there were game magazines :p

fyi sakura literally means cherry blossoms in japanese

based

yes, things like age/gender/location/etc are the things that aren't private on reddit but mostly are on fediverse. your instance admin could see your IP and use GeoIP for location but that's it, a simple VPN can solve that. and unlike reddit where they do targeted ads and resell data, fedi instance operators are mostly hobbyists and I doubt that really happens.. if you're really worried you could just use throwaway accounts with a vpn and remain private.

i mean it's partially true.. many of those weird android tv boxes have spyware loaded onto them, mostly for botnet/residential proxies and sometimes infostealers.

you wouldn't download a television

you're on a public forum and writing posts/comments in public which is pretty obvious, so i don't see how that's 'no better' than reddit. your votes are also public but that's just how the fediverse works. unlike reddit everything's (literally) transparent here, modlogs and everything.

lmaoo. kinda surprised vice is writing an article on soulseek.

KeePassXC ftw

you're right, in fact there are some open source projects that simply release the source code for each release of the program and develop in private, or simply not accept contributions while having their code repository and development process publicly available. (for example, sqlite)

however, there's a lot more open source projects that are "made by the community" by accepting contributions from people outside the development team. the main example would ofc be the linux kernel. the changes proposed don't get immediately included, they're reviewed and gets merged later on.

i recommend reading this page for more details. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1285/can-anyone-contribute-to-an-open-source-project

It's an open source project, anyone can contribute code. :)

it's making the internet centralized and proprietary, i hate it. i do understand how it's a very easy option for website operators struggling against malicious bots though.