Their reasoning is sound imo and shows that they are actually interested in maintaining privacy, as they are preemptively cancelling this as it only opens the door. It doesn’t change that they need to find a way to replace it that doesn’t do this though, probably exclusively on-device.

Yeah, they support taxes. They just only support other people/organizations/companies paying them, not Microsoft.

I’m on iOS using mlem, which has so far been the best app I’ve used for it. It used to be somewhat unpolished and lacking, but in the latest update most of the bugs have been ironed out and the image viewer is in existence. Lemma also looks really promising although it’s still in early early development. For mastodon I use ice cubes although for my uses of mastodon I might just download an rss reader.