Diese aufgeregten +/- 0.x % Wachstumsartikel gehen mir langsam auf die Nerfen. Ist eh im Rahmen der Messungenauigkeit, und dieser Wachstums/Rezessionsfetisch ist absolut kontraproduktiv.

Davon abgesehen ist eine Phase des Nullwachstums ersten nicht schlecht und zweitens ganz normal wenn es gleichzeitig strukturell notwenige Umbauten gibt (in diesem Fall weg vom billigen Gas und Exporten nach China).

The same is true if you use a Matrix server other than Synapse and a client other than Element. If fact these days the spec incompatibilities are way worse on Matrix than on XMPP.

You should try it again instead of spreading very outdated info about it. All major clients and server implementations have more or less feature parity and interoperate fine these days (and yes there are yearly complicance suites for XMPP that are exactly what you are asking for). What you are saying was true 10+ years ago when Matrix didn't even exist yet, and Matrix has very similar issues with different client and server combinations these days.

but God is it painful to self host an xmpp server

You are in for a world of pain regarding Matrix if you think xmpp is painful to host. Compared to hosting a Matrix server, XMPP is very pain-free to host. Sure, it takes a slight bit of effort to understand that there are other protocols than HTTP, but beyond that that initial learning curve, XMPP servers are extremely hassle free.

And you must have used extremely outdated clients. All the modern ones (which there are plenty) support replies and reactions etc. ootb. Let me guess, you only tried Pidgin? That client hasn't been updated for xmpp in 15 years or so, and is by far the worst.

This is indeed interesting, but doesn't fix the fundamental issue of banking etc. apps refusing to run on non-stock Android versions.

LibreTranslate is a bit hit or miss depending on the language, but generally speaking it is quite good, but not Deepl level good.

And doesn’t it seem foolish to oppose mass transit even from the selfish car driver standpoint?

City mass transit often comes with the idea to exclude cars from inner city areas, or at least slow them down and use street space for better purposes. Which is why car lobby associations usually oppose them.

If the Solarpunk movement would depend on the success of a Disney movie, it would not be punk or worth supporting 🤷‍♂️

And XMPP (1999).

Can't say much about the other forks, but Sharkey seems quite nice. Also, they recently developed a nice XMPP account integration for it, but it would probably also work with other forks.

And anyone with an ounce of common sense has been saying so during all these 16 years.

It was shitty rags like the Economist that were praising her short sighted economic policies.

Hmm, that doesn't sound like my issue. As soon as I turn on SteamVR the sound goes haywire. I can still use other headphones fine without any issue, but the built in ones have distorted sound with SteamVR running (but not when I turn that off).