I am not as convinced that it is a golden goose. Stock markets are insane right now but I really doubt a publicly traded company can really survive with a single chat app (which can easily be copied btw). Same issue that zoom has. You either make some smart purchases or you die in the next ~2 years. Either way - would be interesting to see what happens and discuss it on matrix and the fediverse.
What do you mean "of age"? Old people? I just set up element for my parents and tell them - I will call you on here. They don't care where and what it is and they communicate with their friends mostly by phone or on Facebook. I don't expect those to migrate to matrix or even signal at this point, so I wouldn't bother with
6 open source alternatives for Google Calendar - Calendars are the easiest service to migrate elsewhere
6 open source alternatives for Google Calendar - Calendars are the easiest service to migrate elsewhere
6 open source alternatives for Google Calendar - Calendars are the easiest service to migrate elsewhere
Tasks.org (from fdroid) works with WebDAV for free (you should still donate though if you adopt it). Have been using it for the better part of the past two years for calendar, tasks, contacts. For notes and documents - Nextcloud. Haven't had one issue. Don't know what OS you use - but CalyxOS have a feature where you can backup all your apps to nextcloud/local storage and restore them on a new phone .
6 open source alternatives for Google Calendar - Calendars are the easiest service to migrate elsewhere
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True but also they could actually finance themselves from donations (not applicable to China obviously, for the most part)