You can play multiplayer games with LAN support together for free using a program like Hamachi.
Use a free VPN (https://riseup.net/en/vpn) to download the game for free. I usually go for fitgirl repacks if they're available. Then you and your buddies can connect to the same 'server' using Hamachi and play together.
I recommend doing this with the new Halo collection and Baldur's Gate 3 so you can see it's possible, even with new and advanced games.
You should use Friendica as a replacement for facebook.
I don't really see a point in something like Instagram, considering you can just share pictures on facebook already, but Pixelfed is the logical replacement for it.
That's unfortunately a dealbreaker for me. I have a free phone from some company I've never heard of and I don't plan on buying a new one. Hopefully we will see more progress on mobile operating systems in the coming years.
I wish we lived in a society where we made fun of idiots for getting ripped off. There's just so many of them though that it's seen as normal and we're the weird ones if we don't go along with it.
Yeah, the soccer industry is full of some of the scummiest people on earth.
There's a lot of money to be made off of idiots who don't know any better for doing pretty much nothing.