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These are not the same community. The actual free software community has been a thing for 40 years, and the privacy/security people spend as much time attacking free software as they do big tech. I've come to believe no security or privacy guy is trustworthy in the free software space. Reject Rossman, return to Stallman.
edit: security guys will say "free software isn't always more secure!" and privacy guys will say "freedom, what is this freedom? it has no internet access, that's the only thing that matters!" and meanwhile stuff like WEI is being implemented, that we've been warning about for the last 40 years. The security and privacy guys will say you don't need freedom, just the "best tool for the job" - Chrome was the best browser when it came out, now it's being used to subjugate the free web. WEI is the end result of treating freedom as a second thought behind security.
That was not a generalisation, but a (perhaps confusing) way to convey this group exists in both FOSS and privacy community, attacking both, creating drama in both and normalising asshole behaviour and lies in general. I am well aware of the distinction, as a Debian user, and a Linux adopter since when W10 dropped. I advocate for both free libre OSS and privacy (if you noticed r/privatelife before).
Thanks for making me smirk a little with the WEI example. There is hope only in prioritising freedom AND democratisation of technology, everything else second, as principle. But I consider realism and use specific closed source software where needed, because the world is far from utopia. I have been a Netscape and Phoenix user since the beginning, only tried Chrome once for a few days around 2010s when it was being hyped in the Browser Grand Prix Wars and found it not worth the loss of freedom.
I would like to take this opportunity to show you how Micay and his acolytes and GrapheneOS members have time and time again evangelised Windows, MacOS, Google and Big Tech companies over the years.
Big Tech shilling: https://i.imgur.com/bUdVCpH.jpg
Big Tech shilling on Telegram: https://i.imgur.com/V7McLFO.jpg | Their mirror on Lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/c/windowssec
Astroturfing Reddit, a collage: https://i.imgur.com/Yv9nvxy.jpg
Them astroturfing 4chan for years. A collection of 6 months of posting. https://i.imgur.com/G6P1c9n.jpg
GrapheneOS key member who became Privacyguides mod, "considering" closed source promotion rules (http://web.archive.org/web/20220501174616/https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/siqc69/consideration_on_removing_rule_1/) and one month later implementing them (http://web.archive.org/web/20220501174740/https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/tdtbcz/recent_changes_to_privacyguides/). Keep in mind the Big Tech shilling evidence above.
This is one of the key reasons why I act as a defense line to protect Lemmy against their invasion. I stopped them completely on Reddit. I stopped them 2 years ago here. Now they are back, downvoting me with 5-6 alts, and I need community support. They are enemies of FLOSS, freedom and even many open source projects. All they do is create drama and spread hate, then when someone complains, they start crying. They are crybullies. Last year they even did this to me, trying to get me out of the way. https://archive.ph/acy2h