RFF will be missed! For Fedi music you could try https://theindiebeat.fm/ … or this one has mixes rather than radio https://www.audiointerface.org/

I think it won’t be abandoned, but we have to find better ways of filtering out AI slop. There are already quite a few search engines with curated networks of personal sites.

Another option is we switch to a different protocol. But internet style networks are too useful for human communication to abandon, I think.

This is the answer! Most people will not ever install a new operating system.

To be honest, I’m Irish and it seems to me colonialism influences a country to cling to their cultural practices more fiercely. Couple that with massive inter-generational trauma. In the case of Ireland, unfortunately that meant we had a brutal theocracy for decades after the British left.

I think the only reason Ireland is in any way more progressive now is because they let us join the European Union, and they gave us money!

Anyway I think you sound like a great person and the best of luck. I emigrated myself too, to England ironically…

Self hosted ‘The Lounge’ is great.