It can be from their fans, competitors or anyone trying to discredit them. Anything is possible. But if it’s really from conservatives, it’s a very stupid strategy.

Lol why? There’s a lot of politics there

It doesnt help that I think conservatives are pieces of shit and I am a member of a marginalized community that they are targeting with hate and discriminative laws.

Stop infecting every single Lemmy community with freaking politics. There’s nothing good in it.

Speaking of your question, it looks like there’s a bad actor. Spamming isn’t something a serious political organization would do. I think you should change your phone number.

Oh that’s smart but I don’t think they use it for tracking now. The most they can do is check the hash for known CSAM.

But my system is not compromised?

Oh wow that’s quite a red flag ngl

Hmm then no need to worry about it I guess

That works too but then the image will be the resolution of a Minetest texture after uploading.

Yea that’s the best way.

Yes but I think most of them use absolutely the same transformation so the resulting image is the same. I really can be wrong though.

I don’t think they use picture analyzing software for tracking. It’s very resource heavy because it uses systems similar to LLMs. You can make very slight changes to your pfp (just one changed pixel is enough) for every website to avoid hash match but it’s not necessary I think. If someone wants to manually find your accounts though then it won’t be too hard for them.

Nah I’m just an average elitist Arch user.

Imo when you advertise (or anti-advertise) something, every argument matters but it’s important to structure the arguments well. It should be done by a skilled person that knows how to do it.

What tactics could be used to move people en masse away from mainstream platforms

Propaganda, advertising and other kinds of informing about the issues of the mainstream platforms.

and more generally, do you think there is a point in it?

Yes. Not just because of privacy issues but also because the algorithm is made to filter what a user can see (making their source of information heavily biased and incomplete) and to addict them to the platform (this shouldn’t be the main argument because people don’t really care about it now but it can be a nice secondary one).

There is a feature (permission) in new versions of Chromium that can help. I don’t remember the name though.

most games are the same price on GOG as other places like Steam

Steam has sales with ridiculously good discounts which is very important for me as a poor person.

Have you not heard of GOG? They only sell games DRM-free, and have similar sales to Steam. Ubisoft particularly don’t seem to like publishing much from the past 10 years though.

I know about GOG but Steam’s integration with Proton and ease of use on Linux are just too good. Probably I should try configuring Bottles manually but I still think I’ll have to spend 2 or 3 days to make one game work through it. My machine isn’t that powerful so the performance will suffer too. Also I really didn’t know someone except small indie devs made DRM-free games nowadays. I only ever saw one (the original Kerbal Space Program) that had a DRM-free version.

If we’re talking in the realm of privacy, it’s technically better than the other popular PC storefronts because they provide an optional offline installer for the game that, once downloaded, can be preserved into an archive and installed at any later date without internet (and can still be used if the game is taken down from the store). As far as I remember, they collect far less private data too, so that’s a plus.

I have a separate gaming machine (if you can call an RTX 3050 a gaming card) so privacy isn’t that much of a problem in my case but ngl I would love to have a better option.

so that everyone can work together to enforce the rules.

Sus

This is a privacy issue but it’s a much much much less of a privacy issue than what the EU wants to do with that mandatory internet ID thing. This Spanish concept shows that you don’t need complete mass surveillance like other governments try to convince everyone in.

I think the only good way to go is to break the transmitter inside the car and hope it doesn’t brick it.

Well I’m not rich enough to have a console. And wait there are DRM-free copies? But aren’t they like 10x the price of normal ones?