How much work do you think would it be to also create a FOSS backend, maybe utilizing an existing xmpp server for federation?

Where do tractors mainly transport people (or cargo)?

A boat is clearly closer to your definition of a car than a tractor.

By that definition a tractor isn’t a car.

You’re calling me a clown when you don’t even know what a car is?? 🤡

You are making up arbitrary definitions to suit your silly argument. A boat is a form of personalized transport with an ICE engine, a steering wheel and seats, even a windshield etc. so it is clearly a “car” 🤡

And boats are a variety of car if they have an ICE, right? 🤡

You are also arguing in bad faith, because cars are not the same as internal combustion engines. You might be able to argue correctly that tractors replaced farm animals for productive use, but tractors are not cars.

The point is that horses got replaced by trains, trams and bicycles for most people long before cars became widely used.

I know there’s one out there that also provides email (can’t recall which), which is interesting as most people wouldn’t dare.

You probably mean https://disroot.org/

https://snikket.org/ specifically for a small family server. Much lower maintenance and breakages than Matrix and thus less issues with the family.

Apparently not:

We have a no-AI contributions policy. This is because, generally speaking, LLMs generate code that, while may work, is poorly organised and difficult to maintain.

The person that runs the website it is posted on.

That article is highly misleading.

A good response can be found here: https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/

XMPP chat accounts on the same address as Email would be nice.