Your comment reminds me the PeerTube situation. Only one developer was needed to create this YouTube alternative.
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The article mentions it will be better later this year:
Nextcloud Social is available as an alpha version for earlier releases, with an update to Hub 3 coming soon. The team at Nextcloud is working with the community to add new features and give users a way out of the Big Tech sandbox. We will make the updated Nextcloud Social a default part of Nextcloud later this year.
They did an overhaul specifically because of Musk according to their blog:
That is why we began working on Nextcloud Social, to make sure there would be a credible alternative by the time the deal closed.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/no-need-to-trust-musk-we-go-federated-with-nextcloud-social/
You can see and comment Lemmy posts from Mastodon.
Well if he could increase the power a little bit in winter and decrease it a little bit in summer that would be better! 😃
E-mail providers could configure another character for subaddressing, broadly accepted in forms, but they stick to this plus sign sadly.
I think about trying to buy a domain name, and playing with catch-all and ignore rules to avoid spam while creating a custom subaddressing setup on a custom domain. Source: this Mastodon post https://chaos.social/@silmaril/108878671259313909