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Let's see how long it takes for this one to get discredited too.

Should you quit smoking even though you've already been smoking for 7 years?

Better to not have started smoking, but still good to stop now.

The longer you go without giving new data, the less useful your old data will be. 6 months without new data? Not that big of a difference. 6 years without new data? Now that's a big deal.

If you found out that your mechanic had been ripping you off for the last 7 years, would you keep going to them for car repairs just because you'd already lost so much money to them?

It's not just about the practical aspects, it's about the principle. The big corpos make money from selling your data, do you really want to keep helping them make money off you after finding out how they do it?

Naw. You can pick up a modern server with 24+ cores, a few hundred GB of RAM and several TB of storage for for half that or less.

VPS are more expensive, but still not that expensive. Maybe for some of the big player garbage like Azure, but not smaller players like Linode.

$2000 a month? Not sure what kind of workload you're thinking of. You can run an instance with several thousand users with pretty minimal hardware.

Decentralization is a matter of structure. There is no central "federation" that you speak of that can blacklist you. Getting defederated from an instance isn't a collective descision, it's up to the individual server owners to decide.

And the odds that you work hard to build a server up and then find yourself defenderated by all major instances is incredibly small. Normally indicates that the server is actually a pretty toxic.

Lol, imagine grabbing your customer's head, blasting a massive fart in their face, and then trying to say, "Just kidding! Just kidding!" when they get pissed off and leave.

Unity can get fugged.

Love it! Bleed the scum!

Been solid so far!

Yeah, I message one of my friends who has stock Android and stock Signal.

I've been using Molly on my GrapheneOS phone for about a year. It's been pretty great so far.

Been using Jellyfin for about a year, love it. I watch movies and TV shows with my spouse, and listen to my music collection on the go with Finamp.

Works great on desktop Linux, GrapheneOS, and my Steam Deck.

Install GrapheneOS on it and it will be. Remember, security and privacy are two different things. You can be very secure without being private, and you can be very private without being secure.

Google Pixels by default are pretty secure, but not private, at least not to Google.

Some of these Anti-piracy advocates already wiped their brains years ago lol.