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But Wikipedia is open, do you want to boycott even free and open-source american software?

I also struggle to read some cursive handwriting, especially when the letters are more angular, like super italic.

It won’t ever scale to a real global default social network, on the donations and the kindness of strangers

The issue is: I don’t think people are bothered enough with commercial social media to the point of paying for an alternative. Think about it, even with the majority of Fedi instances being free to use, not many people stopped using Twitter/Reddit/Instagram. So I think Fedi instances need to be free to use while it’s small to attract new users.

So if what you said is true, then it’s going to be really hard for federated social media to get mass adoption.

Cursive handwriting is actually the standard in Brazil (and I guess a lot of other places), so here you would be the odd one out.

Besides, I don’t think we should have a black and white mentality here. Yes, we shouldn’t use privacy-invasive Google software, but if they make an ethical software/hardware, why shouldn’t we support it? It’s actually a nice way to tell Google that there’re ways to make money by making ethical products, like the Pixel phones.

Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers

Isn’t that illegal?

What? He just praised one good thing about Trump’s administration (the antitrust DOJ pick) and now he’s pro-MAGA and a Trump bootlicker? Did you guys even read the article conclusion? “However, being disillusioned with one party on one issue doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Andy Yen changed all of his stances and that now he’s actually pro-Republican or pro-MAGA. All of the evidence gathered suggests the exact opposite.”

I think this blog post sums it all, but it was written in 2024, so some of its information may be dated: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Could you elaborate? Isn’t the fact that it’s owned by a non-profit foundation an obstacle to enshittification? Do you assume the same will happen to services like Signal too?