Yes, I do, so does my family.
What's wrong with XMPP? Genuinely asking.
Okay, but where's any of the Fediverse?
Syncthing seems to be for you. A little setting up is needed, nothing too advanced IMO. It works on LAN / WiFi and syncs your shared folder to another device. No cloud, no middlemen, not even internet (when it is set up) needed.
I'm always missing Conversations/Dino (XMPP) from chat apps. It does (almost) everything Signal/Matrix does but without a phone number and it can run on a potato.
A fair warning: FIDESZ fucked with Magyar and his wife, so he fucked FIDESZ big time.
I'm in the same boat, except I've never felt any kind of remorse. How often do you feel it?
I was a fan of X-plore too. :D
Good. Good. Fossify has its own apps for clock, sms, phone and gallery. There's Ghost Commander for file management (its like Total Commander for Android) or Material Files on F-Droid. Alsi, I use Graphene's camera app. How do you do syncing or cloud storage?
Once R brcomes unusable without this, I'm leaving it completely. I just hope many will do the same.
Cybernetics. I like the theme too much to care about the meta. Besides, nothing beats Overtuned + MegaCorp + Xenophile + Meterialist + Egalitarian + Augmentation Bazaars + Worker Coop. Overtuned gives automod at day 1, ascend ASAP for the second, rush Ecumenopoli and biology for the third automod trait. I liked Psionics much more before Shadows of the Shroud.
Kvaesitso and Lawnchair are launchers that get recommended a lot. I prefer LaunchTime. Unexpected Keyboard is my favorite, minimalist but great. All of these are on F-Droid,