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.

I’m always surprised by the toxicity of Lemmy. Anyways I think it was relevant to the topic because the OP asked for opinions on atomic systems. Are you arguing because you have a drastically different one?

I agree that this is a very valid reason but I don’t think most of the people see their OS that way

Sounds like a serious bug. What’s the distro and package format? It might be a single package issue.

I don’t see atomic systems on desktop computers. They make sense on more embedded and stable systems that still need eventual updates like ATMs and industrial machinery control panels but not desktops. Atomic systems kill customization that is one of the core advantages of Linux. Probably it also has something to do with my not-so-enthusiastic opinion on Flatpak idk.

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.

If you’re talking about the link preview then it’s a client side thing and you can disable it in the Jerboa’s settings