After some brief googling, it seems like this guy is a right wing conspiracy theorist. Is there any other source for this information?

Are you sure the hard drive is ok?

Firefox is not “basically Safari” on macOS, that is only true on mobile.

Foobar2000 is the true modern day Winamp.

That’s probably true, it seems to grow and shrink with Twitter controversies.

What’s the source here? Why is this just a screenshot?

Plus Memmy is out on the App Store! Doesn’t help OP of course.

The good thing is the corporate overlords have no control over other instances, except to defederate from them

It's mostly better than twitter, in that it actually functions reasonably well, and it's obviously considerably worse than Mastodon (especially compared to the Ivory app)

• The biggest downside is the timeline seems to show a mixture of accounts you follow and other accounts, seemingly suggested accounts that it thinks you might want to follow. I can't see any way to only see posts from accounts you follow.
• The timeline isn't chronological and I can't see a way to make it chronological
• You can't edit posts

You do get a dedicated username and password for OpenVPN.

For a big instance, Hot sorting seems to work pretty well. Otherwise Top Day is probably a better choice.

Jellyfin is so good now. I used to use Plex but I have no need for it now at all.