Asahi Linux doesn't support encryption and getting it to work requires a lot of steps and that I reinstall it which I don't have time for, so I don't have it enabled on my laptop, and if it gets stolen or confiscated I'm fucked.
I have it enabled on my server and phone.
no they're just negative people
Call them "communities", not "instances", that might work better
Canada's going to become the 51st state
I don't value privacy for the sake of privacy, I value it because it's useful for defending against capitalists and fascists who want an unequal society that commits genocides and incarcerates people for immutable characteristics. Fascists don't value privacy for the sake of privacy either, for them it's a tool to further their goals of creating the worst society possible. It comes down to a left vs right issue, I picked one side, and Proton picked to promote the other.
I'm not sure how Brave is significantly better for fingerprinting than Cromite other than being more popular, which it still isn't popular anyways and both of them can be bypassed with more advanced scripts. Vanadium is the most secure, being part of the GrapheneOS project, but all of the Chromium-based Android browsers have better security than FF-based currently, although I just saw somewhere that IronFox is enabling process isolation which is currently experimental.
For me the main use case for LibreWolf isn't so much being anonymous as it is wanting a browser that doesn't have ads and data mining stuff going on and has some additional privacy protections but that also doesn't get in the way too much in terms of usability. Zen Browser might be a better fit for this use case now since it improves the UI while claiming to not have telemetry, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm not really concerned about fingerprinting since most sites I use already know who I am since I'm logged into them. If I wanted to be really private though I'd use Tor or Mullvad, but not as a daily driver since I value UX more as long as it's not invasive.
There's Vanadium and Cromite which have ad-blocking and strong security and none of the problems Brave has barring Chromium monopoly
On default settings, Firefox's news feed is suspiciously similar to the stuff I browse, so I don't trust it at all for privacy without Arkenfox. I like how LibreWolf strips all of that out by default but still lets me loosen the settings so I can install add-ons and keep data I want stored, which I'm not sure that Mullvad browser does. If it's getting behind on updates though, that would be disappointing, although right now the LW Flatpak is on a newer version of FF than Fedora FF. Mullvad browser is better for anonymity though.
we are all fighting for the same cause
Catering to the "Libertarian" neo-Nazi crowd so they buy your product vs wanting to defend minorities against these sort of people is not the same cause
Also Hexbear and Lemmygrad were populated by r/chapotraphouse and r/GenZedong users respectively when those subreddits got banned, which happened before the main Reddit exodus that populated instances like .world
the comments in that thread is such a reddit moment