Well, some people called me paranoid and said “us regular people don’t have anything to hide” when I told them how much data Meta collects about us. Of course, this frustrated me as my threat model is very small compared to most people here.

I explained how free services where instead the user is the product work, and how much I disagree with this model. I informed them that I use FOSS almost everywhere and that they exist for the greater good of humanity.

Signal’s not great for privacy either tbf

Why do you think so? Yeah, it is not anonymous due to requiring a phone number, but all media and metadata are end-to-end encrypted.