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Actually, I don't really run into nearly as much shills as haters.

The biggest clowns can be found in online comments though. (And yes, I deliberately include myself in that group)

I don't think it's as sinister as that. People just love their anti AI circlejerk.

What about the rest that is illegally acquired though?

Any chance? Yes.

That would put still allow the instance admin to oversee all your different accounts - which would require giving a lot of trust to just 'some stranger on the internet'. Wouldn't you be better off just creating different accounts on different servers? Then the only person that knows those accounts belong to 1 person would be you.

Edit: one thing I would welcome is the ability to hide your public profile, or posts on a specific community. Then again, all the info is distributed, so it would just take one client to gather all a users posts, tie them together, and expose it anyway.

So while on one hand I understand your wish for anonimity, in practice it does more harm than good. You might have good reasons to do so, it would also allow people with less aligned intentions to sway public opinion, or make certain opinions seem more numerous than they are. I don't think the downsides are worth it.

Skill issue.

Yes, that's the point, very astute of you. It takes time and knowledge to get good at stuff like this.

So... Let's assume I don't go around reading licenses for fun.

Can anyone explain to me what the major differences are between MIT and GPL?

I sincerely thank you for your honest and nuanced take, but I don't fully agree on one thing - Even in this thread you can see people arguing that giving money to (or "having dinner with") makes you equal to a nazi.

That is the part I object to, because by becoming so extremely polarising, it robs the word of all meaning. I might be too moderate for lemmy (I assure you I have voted leftwing parties for most of my adult life), but to me when I see someone described as a "literal nazi" nowadays I can't help but wonder "internet nazi or actual nazi"?

So when I object to things like this, it's because I fear for the damage this actually does to proper discourse, to fighting actual nazis. I don't give a shit about Omarchy myself (I prefer debian based distros :p), but when someone describes it as "a distro for fascists", you're just alienating those users - 99% of whom are probably not even aware of the politically charged reasons behind it. It just feels like virtue signaling to me, and meanwhile only furthering the divide between people.

Again, I think it's good people call 1password and the others out. But do so on the right basis, like: "What you're doing is amplifying hate speech", rather than "you are nazis".

Peace.

(edit, that came or longer than I intended, my apologies)

I think xenophobic racist shitbag would be less ambiguous.

Try btop, it's prettier and even includes gpu.