I appreciate the insight, but I’m not making the jump based on privacy. I have an issue involving my texts (seemingly at random) converting themselves to a broken url and erasing my message. I changed apps so I can text people without worrying about my message getting removed, plus FOSS is something I support on principle

Thank you! I’ll try this one Update: it works well so far

My thoughts exactly. Sounds good on paper, but it wouldn’t be possible for me

There’s are open source communities here! If you search for them, there’s several and they are all good. “Opensource” has a megathread somewhere that will give you an idea.

When you’re registered as a video game company as a front for a lawsuit business, you’ve requested pirac

Some of these are new to me, but I can vouch for Surge and Cardinal. There’s no reason to not use them.

Sorcerer, technically

I’m below 30, but I’m right there with ya. Even in my lifetime, I’ve seen enough stupid corporate shit.