Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

It’s much harder for the government and bad actors to hide backdoors in open source software than making a deal with a private company

dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

The government and bad actors use this as a strategy to attack their opponents and control public opinion.

Protests crack down on the internet has been going on for quite some time, don’t just blame it on trump but on the whole government and its infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

As it currently stands, the morally correct option for food production would probably be for a large amount of the population to starve. That, of course, is also not entirely morally correct.

Considering almost 1.5 billion adults in the world are overweight it wouldn’t be so bad to let some people starve.

Guess what, most if not all veggies and vegans are also doing something morally dubious at best. Factory farming, extensive farming, they’re all bad for the soil, bad for native wildlife, bad for native plants. The societal impacts of factory farming are also not small. In the end, the moral lines people draw are mostly at different places, neither is undoubtedly better than the other.

Animals needs to eat and drink too, the meat industry has the highest tool on the farming industry.

I have personally tried to give up meat twice, once for 6 months and once for a year. On both cases my health suffered massively for it, and I went back to eating meat. I had a cousin who was, for many years, a hardcore vegetarian. She was also of the opinion that eating meat was wrong. A few years ago she reintroduced fish in her diet to overcome health issues after fighting them for years. Most symptoms subsided in a handful of months. I believe she now also eats beef, although infrequently and in small quantities. I’m sorry to be that guy but reality is more complex than whatever moral line any one of us would like to draw. You’re not wrong but it would behoove you to acquire some nuance on your thoughts.

It sound like your diet was off, if you don’t eat animal products you need valid alternatives to complete and balance your diet. In cultures shaped around animal products it may not be automatic or easy to find alternatives. Our ancestors diet for example had less meat and more lentils, in countries were they consume less meat you are most likely to find popular dish with other proteins sources.

None of them are good or private

It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.

43 billions is peanuts compared to the 3 trillions apple and microsoft market cap. Twitter is one of the biggest social network in the world and the one more used by politicians. It has plenty of value even if not making profits, everyone know how it works.

And now you read daily how much money it’s losing.

Last time i hear about him he was talking over the president, as expected from owning one of the biggest social networks in the world he isn’t losing much.

Literally the ONLY reason Musk bought it was because he got into a pissing contest

People keep saying he’s an idiot making stupid decisions, which is true because he’s a corrupted money addict but he’s the second if not the first richest man in the world and he’s now in the white house talking for the president. You are all getting fooled hard thinking he becomes more wealthy by accident.

Doesn’t look like a bad investment, look at where the ceo is at

Twitter is one of the biggest social networks in the world and the most used by politicians worldwide. It’s quite obvious that his position allowed him to get more votes to his party.

Doesn’t seem like he lost much, like you would expect by buying one of the biggest social platform in the world he got even richer and more relevant (enough to get a sit in the white house)

Why they didn’t want it?

Doesn’t make much business sense for megacorps to buy one of the biggest social media that allowed his new ceo a place in the white house?

The whole network is de facto centralized on Matrix.org

That’s not true there’s plenty of people using different homeservers

Because it’s nothing more than a trick to divide public opinion and control it.

Go ahead and send me your phone number. If you don’t want to do it please provide data that i’m compromised.

It takes 2 to tango. It’s like trying to send an email from a self-hosted email server without following all of Google’s rules/guidelines…

Don’t say bullshit, a chat is not mails, matrix federation works similarly to lemmy

Matrix is centralized too in practice

There are plenty of different available homeservers and you can host yours.

It is not. We are on a privacy sub on lemmy, services that require mandatory phone number are far away from been fine to use.

less stupid than the one you just made

Now it’s even worst ok but we are discussing why people don’t care and my suggestion to find an answer is to think about why you didn’t care in the past when it was bad already.