Does it even make sense to keep playing with a Manjaro VM or just go straight Arch?

Yes but most of them are off lol

That sounds like Logo

I still have a bunch of zip disks that I want to examine. Think they’re still good?

hmm, I wonder if there’s a way for me to host my own matrix server and do the bridging myself, like a docker container or something.

Where would be a good starting point to check out a list of instances with these bridges? And how safe are they?

It makes me think that the third party thing was the original intent and the data scraping was the cover. Also u/spez kinda said as much with his Elon love fest.

are there apps that are letting users create their own API keys and plug them in?

I wonder if Google prioritized recrawling all those Twitter links.