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ISC license is free software according to gnu https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC

Got bought

2. Matrix is viable. There are https://view.matrix.org and soon https://archive.matrix.org/ for indexing by crawlers
3. https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ isn't quite the same as https://discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ... for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the "explore" feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

cryptpad si quite good

Only posts? I like tags in slashdot/slashcode for moderation.

Gandi is no longer a good choice

Thanks to sliding sync this is very snappy compared to old element.

Element X is built on the rust SDK which should support multiple accounts. https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/discussions/1832

I see. I'm an old fart and couldn't care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.

what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?

• Memory of Water
• Jean le Flambeur series

Here are some:

• Bad Blood - about Theranos
• Evicted - low-income housing
• They Called Us Enemy - Immigrants
• Factfulness - statistics
• Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
• Masters of Doom - PC gaming, id Software
• The Cuckoo's Egg - fighting early computer crime
• The Initiates - Winemaking
• If it's Smart, it's Vulnerable - Computer security
• Sid Meier's Memoir - Computer games
• How to Invent Everything - Building up modern tech starting from nothing
• The Everything Store - Amazon.com
• The Soul of a New Machine - Pulitzer winner, minicomputers in the late 70's
• Freakonomics - Economics
• How Bad are Bananas - Greenhouse gas emissions and climate catastophe
• Laserwriter II - 90's computer repair in NYC
• A Life on our Planet - Climate catastrophe
• The Goal - Business management comic

I've read some old DOS manual. And several Linux books back from the days when Linux came on CDs alongside books.