Do you remember/are at liberty to elaborate on the reasoning and course of events at the time that lead to defederating?

It’s a secret nefarious feature to keep you sucked in, just like how there’s no clocks in casino’s :p

Wasn’t XMPP EEE’d by Google? Not to say that Meta is any better of course

Lots of instances are waiting for 0.18.1 to be released, which will bring back captchas, which got removed in 0.18.0. The devs pushed out 0.18.0 to fix a bunch of annoying bugs and to make their api more sustainable (http vs websockets), but changing api technologies meant that captchas needed to be entirely reimplemented. They didn’t want to wait for that to push the bug fixes and the new api, hence why you’re seeing the discrepancy. The new jerboa app using the new api got pushed together with the new api, but isn’t compatible with the 0.17.4 version

I’d say it depends entirely on your mindset. I’ve been enjoying playing it casually. There’s both a ranked and unranked mode, but even in the ranked mode on lower ranks it’s pretty fun to just mess about. It does require you not to focus on chasing rank

CS:GO is free to play and about to get a big update/overhaul into CS2. It’s a valve game so it’s bound to work great on steam deck