It’s also a laundering scheme to make free software proprietary.

Ah. I usually conflate the two under “internet archive”.

What’s the second?

Tbh Kodi is just kinda a hassle in general. I much prefer Jellyfin and will probably ditch Kodi in favor of it in the near future.

So… Most of the web?

Especially at such a short EOL date.

I would imagine you are in the vast minority :)

Addiction, I suppose.

Well said. Contempt for the average user makes it easy to forget one’s humanity.

People say that? How odd, that seems like a totally different world. I don’t agree with that sentiment! One is a general purpose communications protocol, the other is a community. As with any community, one can pick and choose who they fraternize with.

That’s the point of federation! Choosing who you want in your community.

XMPP still exists - and I use it for chatting with one person. Nobody I know uses it. Techies I know use IRC and, more recently, Matrix. Or discord, disappointingly enough.

And I mention techies because the rest of the world is just happy with WhatsApp/Messenger/Slack et al.

What I’m getting at is that XMPP feels pretty dead in my experience. But who knows, maybe it would be in this same position regardless of Google like you allude to.

Step back, take a breath, and focus your beliefs into more succinct and tactful displays. And lose the passive aggressive judgment rhetoric.

Big pickups are nasty af. Actually useful pickups are sexy.

A little more tact could bring your comments a long way, my friend.

I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.