krimsonbun

In my opinion the windows way of doing it is very unsafe, especially for regular users (who mostly use windows) that don't exactly know who's trustworthy, and especially on such a mainstream OS that is much more vulnerable to malware.

Linux has it very well figured out with repositories, especially universal ones like flatpak. They're much more secure and trustworthy. It has the benefits of a walled garden and the benefits of an open ecosystem.

if it doesn't have racist and homophobic minion memes it is not a true facebook alternative

uploading this to lemmy, are you?

I never mentioned google. And sure, xmpp exists but it's dead and would be much better off if not for big tech giants

We just don't want history repeating itself like what happened with xmpp. Do you really think facebook of all companies is joining the fediverse with good intentions? Do you really think they're not trying to monopolize this?

yeah, no

4 or 6

I feel the same, but recently I've been experimenting much more with plasma, I don't really have a reason.

old phones have batteries that are meant to last

they're planning on adding ads

You build your own mastodon feed, I've barely seen any posts about linux unless I'm looking for them.

You're funny