TL;DR

12 - Resident Evil 4 remake

11 - Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

10 - Dave the Diver

9 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

8 - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

7 - Diablo IV

6 - Super Mario Bros. Wonder

5 - Armored Core VI

4 - Street Fighter 6

3 - Baldur’s Gate 3

2 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

1 - Alan Wake II

Is there any other way?

Probably one of those modern crack wizards based on the paraphernalia littering the alcoves.

Which is it? Are you seeing this complaint constantly, or is it a spicy individual opinion?

I’d probably say my preference to have fewer default knee-jerk recommendations for Linux within various tech posts about other systems isn’t particularly unpopular, if only going by the up/downvote count. Even if it was the other way around, I’d stand by it, however antagonistic you might find my “bravery”.

Completely agree, hence the reply to lolcatnip’s comment originally. It’s to be expected I guess, given where we are (as deweydecibel said earlier), but that doesn’t make it less annoying.

Nah mate, you can have this one. This is where I drop off. Jumping into a topic with “you must be ashamed of being a nerd“ is never going to provoke a worthwhile discussion.

What’s your barometer, bearing in mind you said it had the potential to be a silver bullet? Silver bullet for what?

I don’t want to sound defensive, but please don’t assume I’m not invested in FOSS. I’m on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and am the developer of half a dozen small FOSS projects on GitHub.

I’ve been reading about its potential for a long time. Maybe next year will be the year of Linux ;)

My apologies

The article is about transitioning from Instagram to Pixelfed, i.e. it’s targeting people who already use Instagram. If an individual is an Instagram user already, then privacy clearly isn’t a consideration for them, and if it was, there are countless articles already regarding Meta’s approach to their data that don’t need to be recycled here.

If your concern is your data, then yes, don’t trust anyone but yourself. As has been said, there’s alternatives for that, including self-hosting.

Pixelfed’s advantages aren’t limited to potential privacy features though, which I agree would have been excellent items to raise in the article, such as a focus on photos and a complete lack of any algorithm forcing tailored content at you. But this is a how-to article, not a feature comparison. I’m sure we’ll see a prevalence of those in the future but it’s still early doors. I would argue that it literally does imply that Pixelfed is more privacy focused though - it’s right there in the title.

Kilngon

The UK is like that - GDPR was adopted by the UK as well as the EU - but yeah, it’s not privacy related regulation that’s the issue here.