Yeah. A good thick slice of Anarchism might be what we need to reset things.

That is Anarchism, with capital “A”, the anti-authority ideology.

I AM THE KING!

A good king doesn’t need to remind his subjects he is king.

The Fallout style corporate dystopia isn’t coming in the future. It’s today. It’s right now.

BREAKING NEWS!!

Evil company known for being evil is caught doing evil things!

I downvoted you out of principle. No religious leader is a good replacement, and should never be considered better than what came before.

One of my uncle shared the same sentiments with me; they want Iran invaded because they hope it’ll get rid of the regime.

I told him that no country capable of invading Iran will do so in the interest of Iranians. He said he knows, but he sees no alternative.

Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

Are we surprised?