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The people you message will be using standard systems.
Anonymous methods are known. You can retain anonymity regardless of what Fed can peek into the box. We accept this as a necessary evil to XMPP rooms.
1/3 of the room might be running Ai agents on their screens, so, the international spy network knows what everyone's doing... but they have no fucking clue who the other 2/3 is, nor is the history constantly browsable, mostly pieces at a time.
In a room with friends who know who you are, the relationship would become more obvious.
Sooner or later, I see myself forcing my important contacts to use linux. But indirectly, like, if they want to keep messaging me, they need to switch to a trustworthy OS. Of course I'll have to verify beforehand if they actually use it.
“How to alienate yourself in one easy step”
Then you just won’t be talking to anyone anymore
Dont threaten me with a good time.
Like all of you are chatterboxes on Facebook to start with.
On the contrary, you'll be talking to the cool people.
~~They won't be responding because they'll be busy compiling Gentoo tho.~~
Gentoo doesn't take that long.
And it works while you're compiling.