No doubt. It's a shitty move. But it's also shitty reporting focusing on "kids miss social media" while there so much bigger issues with the law. It generates noise and disperses criticism. It only benefits surveillance capitalism.

Nobody has to feel anything, including sympathy. People are free to feel whatever, as long as they act responsibly.

Yeah. Of the myriad reasons to criticize such a move, getting kids out of reach of the dopamine manipulations of vulture capitalists isn't one.

I have to ask why on earth they would switch to C. I can only imagine the performance walls they were hitting in such a high computationally bound application, that forced their hand to rewrite the entire code in C of all languages.

Thank you.

I'm sure you meant something else, but I can't deduce what. Dedicated? Separate?

How are the moderation tools? I see matrix having a big troll problem, enough to put me off of it.

I think you're confusing Elo (just a local company) with Pix, a government created interbank payment system. And from what I know of Pix, yes, we should all definitely copy that.

I'm nearly fully FLOSS. GOS recommendations are geared for political dissidents and other actively persecuted persons. Take your threat model into account. Most people don't have that kind of worry.

What a braindead take.