Mastodon was very depressing for me, this follower centric self presentation stuff is super not my style, it don't want it to be about me, I most likely suck but I say smart things some times, so I want it to be about the stuff I say.
Plus I don't mind being downvoted into oblivion. I actually think that this can be a good thing. It means that there was something at least controversial about what I posted so I might be wrong or have to argue better.
Lastly, mastodon is too much safe space and filter bubble. I want to read things from people that I disagree with and I want to argue with them in good faith. When I tried this on mastodon, I got misquoted, blocked, harassed... You name it.
get a domain (third level from here for free for starters) and ssl certs from lets encrypt. IP Addresses and no or self signed ssl will look super shady for any not coputer savy person and is unsafe (at least no ssl is)
What can you do in C without including stdio.h? Almost nothing. Far less than with python. Ignoring built in libraries is no fair criticism imo. Also all that you listed can be done without importing anything, just with oop (yes, in a turing complete language you can already anything but I meant it is not even that complicated to implement these things with basic python)
I think it is an mediocre language if you're into compiter science or dev, but for scientific programming and simple tasks it is great. So for some it is the best beginner programming language.
Also just coincidence that all those also shared many other negative aspects I pointed out? And what about all of them being in a disadvantage from the start? When Marx envisioned communism, he explictly stated that it is something industrialised societies should try to achieve.
And keep in mind that they always stood against the "free" world trying to shut them down. I mean look at Cuba and Venezuela, a large portion of their problems is the free world trying to free them with sanctions, coup attempts or full blown parakilutary operations.
East Germany is recovering from the massive theft the Treuhand did in the early ninties after the 1:1 Währungsreform every honest and sensible scientist warned about. The Wiedervereinigung destroyed East Germanys economy.
Though you're right that the Planwirtschaft in the GDR sucked big time,but not because it was planned. Rather it was a combination of different reasons, the ideologically driven lies in the managment, inability of the people who made the plans and the hidden classes in society. Not to mention the shit ton of money that went into surveillance. A really classless society with a planned economy based on efficieny would perform vastly different.
A project that is seperated in different files is as difficult as in C(++), Java or Rust. Regarding the itendation I agree, but that's personal preference. What 'vanilla' stuff can't you do without libs?
I use different ones. Got an legit dpmain which I also use locally (with ssl certificates) and in my local network my server listens to SERVI. Just SERVI.
Bandcamp isn't open source but pretty fair IMO and you can stream via Newpipe or Kodi plugin. It is not a direct alternative but good enough. Using Newpipe you can also access everything on Youtube Music.
I got gift cards for a shady prepaid credit card company that would have cost me at least a little more than the cards were "worth" due to fees and hidden bs in their TOS. Worst case they would have costed me around ten times their "worth".
Because config of a window manager is on a per user basis, usually