IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

It’s called SMF I think.

I was the cool guy with all the chats in one place: Pidgin.

At this point Microsoft could use the .odf standard and people won’t notice that and they will be using MSOffice anyways.

Only a fraction of us would use LO or OO or anything compatible.

They even use System 76 hardware.

Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.

I will be able to follow and see friends’ posts and sports teams’ posts through Mastodon without needing a Meta account nor install their shitty apps.

All I posted via fediverse is public already, traveling into some obscure instances, so I don’t care if Meta uses or shares my public posts.

That screen looks sexy