I’m not criticising you. Privacy should be an informed choice. Data exchange should be via consent and transparent.

You seem to know what you are trading and why, so more power to you!

Gets hardened, privacy focussed distro.

Logs into Google on browser.

Yeah, it’s now my mission to steal his AI girlfriend pet, and then we’ll see whether he truly thinks she’s sentient and can make up her own mind.

That’s how we get these techbros to drop this shit, we start outplaying them for the affections of the “sentient females” they think they are creating.

I disagree.

This assumes that progress on one distro doesn’t lead to progress on others.

The author of this article seems to think that choice and alternatives are a bad thing.

I’d like to take the opposite position. The more the merrier. Come on in.

Variety drives open source.

“What’s you’re biggest weakness?”

“I’m going to say my honesty”

“Not sure I think honesty is really a weakness…”

“I don’t give fuck what you think.”.

Hey, the idea might have been a bit dodgy, but you are made of better stuff.

Credit to you.

No moderation without representation. IOW: mods should be democratically elected.

Yeah, no.

Don’t turn this into a popularity contest. One that can be bought and cheesed.

Who has time for oversight on that? Why not voter id too.

Is this first past the post or proportional representation?

Term limits, right? Does that include a hand over? How much of their term will be spent getting up to speed?

Where is the incentive to someone starting their own community if it is going to be taken from them when they’ve put in hard work for no money. Should they not be rewarded for their labour?

Will the inherent democratisation of communities alter the content posted on them? Should we place bans in meta-political posts that support only the incumbent mod?

What if they choose not to leave? Insurrection? Send in the troops?

My friend, I say this genuinely, you are trying to police the internet. Don’t. It’s a folly.

You have the power to walk away. You have the power to start your own community.

Do it and run it better.

And back to the democracy thing… Democracy is a wonderful thing in the governance of human civilization… It’s not a fix for every situation you encounter that you don’t like. It often means instead of having one asshole to deal with you’ll get a carousel of different assholes on a regular basis.