Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

It’s much harder for the government and bad actors to hide backdoors in open source software than making a deal with a private company

dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

The government and bad actors use this as a strategy to attack their opponents and control public opinion.

Protests crack down on the internet has been going on for quite some time, don’t just blame it on trump but on the whole government and its infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

None of them are good or private

The whole network is de facto centralized on Matrix.org

That’s not true there’s plenty of people using different homeservers

Go ahead and send me your phone number. If you don’t want to do it please provide data that i’m compromised.

Matrix is centralized too in practice

There are plenty of different available homeservers and you can host yours.

It is not. We are on a privacy sub on lemmy, services that require mandatory phone number are far away from been fine to use.

Nope you can’t run chatgpt locally.

Ok spanish pm show us your ID and your home address

If you want arch without any proprietary packages or blobs you can try Parabola

they are screwing it on purpose to make room for their AI

Welcome to lemmy

The vast majority of users want something that simply works, is polished and intuitively usable.

That’s exactly what matrix most popular client Element does.

Which is important but it’s not enough to counteract the amount of basic quality of life stuff that is just absolutely trash garbage on Matrix

The thread is about discord adding ads in their platform, so much of user experience… there’s no such trash on matrix

You don’t need to be a technical user to use matrix you simply don’t have to be closed minded

I still don’t get why people keep defending it.

With microsoft being the most valuated company in the world rest assured that many of the people defending their products are getting paid to do it.

If linux had all these settings on installation everyone would be saying that it’s to hard for normies to install