>Does it really have to be in your house, or are you just exaggerating to
hammer home the point about Discord?
I suppose it's part exaggeration to make a point, but on the same token, you
are trusting somebody else and there's no real way to see if they hold your
values to heart like the fiasco with Nord VPN or they might get their asses
raided like lavabit. Also how many servers run only free software and there's
a lot of "cloud" providers that claim they're powered by solar, but it's
either fossil fuels or nuclear. Here's what a real solar powered website
looks like. And if the website is down, that's because the battery died ;)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html
As for pidgin, I can see your concerns, but the beauty of free software is
it's fixable.
