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They're supporting commercialized, walled-garden social media platforms instead of ones that are publicly accessible

For electronics try Swappa or Jawa

I understand your point and I support & contribute to FOSS. But I was specifically addressing the claim that Telegram reads all messages and sells them to the highest bidder. They don't currently, unless someone can point me towards a credible source

• Pebble Time Steel (2015)

  • Helps me use my phone less, timers/alarms/stopwatch, rings my phone when lost, sleep tracking

• Galaxy Buds Plus (2020)

  • No frills, battery life is excellent due to no ANC, compact charging case

• Soundfreaq Sound Spot (2013)

  • Easy to use, hook up two for stereo, sounds fine to my ear, found another recently for $20

Most stuff works as expected. Here's a guide from 9to5Google

Yeah, I think those two definitely aren't enough. Plus asking for an interest doesn't make a lot of sense coming over from Reddit. Most people aren't looking to join a server for only interest because they're used to being in subreddits for various interests

China is pro-Palestinian, so it's still directly related

I've used Telegram for years and never seen an ad. Their Privacy Policy says ads aren't based on messages

Unlike other services, we don't use your data for ad targeting or other commercial purposes. Telegram only stores the information it needs to function as a secure and feature-rich cloud service.

Telegram offers a tool for advertisers to promote their messages in public one-to-many channels, but these sponsored messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown. No user data is mined or analyzed to display ads or sponsored messages.

Perhaps if the differences between servers could be codified into one place then someone could create a "quiz" to help users narrow in on servers that are a good fit. Like this website: https://www.dumbphones.org/dumbphone-quiz

Dumb

On the Orion forums their staff consistently bullies people around

I hear ya. That's why everyone says to use your own domain. Then when you change providers it's just an update to your domain instead of all your accounts