It's a licensing statement. Their post is CC-licensed.

They do stand up for themselves. Meaning, their bottom line.

I've never said Telegram is better. I'm just saying Matrix is also bad.

XMPP is the future.

Isn't matrix like an absolute non for privacy?

I mean, you are not entitled to people being soldiers in your war against Big Tech. Like, I'd be totally for it, but some other time, nowadays I'm resting and being creative. Speaking of, not everyone here laps the crotch of Spotify et al. I'm a proud (but modest) pirate.

But the right solution is inconstitutional and anti-corporate! Even socialist and maybe even "woke"! So, this is the option TPTB are leaving us with.

Don't like it? The second most useful thing to do compared to this is to ready your guillotine. That is the language they understand.

Oh yeah that should be cheap considering Cuba is right around the corner, for example.

Pros: you get to be your own boss.

Cons: you get to be your own employee.

I plan to keep using my current 2015-ish phone to watch my media at home, so it's likely I'll keep off of AV1 until phones are made somehow hardware upgradable (Fairphone?). Plus, in a general sense, in order to reacquire new media in a better codec you have to at least keep the old media around until you have finished verifying the new, otherwise you run the risk of ending up with no good copy.

By being moved to the main Wordpress branch, where everything has been known to be hackable since 1999, rather than staying in Tumbr's however-modified branch where probably some exploits don't work or have unexpected results.

Oh fair point.

Feel free to hire the admins then!

~~Wait, that might have come out wrong...~~

Changing the source code of the browser, unfortunately. I don't know what Tor Browser does or how, but basically you'd have to do about the same as they do.