Billionaires don’t need AI to destroy humanity and our civilization, but they sure will it use that as well.

Most of those “state-owned” enterprises are state-owned only in the sense that the majority shareholder is the state. They operate as private companies.

How is NextCloud a centralized walled garden?

“leftwing”.

While the principles here are important, calling these outlets leftwing is a stretch.

It works, but the UI is dated and cumbersome (especially Calc). And you need Collabra to work with others online.

My main gripe though is what it isn’t. Remember how Firefox outcompeted Internet Explorer with a better user experience. An open source office suite should do the same. LibreOffices main focus seems to be an option for people switching to open source who wants to keep on working on their MS Office documents. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t make people switch to open source software by itself.

threads was one of the things I was missing from Element, why does it make it worse? We’ve been having threaded discussions since USENET, it’s good feature.

Something like what happens in The Disposseed (on Anarres)