NormalC [he/him, comrade/them]

Can you give direct links? No one can discount your feelings but without any examples or evidence then we can’t understand.

I’ve grown up under a communist government in a socialist republic…

Huh? That’s a very roundabout way of describing a communist state. Where do you come from specifically? You can count communist states on your fingertips.

ideology, like all ideologies, is scary for its intolerance and disregard of human nature…

I don’t think that’s what the word “ideology” means. Also it’s dangerous and unproductive to off-handedly remark on “human nature.” It’s a bad faith psuedoscientific buzzword that’s rooted in uncontextualized historical analysis. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

I will therefore gatekeep any pure ideolog, just to save my own faith in humanity.

Again, I’m not quite sure what this means. I think you’re conflating a lot of things here that just don’t make sense and I dont want to make any assumptions about you. No community can ever be immune to reactionary politics, but thats not the same as rejecting “pure ideology”

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Wannabe communists

There’s a lot to unpack in that one. First of all, how do you even gatekeep being a communist? Surely you don’t hold a degree in Marxist-Leninist thought? Nor are you a hexbear yourself.

Or perhaps since you have this perception that we are all petite bourgeoisie (mostly white) in the imperialist core that we can’t actually be communists (ignoring how paradoxical that is)

Perhaps communism in your mind is only for the “orient” and global south. Those in the “West” must just be play acting.

Piracy is always moral. These types of comments ignore the fact that “game devs” don’t actually have full control of their works but instead is split through a larger publishing/corporation and shareholders. Game devs have very little autonomy or personal agency at all.

Very suave, I’m eager to see the dotfiles.

I’m a zoomer in uni as well. People have given me the “its another app on my phone” excuse but once I tell them I don’t use any social media they are actually a lot more understanding.

Bonus points if I hit them with the Free Software rhetoric.

This guy is just a brainless chud who got pwned by a literal computer program for parasocial weirdos.

Found the bootlicker. How does it taste?

Security and avoidance of anti-features != anonymity. If you wanted that you would have to use something like GNU Jami which has account archives and is peer to peer.

I’m just grateful that the phone number requirement means less of a hassle for others.

Proprietary (nonfree) Software.

People still peddle the “muh intellectual property” and “I gotta feed my kids in this fast-paced economy” even though these are irrelevant to software freedom.

An alarming majority (at least in the US) are ignorant of this conflict at all. The money is so distorted in the IT industry that it’s tantamount to theft. The skeletons in Congress don’t have a single clue.

We should open our own YouTube, with blackjack… and hookers! That’ll show those google guys.

GNU Jami (pronounced Guh-nu Ya-mi) is a peer-to-peer cross-platform messaging and VOIP application. It uses an API called the Jami Distributed Network, meaning that the Jami network has no single point of failure. If you’re familiar with TOR you’ll understand where this is coming from.

Best part is that Jami is a GNU package; it will always be free/libre software or else Richard M. Stallman perself will break the kneecaps of every developer on the project /half-joke.