That’s actually what they’re doing. They built their own messenger based on Matrix.

You might want to watch the latest “Rare Earth” video “I Overheard a Secret Chinese Meeting in Micronesia on Vacation” for some context what’s going on in this region…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXCsemt-js

Same here! Before that, I used initially Netscape, then Konqueror on KDE, whose engine KHTML became the foundation of Safari/Webkit and thereby 90% of all browsers nowadays and only started in 2006 or so to exclusively use Firefox.

zram did wonders back then to the performance/usability of Palm/HP webOS devices, especially the 1st Pre.

Especially the one called “Capitalism”, which has now more followers than any other religion in the world!

…but Merkel opening the floodgates to mass migration

Please don’t replicate right-wing talking points. She didn’t open any gates - she just decided (contrary to all countries around us) to not suddenly shut our open borders when millions fled war and were seeking for refuge.

She basically did, what she always excelled at: sitting it out and doing nothing, then selling it as her political success. Active change was her constant enemy.