Qtox should work? It’s not a very good chat software and a bit cumbersome, but it allows direct file transfers.

Sad to see 'cause it feels like we need Pirate Parties more than ever.

Considering it has more (and likely more active) moderators, I’d personally strongly advocate migration over to !neovim@programming.dev. The reason I made this one was because I’m even more passionate about this editor than anything I edit with it and had just grown impatient at no one prepping up a community for it. There’s value in being a member of both if one instance suffers outage, but I agree posting in more than one place hurts the community. Maybe I should make a pinned post about it, asking for input.

Skipping straight to “extinguish”.

I get what you mean, but honestly I’d click through their affiliate links on purpose anyway. No ads, no invasive trackers, just Linux news and discussion.

The map system is so good for this. If you manage to get the bewildering learning curve, it’s so nice to come home from work and spin a few maps to relax and pick up loot. PoE is so overwhelmingly easily my choice as well.

The Communism part seems to be mostly a red herring, it’s added flavor at most. The central core tenet seems to be an anti-American standpoint with whatever authoritarian/dictatorial regime that fits it. Seemingly regardless of political alignments, and regardless of contradicting views from what they claim to represent.

They often purport themselves anti-fascist, but this can be viewed much the same way as the DDR called their Berlin Wall an “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”.