Open registration if and only if you are ready for routine maintenance, creating cleaning schedules, applying spam filters, balancing resource usage, etc. Not to discourage, but for you to know what you really want. If server is for friends and family, just leave registration closed.

My recommendation, as someone hosting a public server is to first host the server for yourself, play for some time, join some rooms on other servers, then invite friends, then if you feel ready and willing open it to the public.

Matrix Authentication Service is good to have, as you can use next-gen Element X which is most polished app as for now.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652

According to this support page only older iOS versions would need additional app. So I can assume Apple and Google collaborate on that and Apple added the “feature” in newer iOS already.

Requiring Google Play and Google account to download and is proprietary, I’ll pass.

Sometimes there isn’t anyone wanting to hear you.

Spyware can alter the database of accessed files.

I would love to use this superior as you say IPv4 addressing technology, but newsflash we have ran out of it.

Before you realize data on the disc is encoded digitally.

I have Tuxedo laptop (they get them the same ODMs as Slimbook) and love it but if it ever drops on the floor with significant imparct I no longer have a laptop. All I could do is send it back for official repair to Germany and prey, while if I got Framework I could buy parts myself.

Spreadsheet

requiring, or strongly encouraging, all young adults

Half of the all is very far away from “all”.

It is just a private company doing the verification solely, orb is just a gimmick to look like actual thing.

Using it on all my devices. It’s there, globally and working. What feels constantly away is getting rid of IPv4.

Don’t you have 5€/mo even? Because that what Hetzner VPS costs. Or a little spare for used Raspberry Pi 4?