Hanlon's razor. I myself had no idea that 88 had any nazi-related meaning before I read this article and thought nothing of the title when I first heard it. It seems perfectly reasonable that the dev could have done the same, especially since they were willing to almost immediately change the name and remove all existing promotional material once they found out.

I don't even bother unsubscribing anymore, I just mark it as spam and it stops appearing in my inbox

"Devious licks", aka literally just straight up stealing shit and posting it on tiktok

Unfortunately, until and unless peertube can pay creators (so basically never), it will only ever see use by foss enthusiasts, and even then only hobbyists will use it as their primary platform. For someone making a career out of it, youtube is pretty much the only real option at the moment.

A QA tester walks into a bar,
orders a beer,
orders 2 beers,
orders 0 beers,
orders 4294967296 beers,
orders -1/12 beers,
orders HGdIhFNPiHPWUDmUfWIFi beers,
orders a zebra

First real customer walks in,
asks where the bathroom is,
the whole bar catches on fire

I would use "what's known as", e.g. "Western countries belong to what's known as the Paris club"

That's often also used in the other way though.

she could trust him more than any of her "friends"

https://freetubeapp.io/

first they had machine code
then they wrote the assembler in machine code
then they rewrote the assembler in assembly
and assembled it with the machine code assembler
then they wrote the C compiler in assembly
and assembled it with the assembly assembler
then they rewrote the C compiler in C
and compiled it with the assembly C compiler
then they had the C compiler
and everything else was written in C

(note: this is a massive oversimplification and ignores much of the history of programming languages, but it at least gets across the idea of how bootstrapping is done)

Signal doesn't trust messages server side.

What does this have to do with their ability to support reproducible builds?

Because they have unfathomably ridiculous amounts of money that they spend on lobbying (read: bribery) so that they stay not responsible.

Except sometimes you can't not use the service.

It's completely unreasonable to expect people to quit their job just because they disagree with the terms and conditions of a single piece of software they're required to use for work. If that service is collecting their data, there's basically nothing they can do about it.