most of the people here will actually argue in favor of it
On Lemmy? This is the place that’s jazzed for GrapheneOS releases so they can degoogle their phone. We go on and on about private messenger apps, Proton, running non-corporate OSes, and privacy. Most of us are here because we don’t like the shitty direction Reddit is taking.
I think you can make the argument that generally people are ambivalent about privacy, but Lemmy is a definite exception to that rule.
We’re negative doomscrollers, true. But most people seem pretty polite, at least in my experience.
This. There has been a huge investment in the tooling around JS. Using TypeScript, you get the benefit of that ecosystem with a decent language.
It isn’t perfect, but it’s perfectly cromulent.
Take a look at the global feed. Subscribe to what you like. Eventually you’ll have enough.
That is a lot of text. But the bit that jumped out at me was:
But if you need a tool to communicate privately with your friends and family–even if your chats are boring, mundane, and totally legal–Signal is the best damn choice I can recommend.
And I trust them, because they bedazzled their essay with lots of furry art. Like an excessive amount. So they either know what they’re talking about or it’s a mid-effort psyop.
We all have our reasons for being here. The politics is definitely depressing, but it’s something a lot of Lemmites have in common.
You’re right that it’d be nice if there was more going on.