I can only approve of people paying for services they use. It isn't free to run. But there are several things to consider:

• $1/year is very low, transaction fees for accepting that amount of money are high
• It's a low price for successful bots
• Doesn't remove ads (take money from subscribers or advertisers, not both, also print media)
• Doesn't give you better control over your experience. The paying customer should be the one being listened to
• This is Elon Musk's twitter we're talking about, how long until he changes his mind again?

Another surge on mastodon? Countries, cities, public organisations should put up their own mastodon like EU, BBC and Germany have.

Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.

https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.

• Flatness. UI controls need to be recognizable.
• Theming/styling. A button should look like button.
• Lack of menus. Discoverability is poor if you don't have a list of things in an obvious place.
• Gestures. Lack of discoverability.
• Information density. I don't care about huge margins and filler pictures. Content shouldn't be crammed, but space should be used efficiently.
• Mobile first. Especially if mobile use is only a fraction of actual use. Or maybe even if it is the majority of users, but not majority of use (operations, hours).
• Simplicity. Make simple things simple, but hard things possible. Removing features can make your software useless.

Sweden is a monarchy, they have a king, not a president. But in this case it seems to be the prime minister

zram or a cloud instance with more ram https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

https://joinmatrix.org/guide/matrix-vs-discord/

Riot games forced them to change the name.

ISC license is free software according to gnu https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC

Got bought

2. Matrix is viable. There are https://view.matrix.org and soon https://archive.matrix.org/ for indexing by crawlers
3. https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ isn't quite the same as https://discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ... for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the "explore" feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

cryptpad si quite good

Only posts? I like tags in slashdot/slashcode for moderation.