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

The difficult part is organizing enough people.

Governments work hard in preventing people from organizing. Mass media and centralized socials are directly sponsored by the government.

We need more peer to peer hosting

erdogan is a dictator

Imagine if they were members of the republic party, would only the policies they sponsored matter?

Here’s an interesting comment i found on lemmy about AOC:

https://lemmy.ml/post/26984933/17181848

Having only two parties cycling in power for a century is a sign of corruption and rigging

It’s a sign of corruption and rigging

Personally i believe americans shouldn’t waste their time and resources supporting members of the red and blue party. To me it looks like these two only do PR for the blue party and for twitter.

Your phone number is tied to your identity, there are no reasons to ask it to begin with.

None of them are good or private

Signal is centralized and require a phone number to register, it’s not private at all.

Probably they didn’t change at all but their influence scaled up. Lying to a person or to a million people doesn’t carry the same weight

“countries” are invisible lines draw on a map by someone. Propaganda and lies are a tool used by people to persuade others, free speech and freedom are a natural condition upon which humanity can evolve and prosper.

fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored.

Sounds like USA authorities are stronger than ever. People have been screwed for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures

this was under obama

Sort of agree but look how much he’s done for Linux gaming.

Let’s not forget that Steam is a proprietary third party launcher that doesn’t share any values with linux. Valve built the apple store of videogames, while they are now moving in a better direction keep in mind that they are part of the problem.

We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform. Steam is closed as much as reddit is.

Promoting gambling to kids and use the profits to buy multiple mega yachts is peak scum.

Yes, their profits.

Minecraft is yet another example of no expections. Minecraft is proprietary and they never lowered the price even after making millions, they actually increased it. It was sold to one of the worst company in the world for even more money.

After making millions a normal person would have make the game publicly available or at last free and they wouldhave never sell it to microsoft.