The taiwan thing is literally just a social pretense to allow mainland china to “save face”. There are extremists that actually want the taiwanese government to rule all of mainland china, but that’s just not the popular opinion.

Well it’s true that saying taiwan is not china is a bit funny though, but in context anyone with basic readinf comprehension should know what is meant.

You can just buy your own domain and put the relevant dns records to forward it to any service that supports it (generally costs some money though). Then if the service enshittifies you just need to change the dns records. No need to go the full selfhosting route.

I use tuta for that, haven’t had issues so far and also don’t think I’ve heard anything bad.

Data ownership and privacy absolutely, within an enterprise license. They very deliberately make you pay for that.

While it’s hard to prove they’re not just breaching contract and training on it anyway, I don’t think it makes sense to assume they are.

Most of my friends discord is my only way of communication lol

I also organize tournaments for a small community sometimes and I’m not getting all those people to install something else that does the same job but probably worse.

This works only if you do not have many internet friends. I also really don’t have an issue with discord usability wise and their ultimate implementation of age verification is practical even if I disagree with doing it at all (but it seems to be politically popular sadly).