If a messaging service requires a phone number then it’s not “secure” lol.

I combine it with blocking users. Political communities are blocked entirely, and then users who post irrelevant political crap in non-political communities are blocked individually.

Are you saying that not all bourgeois are the same?

Well, login gating worked for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (it’s not dead yet despite some people’s claims). We here are tiny minority of social media users.

They are currently A/B testing blocking access to videos without an account. That’s why some people are getting errors. It’s likely that it will be rolled out to everyone in the future.

I thought America didn’t have pedestrian crossings?

Anything Musk-related is a relevant content on Fediverse.

Nope. My Galaxy S23 is unlocked and it has Facebook and Meta crap installed as “system” apps. Same with an older Sony phone.

That’s why you launch them through systemd.