Ive been planning, and slowly learning about beekeeping for a year, and a couple days ago my neighbour out of nowhere my neighbour said they will keep bees too. Is this something that could possibly have an affect to the bees?

We are spaced apart ~300m

This is probably asked here a lot so i apologise. Almost every day i think about siting down, and having a nice read, but i just dont know how to find the books i like.

I'm looking to explore what the open source world has to offer, I'm big in using FOSS programs and wanted to see what else there is.

I decided to lookup some history of my local area, and i was reading a whole page until i noticed some things didnt add up. It was stating some obscure things such as it (the local place) has it's own currency and whatnot.

I decided to check the sources they used, and i noticed it was some stupid wiki page made by Grok.

Sure i can't fact chek all of it, small point's were correct but for crying out loud. Please.

I've probably made 4 account's on different providers and all of them are always either not recognized on my clients, or always in a "connecting" loop. I'm working on creating my own server using Openfire but that's going to be a while since I can get everything setup and ready.

What providers are there that are stable and recommended to use? I'm sorry if this gets asked a lot, I'm just wondering if this is a common XMPP issue or if it's an issue on my side.

Update: It seems that the issue was that i had some sort of aggressive DNS block list active on my VPN by accident, disabiling that seems to have fixed everything.

Ive been using Signal for a while but always had a thought that i should move away from it. Ive looked into XMPP and had some questions.

Does the provider matter, what one?

Once i join a provider, am i restricted to their groups only, or can i join groups outside it?

Can i private/direct message users without setting up my own private provider?

Im sorry if this is not the place to ask, or if my questions are dumb, im just confused how the whole XMPP thing works since i dont have anyone to test it out. Thank you.

Yes im aware that my search engine choice is not the best option.

I roughly know how world maps were created, but detailed local maps of towns and forest's are something I find interesting. What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?