Does it even make sense to keep playing with a Manjaro VM or just go straight Arch?

That sounds like Logo

I still have a bunch of zip disks that I want to examine. Think they’re still good?

hmm, I wonder if there’s a way for me to host my own matrix server and do the bridging myself, like a docker container or something.

Where would be a good starting point to check out a list of instances with these bridges? And how safe are they?

Maybe I’m biased but I feel like the soul of Reddit as a social media site is much more dependent on its users than other sites. Reddit will continue on but if the company keeps undervaluing its users and moderators (and everything points to that), it will end up being as vapid and pointless as people are saying Threads is now.

are there apps that are letting users create their own API keys and plug them in?

Twitter was an open canvas at first, that’s what made it appealing. The users shaped it and norms formed. Then the bad men came.

I wonder if Google prioritized recrawling all those Twitter links.