I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.
One well known exception to your comment is Linus Torvalds. He didn't mind moving to the USA to make some good money after being a student who could afford a whopping 386! And unlike some people believe, the GPL does not restrict a programmer to make money.
That is a question that deserves its own thread. Just today I got again annoyed seeing how often mainstream press is using Twitter tweets and Twitter videos in their articles :( Good thing is that a significant amount of journalists got off Twitter and moved to Mastodon or something else. What does it take to get lots of open source projects, politicians and public services also move away from Twitter ? Should a new non-profit organization be created to promote leaving Twitter and help people choose for the Fediverse ?
With etherpad-lite the default is guest mode and no protection at all (but I've seen that with plugins user accounts can be made). With Hedgedoc and Cryptpad user accounts can be made and I think with that "private" protected pads are possible.
I can imagine that the guy wants to secure his network and is maybe paranoid about people breaking in which seems fair to me, and after all computers and networks involve subtle power structures as described in BOFH. I guess the "now get of my lawn!" remark is a typical and "normal" remark in some states or regions of the USA. Someone from the UK or Ireland could made say instead "sod off!" to end a conversation they think deserved to be stopped.
Many people probably won’t be bothered by these things, but I am. I don’t want to pay full price for something that I don’t truly own. I miss the familiarity. I miss the reliability. I miss feeling like it’s mine. Dependable. Trustworthy.
Picking my old guitar up again has never looked so appealing. I think I want to go back to investing more time, money, and energy into things that aren’t connected to the internet
Okay. Got a source for that ? I had the impression from the SerenityOS developer that the donations came because of the videos that Andreas is making but I could be wrong.
Sure, but what random psycho would go through all your comments collecting data like weather on a specific day, car, job, etc… just to mess with you in real life. That’s like one in a billion unless you specifically seek out those kind of people.
Scraping experiments have been done in the Fediverse several times and with the booming A.I. such an action does not seem very unlikely to me.
You can try to follow the build instructions like mentioned in another comment but be aware that you are trying to build for a platform which has as far as I can see no official support compile instructions for the software. YMMV.
A marketer I know has a mantra, that successful sales are all about dissatisfaction - making people aware just how their situation sucks, and then offering a way to relieve the pain.
I saddens me that it feels like the multi-billion dollar data harvesting companies are winning, but I no longer know if this is a hill that I’m willing to die on.
It is a very sad thing indeed :(
What are your thoughts on what we have to give up in our lives just to stay in control of our personal information?
I guess it depends whether you want to be reachable 24/7 on mobile or not.
With Signal and with things like WhatsApp and for that matter Telegram a phone number
is only required to sign up. And you do not have to restrict yourself to one phone number.
Actually that is not correct because contacts syncing is another thing.
If you are willing to have a private life without Meta and a second life which includes Meta Zuck it is technically possible. Buy a cheap smartphone with another SIM card for signing up and for syncing contacts and then link it to desktop apps that you can check a few times a day to check in with your friends via the Meta Zuck channels. The cheap smartphone can stay off unless you need to sync contacts.