I appreciate the insight, but I’m not making the jump based on privacy. I have an issue involving my texts (seemingly at random) converting themselves to a broken url and erasing my message. I changed apps so I can text people without worrying about my message getting removed, plus FOSS is something I support on principle

Thank you! I’ll try this one Update: it works well so far

My thoughts exactly. Sounds good on paper, but it wouldn’t be possible for me

There’s are open source communities here! If you search for them, there’s several and they are all good. “Opensource” has a megathread somewhere that will give you an idea.

Personally, its more about something being taken from me without consent and the ramifications that might have on society. And down voting you for asking this question is not conducive to a long lasting community

Some of these are new to me, but I can vouch for Surge and Cardinal. There’s no reason to not use them.

Sorcerer, technically

I’m below 30, but I’m right there with ya. Even in my lifetime, I’ve seen enough stupid corporate shit.

I think everyone would be better off ignoring Reddit and its staff completely. We can build a better Reddit 2.0, and it wouldn’t even take a lot of effort. The last year or two of Reddit (from my perspective) was lackluster content from niche communities becoming unbearably toxic anyway.