Yes, I agree.

I think that’s fair, maybe I should have said efforts like Matrix.

But I’d also view a singular commercial company’s no-cost product as not being a long term bet on privacy/anonymity.

I don’t trust Signal. Haven’t used it since it went down when people and capitol rioters fled WhatsApp and signed up. My understanding is it’s a brittle centralized system just like WhatsApp.

AND back when I did use it, the app had dark patterns that included spamming all your contacts when you set up the app.

Matrix still needs work, but it is the future in this space.

OpenStreetMap: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

I use both and rarely ever make use of file storage on nextcloud. Syncthing is awesome software.

Nope. That website’s toxicity was one of the largest hurdles to learning to write software for me.