I lately have a saying:
“If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”

OP I appreciate the reasoning.
But I’d advise against it,
and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.

The platform is a data farm,
but I’m a data privacy advocate,
so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

But if I posted a dumb meme,
it would get a lot of attention.

I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

However deleting your account,
is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.

For those that don’t know:
It was a jump-scare flash game.

The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
but I guess it affected some others like OP.

Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!

They’ll likely will attempt to do so by:

• Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
• Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
• Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.

We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.

The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!

If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that’s also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.

No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?

I think I’d rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they’re allowed to train upon / use their data.

Woah the lawsuit company that makes games on the side did a thing other then filing lawsuits?

Doesn’t matter, I won’t be spending any more money on Nintendouch products.

They ruined enough fan projects for me to start hating them.

And I have not even touched the subject of the calculated breaking point in the original Switch, better known as Joy-Cons.

Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do.
Why don’t you kick yourself out?
You’re an immigrant too.

Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Shotdog x)

Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!

What do you use it for?
I’ve had it for a while,
but ended up uninstalling it,
since I could not think of a good use case.

Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOS

Do you have too much money?
=> Mac

Do you have a decent set of working brains?
=> Linux

For voicing your opinion about activism,
I’d recommend to at least use:

• A burner account,
  do not post your opinion through your daily account.
• A paid, no-log VPN or Tor when posting.

Above should cover the needs of most people.
But if you think you’re a high profile target,
then following would also be smart:

• Alter you writing,
  do not post in similar writing as your main account, e.g. if you usually capitalize each sentence, don’t, if you usually use emoji’s, don’t etc etc.
• Use a privacy oriented OS to post on,
  e.g. no Windows, no Apple, no closed source Android fork, but do use QubesOS, or TailsOS, or GrapheneOS.
• Only use chat clients with E2EE (End to End Encryption) and without identifiers, e.g. SimpleX.

This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.

Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.

They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.

China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”

Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :)

Pro or anti consumer features? x’)

Unsure,
however it’s refreshing to see posts of this clown which actually make me smile instead of concerned.

Go see for yourself,
don’t knock it till you tried it.

Manjaro,
benefits of Arch,
while being gamer ready,
easier to use and more stable.

It also has a GUI to manage your graphics drivers.

It’s not LibreWolf, but how about IceRaven?
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Has been my goto FireFox fork for Android for years.

The more I hear about Android 15,
the less excited I get for it…