@mr_penguin there are a number of factors to avoid it, but the Europeans love the damn app.
Not sure of an alternative as discord is obviously a no go, matrix groups are typically run by tyrants, etc.
Options are getting thinner it seems and no signs of improving.
Always irc for the time being albeit the only libertarian channel I've found has had about 3 messages in a week. Trying my damnedest to get off of X altogether as I don't trust nor care for it being "just like wechat". This is a good alternative but finding accounts that are worth following seems kinda rare.
Is what it is.
I say bring back forums and blogs, forums on trusted servers and self-hosted blogs.
Rolling releases are simply for people with no lives. Get busy for 3 weeks and forget to update and magically you're in dependency hell with a bricked system.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard" - H.L. MenckenDnB / Jungle DJ, Vaping Advocate, not a doctrine guy, open source software and voluntarism.