First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because…
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they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services
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replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with… Drumroll please… Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.
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They are For-profit
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and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.
… I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.
But a TL;DR:
/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.
No I’m not. All the excuses about “swatting”, “autism” and everything else are in the Rossmann video I linked above. The way Micay behaved based on that single YouTube comment was the behaviour of an unhinged lunatic. If you think it’s acceptable to send hundreds of messages to people threatening them over a single comment as benign as that one, maybe you’re an unhinged lunatic as well. This is psychotic, controlling behaviour and is potentially very dangerous. I’m not sure why you can’t see that.
You did skip a lot of facts, which just makes your bias clear. Being swatted repeatedly is probably not fun. Hasn’t happened to me, but I at least have the capacity to understand that that could cause people to be very upset. Imagine you are just hanging out, working your butt off on a project that benefits thousands of people, but some crazy person is trying to destroy it by spamming CSAM and gore in your chat rooms, then that crazy person calls the cops and convinces them to break down your door armed to the teeth and ready to shoot people. The swatter tried to kill him. Then someone pretending to be a “friend” turns their back like that? Then even makes a video filled with lies and misdirection aimed at further harming him? It should be clear that someone in that kind of situation is not going to be acting calmly and you’re calling him a lunatic.
And I guess I’m a lunatic for having basic empathy too.