there’s a razor thin line between the top-hat old-school capitalist stereotype and anti-semitic imagery

Friendly faces everywhere

First if all: my Not Sure Fry was intended as a joke.

So, just to understand you correctly:

I can collect just about everything in the DB tables I’ve seen without being logged into the instance with some external work. Can you see which communities I follow? Which feeds I watch (and when I do that)? Who I interact with through DMs?

are you trying to get my point?

you are (still) missing my point - but i might be wrong as well (i am mot too familiar with ActivityPub).

my point is not that my public posts are in fact public and can be (and probably are) mined through unknown parties, but that instance owners have even more, probably more valuable info, like IP addresses from which not just geolocation but also wake times, device usage patterns and other gnarly stuff could be extracted, that could - together with other personalized surveillance info (like the usual adware stuff) - be aggregated to give a bigger picture.

just showing (as you did) that one can get some info about me through my (public) actions does not refute the point that instance owners have access to more, not-so-public information

you miss the point: instance owners have quite a lot more information on their user’s activities than what’s public.

or would you argue that reddit does not aggregate data because it’s all public?

and wayyyy too large

GNU Guix

oh yes! this is really helpful to me

but my dummy friend still don’t get it

not sure if shitpost or shit post

see deez nuts!?

isn’t it 1:1?

not exist

so the transparency is not a sway feature but the terminal’s?

looks more like SwayFX to me ;)

WDYM the repos are very slow?

i’m using it as a daily driver for a couple of years now

it is built so that non-free packages can be made easily available (e.g. the non-guix channel). being sort of a meta-OS, already a bunch of operating systems were built on top of it, arguably easier to just get started as a novice

As a counterpoint to the majority of answers here, I’d love to suggest GNU Guix as the best answer. Like Nix, but enhanced for freedom with a formidable governance model. Built on freedom. Built to last forever. Also easier and more beautiful

sounds like cheating, to me (:

when your sourdough doesn’t rise enough you probably didn’t let it rise long enough ;) at least that’s what helped my experiments