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Are you sure this is merely mildly infuriating?

Have you considered setting up a virtual drive throuh RCLONE and use encrypted cloud storage?

tchncs.de runs their own lemmy server along with many other services, at least they seem serious.

There are many different matrix IM clients, both for desktop and mobile. I’m guessing you’re thinking of Element, the defacto standard client from the makers of the matrix platform? Some of them are more tailored to the “average user”, like FluffyChat and SchchzshchildyChat (???)

IMO the variety of clients only make it more confusing for people unfamiliar with the ecosystem.

On top of that there’s different instances. It’s about as messy as the ActivityPub-based fediverse.

Even if you buy five tablets, won’t you still have only three desktops?

I like Navidrome, it also supports the… Subsonic(?) protocol so one can use dedicated apps with on-device caching, which is nice for mobile devices without unlimited data.