one Location for dozen of rss feeds instead of looking up each individual. alternative is of course setting up the feeds on the client computer, but that works only nice if you use it only from one device (e.g. read history sync).

furthermore i prefer to have such set ups on a server with backups, so if e.g. my phone gets lost i don’t need to find back all those urls.

the last point are just the current status. there are various approaches to solve those issues, which could be explored more.

one examples that comes to mind is ethanol from algae, which live in salty water. i remember seeing a documentary about it, staying that you could just place them in big tanks in the desert. there they wouldn’t compete with food for land.

I’m not saying that this example solves everything, just that there could definitely be more research.

I’m using matrix for years with my wife and my mom, never really had issues, but maybe my requirements are not that high.

of course you are producing storms if you plaster everything with giant fans!!!

i tried all three for my personal use. so i can’t say much about collaboration aspects. anyway:

• gitlab is old, stable and solid. and it eats half of your servers resources.
• gitea and forgeji are for me equal in experience, which is makes sense, as one being a fork of the other. i haven’t had any issues with anything, from setting up, using openid as auth method, to ssh passthrough.
• eventually i settled now on forgejo, simply for ideology reasons. it’s heavily developed, so things might change. but they have this nice attitude to not release a latest tag for docker. so you can’t accidentally update to a breaking change. had this issue with some other programs, which i spun up to quickly.
• looking forward to federation feature on forgejo!