Hmm good to note. Thanks!
To get the point since as you've stated your brain is filled.
Here's how I view Apple:
- anti consumer
- anti developer
- anti privacy
- anti right to repair
Are you just looking for an open source Discord front-end? If so you could check out BetterDiscord. Here's a link to their Github https://github.com/BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord
Hey! My glasses are pretty thin, and they only weigh 25 grammes. I just checked!
In all seriousness, I think the best thing you can do is just read and watch whatever is interesting to you. There isn't one place to become "tech savvy", and that in itself is an extremely broad subject. Do you want to know more about web design, machine learning, networking, data centres, etc.? Once you've got that sorted, start by just Searxing (privacy respecting the search engine) and Invidiousing (privacy respecting the YouTube front-end) what you want to know.
Since everyone learns differently and has different preferences, it's really hard to say. Most of what I've learned personally has come from running into problems in my everyday life and trying to fix them. For example, I got fed up with Netflix, so I started out with a small Plex server. After lots of reading, I started hosting my own Jellyfin server, which led me to learn about networking, storage servers, etc. As I previously stated, follow your interests, and you may end up learning about all that "tech-savvy" stuff along the way, which would be great. But there's no point in doing something if you don't find it interesting.
With all that out of the way, if you end up reading all this and kind of have an idea of what direction you'd like to go, please reply below so that either myself or someone else from the community can maybe help nudge you in the right direction.
One idea could simply be to just add the not Facebook at the end something like "Meta(Not Facebook)" although I'm sure someone creative could come up with something better. With that said eventually whatever name ends up sticking, I'm sure will become the norm and people will just get used to it, although its probably best to nip this in the butt before it becomes an issues where the existing users see things one way and new users see another.
It's a Apple product so regardless of the price or product it'll probably be normalized.
I'm not really a fan of Discord, so something else would probably be preferable, but whatever it ends up being, I'd really appreciate it if, whatever it is, I could create an account without an email, or even better, if I could just read what's going on without having to sign into something.