Which young politicians and new media commentators would you point to? I need new people to follow.

“The revolution will be federated” fuck yeah

I’ve had the same simple point since the beginning of this conversation. In fact, I initiated the conversation by replying to you, so I set the topic of conversation, and I haven’t wavered from it. Care to answer my question that you avoided?

IMO, the average person not embracing the fediverse has much less to do with any flaws in the fediverse (these do exist, don’t get me wrong) and much more to do with inertia, the network effect, and just lack of knowledge or fucks to give about privacy and open platforms.

It’s also probably hugely impacted by a lack of advertisement and corporate backing. That’s just the way it goes.

So, by your logic, you hate the people of the United States, right?

You understand that even a democratic government can be oppressive, right? You can absolutely dislike a government without disliking the people it represents.

Um, yes you obviously can

How would backing up help with that, though, assuming the backups are also encrypted?

I meant if I lose my encryption key I lose the data on the disk.

If they lose the key they lose the data in the backups, too. So that concern is not a good reason to backup, in my eyes.

Then, if the backups are not encrypted, then doesn’t that undermine the value of encrypting your drive/user data partition in the first place?