Amateurs, I'm an AI artisté and demand big bucks for "my" art pieces. Also fuck everybody who made all the stuff that the AI stole from.

You sound like a frustrated maintainer, have you considered doing what I do with open source projects using discord as their means of communication?

Don't take it seriously and move on.

Of course. Open source clients on open source operating systems connecting to self-hosted servers on private infrastructure with open source software.

As soon as open source hardware is practically available I'm never using proprietary processors ever again, I don't care if they're "underpowered" by computational power - All backdoored CPU's are underpowered by my standards to verified non-backdoored CPU's.

Maybe not everything

Laughs in hardcore open source

Open source search engine SearcxNG works very well with Lemmy posts and comments.

as relatively easily and cheaply

You pay more when using these types of software than if you hired an engineer to set up a complete forum ecosystem. Just not with money.

In the world of today the crustyness of dolan and spooderman is more relevant than ever!

Par Avion. I'll do homing pigeons before using discord.

Auto-saving is the insurance against manually saving failing, which is the insurance against the computer or program failing.

It's insurances all the way down, yet I'm still let down when versioning overwrites my changes.