The replies illustrate the problem nicely.

There’s communities I like on .world, so I just ban the most insufferable users and comms.

I’m really happy with Posteo. It costs like 1€/month.

I just got too tall too fast. Grew right up through my hair!

There’s endless arguments about everything if you look for them. My advice is to really consider what you feel to be your “guiding principles” and use them to well, guide you. This gives you a kind of framework to evaluate arguments you encounter, and can keep you grounded when you might otherwise get overwhelmed.

No, but we are replaying early mid-20th century here.

“Put politics aside and make the world a better place” is a wild sentence lol. As much as you may want to believe otherwise, we aren’t going to code our way out of political problems.

Dope! Can’t wait til there’s packages for it :)

Xylitol.

This blog also has a good post from last year discussing the shortcomings of XMPP and Matrix relative to Signal.

In my town there’s a shop that sells rocks and crystals etc. They also sell sand dollars for $1. That’s right, there’s a 1:1 conversion rate between sand dollars and USD.