There are “servers” on Matrix. They are called communities

Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: https://matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/

I’ve never actually used them but in 5 minutes of googling I found ulule. They are based in France and seem to fulfill your requirements.

There is also wemakeit, a Swiss platform targeted specifically at nonprofits. I’ve never used them either, so I can’t tell you how well they work.

The selection prompt exist. It’s just implemented in a way that’s less than ideal. On first start a popup appears informing you about the existence of other UI layouts.

There are just two problems with it:

1. you can’t actually set the UI in the pop-up. Instead you have to click a link in the pop-up which takes you to the corresponding settings page.
2. the prompt shows up after the UI has already loaded. So it doesn’t read as helpful at first glance. To most people, it seems to be an annoying pop-up that keeps you from accessing the app, that you can already clearly see in the background, instead. So they close it without reading it.

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That’s how you get a Boing

https://steadyhq.com/en/ is a German alternative to patreon.

BioNTech, the German company that actually developed the Pfizer Covid vaccine, has a bunch of open job listings. So yes, they have a need for people with that skill set. Most of the jobs seem to require German language skills, but not all of them.

And if the most famous German biotech startup is looking for people, then there are bound to be even more lesser known companies also searching.

I agree. On social media they posted this:

Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.

We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, because we’re always ready for a good deal.

But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures and protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion.

We will focus on the 83% of global trade beyond the US.

Europe stands together for our businesses and with our businesses for all Europeans in the EU and beyond.

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114297268233791229

Replacement with a different stability.

As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)

Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It’s similar to their position on free speech.

To put it an other way: They want to be a bully.

Wero is great for what it does (sending money to other people) and it’s going to gain the functionality needed for online commerce.

But that only covers half the functionality provided by Visa and MasterCard. You also need the functionality to pay at a restaurant or in the supermarket. You know, the card part of MasterCard?

Some European countries have their own debit card system (here in Germany for example giropay) but once you cross the border that stops working. Which is why those cards are usually co-badged with one of the big networks to act as a fallback. That’s where the EU should act to ensure that the fallback functionality isn’t necessary anymore, at least as long you’re in the Euro-zone.

Her voice? Who are you talking about?

You know that Moxie is a dude, right?

I think this one is Android only, but there is Candle

https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/candle

All the open source alternatives also work on windows. You could try them on your current OS and make the switch to Linux once you’re confident you’ve found a workflow that works for you.

Lightroom: Darktable Photoshop: Gimp (version 3 just released) or Krita Illustrator: Inkscape

One note though: The Windows versions tend to be a bit of an afterthought. Performance can therefore be not as good as the Linux version.

I hate to be the one to break it to you but AIs aren’t actually people. Companies claiming that they are “this close to AGI” doesn’t make it true.

The human brain is an exception to copyright law. Outsourcing your thinking to a machine that doesn’t actually think makes this something different and therefore should be treated differently.

Moneybuster for Android

PayForMe for iOS

Moneybuster for Android PayForMe for iOS

Both apps work for both platforms

If you are selfhosting then there is a plugin for Nextcloud for this. It’s called cospend.

And there is the stand alone project ihatemoney.org. They are France based and offer both a hosted server and for you to operate it yourself

https://fortune.com/2025/01/31/aldi-scrubbed-careers-website-of-all-dei-initiatives/

The Aldi operating in the states under its own name is Süd and the one that owns Trade Joe’s is the northern one

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