No, let them in so they can tell you you were right. Honestly. I’m one of them. I regret migrating away but nobody was left on IRC. Turns out it’s better that way.

I’ve been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Policies on hate speech could include automatic fact checking and community notes displayed to every reader.

If fact checking is deplatforming the alt right, then well, problem solved.

It’s loading a lot of content locally, and very very slowly before you can even use it.

If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.

It precisely means that is not going to be the case.

The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.

Any Arch/Debian. If you’re picking Distros based on which UI they package, you’re doing your self dirty by ignoring options that might be more what you want. You can always swap out the UI. It’s not a core part of most distros.

It is genuinely a public health epidemic. People will look back and ask how we could be so ignorant in the face of the OBVIOUS problems.

A year ago this comment would have gotten deleted from nearly any subreddit. Today it’s recognized as fact.