nice whataboutism, “they should do this instead”. oh they do, but you don’t care when they do.

the delivery didn’t deface anything, if you want to focus on the delivery and once again ignore the message at least be honest. willing or not, messages like this do BP bidding

comparing with mullvad is ridiculous and just shows how much you drank the apple juice without questioning

• mullvad doesn’t hold your contact info, like apple right?
• mullvad is open source so you can independently verified which data is being sent, just like apple right?
• mullvad claims to not log anything, like apple and their csam thing on icloud right?

“leave alone the multi billion dollar corporation” energy

if you’re trying to build a chatroom then any chat software goes but if you’re trying to build a community you should probably use something searchable and indexed, like real community software

also i find it laughable that users must already be on such platform, by your logic all communities should be mailing lists

i don’t think it’s unfair to want sustainable tourism, it isn’t either do or dont, there are many ways to do it. think airbnb and rising housing costs: residents may want to have customers AND buy a home in their city

what data gets hogged back? most stuff can be turned off and are features that would be missing anyway from xmpp, like identity servers or integrations server. also you can selfhost your identity server and add integrations manually

dice too gives you tickets in their app

https://dicefm.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/22367835146513-Why-we-ask-you-to-download-our-app

“why we ask you to download an application”

• we want to mine your data
• we want to mine your data
• you need to give us this data
• come on you’ll love being datamined