It also appears that the first post has to tag the community, so tagging on a reply does not work. Good enough though.

I wonder if it will be analogous to the situation in China. Is an iMessage conversation safe if one party is based in China and their data is stored in data centers there?

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FluffyChat is a decent alternative client (with E2EE support). If you don’t need e2ee there’s actually a healthy number of clients, and some of them do seem to have it on their roadmap

https://matrix.org/clients/

Point taken on server implementations though

Exciting! l should look at moving by blog from GitLab Pages

For browser I’d just use Firefox with the Facebook Container extension

I heartily recommend Frost too. one downside: if you want to chat with people in EU and UK, FB limits some features (not sure what) for privacy compliance and such chats don’t show up in Frost

it’s been reported several times, eg

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

I’m still supporting Mozilla myself, for now, for lack of a batter alternative, but am increasingly on the ‘no client-side JS’ / ‘let’s try Gemini’ side; the web is getting too complex for alternative browser engines

yeah, I plan to use a PinePhone as my secondary device and start helping port apps to it, but will probably use either Android or iOS for some time.

Alas, my next phone might be an iPhone – though I’ll try to steer clear from Apple services.

I currently use a Pixel as my daily driver, but I want to help contribute to OpenStreetMap and there’s no OSM navigation app with Android Auto support, whereas MAPS.ME is open source, uses OSM and supports CarPlay. I wonder if it’s technically more difficult to get Android Auto support or it’s Google ironically abusing their gatekeeper role here (normally Apple is the one accused of doing that with the App Store).