From what I saw it was quite left leaning when I used it

Not yet but it’s being worked on and it’s close now

Use a different homeserver for matrix and it’s way faster then the default matrix.org one for the element clients servers joinmatrix.org is a good list

Never torrent over Tor, torrent over I2P it actually supports it and has its own torrent client i2psnark

Pixel 6 series and 7 have 5 years and now 7 with the 8 series

Compared to almost all other android phone marker it’s decent and https://endoflife.date/pixel starting with the pixel 6 gen they got 5 years now 7 with the pixel 8

The proxy is needed until sliding sync is finalised and merged into the spec and implemented into clients

From what I’ve seen his staff also “bully” him as well, to me it looks like casual ribbing each other that friends do, I could be wrong

because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality

I mean, isnt everything musk does half assed?

yeah wordlists for any kind of moderation can easily catch false positives

well ben shapiro made a 45 minute video ranting about it lmao so some do

I know that signal requires your number

matrix doesnt encrypt any metadata at all pretty much, only message content and files uploaded to encrypted rooms are encrypted

sms through signal was not encrypted, how would that even work? how would the signal app even know your contacts were using an app that supports encryption?