Was this title intentionally written in a way as to make people think he had died?

Yes, it is still OK to use those services. The law is aimed at the messaging/social media businesses, not individuals, and is vague enough that they won't have to do anything around their E2EE until there is viable technology available to square the circle of allowing for the checking of illegal abuse content while not functionally destroying E2EE. So potentially never.

I'd been on the waitlist for more than a year, but finally on. I downloaded the app a little while ago to keep tabs on my progress through the waitlist and they definitely have been speeding up the process of getting people onboarded to be fair.

SlimSocial is the only one that I've found that still works, though might require some messing with the settings to get Messenger working through it.

Matrix bridges are an option for those willing to put the effort in and self-host. I might get round to doing this at some point.

It's not open-source, but I've settled on Beeper for the time being as the simplest option to get all my messages in one place.

I've currently settled with Liftoff. I got very used to Jerboa and was perfectly happy with it, but the last few updates broke it to the point of unusability for me.

Liftoff isn't perfect, though its pretty good. My biggest gripe is that as far as I can tell there's no button to go straight to the top of the feed, which is really annoying when you've been scrolling for ages and have to scroll all the way back up. Hopefully that will be added soon.

Farscape. I'm pretty happy with that!

I seem to be unable to change my feed view or sort type either using the drop down at the top or the menu, and changing it in the settings seem to just revert back to all/active as soon as I press save. (Have checked using an account on an 0.18.0 instance.)

Nor does it take into account that people's views can change, and an outright ban simply for being part of the community only isolates them from the less batshit communities that may help them actually move away from it.

This is genuinely very cool and has made me nostalgic enough to consider trying to get hold of one for my Game Boy! I only wish I had some photography talent, as it's quite a feat to take good photos with something so technically rubbish.

I've been using Tasks.org which syncs with my Nextcloud perfectly. Had tried quite a few before settling on this as the best option.

Honestly I probably don't make use the other stuff that comes in the bundle as much as I should, mostly just Nebula and sometimes CuriosityStream. I pay half the normal price, so less than $30 annually at the moment, as got it when they were doing a deal. For the discounted price I consider it worth it for Nebula alone though.

I use it. Have had a subscription for a few years as part of a CuriosityStream bundle. There's quite a few creators on there I enjoy and will usually watch through Nebula rather than YouTube as I know it supports them more directly. Also enjoyed just browsing and have found some really good content that way from people I didn't previously know about from YouTube.

It's definitely far more select with its creators than YouTube, and I don't see it as a replacement for it, but depending on someone's financial situation, I think giving it a go for a month if you're unsure is probably worth a shot.