Wouldn't it be neat if YouTube had reasonable competition? You know, so when YouTube adds a five-second delay as a strange style of punishment, a different platform would look more attractive?
Maybe you want to migrate a PostgreSQL database to a newer version without starting PostgreSQL server.
Maybe you installed OpenSSH but don't want sshd to run yet, because you haven't hardened the configs.
Maybe you installed Nginx as a part of a migration from Apache httpd, but httpd is already running.
In addition, Arch hardly configures your system in a custom way, too. When you install a package, most of the time, it responds with "here are the files from the developer that you asked for."
If you don't like this philosophy, then your feelings are perfectly valid, and this is a textbook example of why different distributions exist 👍
There actually was a Google Chat before. It used XMPP. They're even recycling names, cause they're starting to run out of names from all the past services they killed.
There was an explosion of users when Reddit went Monopoly Man over their API. It makes sense that usage will waver a bit for a while, and that not all people will stick. Lemmy is like Reddit, but it doesn't have full parity to it.
Look up WebAssembly.