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To answer your edit: No. They use different encryption algorithms.

Whatever your goal is, there most likely is no such instance that satisfies your definition of "freedom of speech". You should run your own instance where you have full control. Since most instances wouldn't federate with such an instance, a relatively cheap VPS will do. Even some old computer you may have lying around.

No, of course I don't. I am not as paranoid as Richard Stallman, but I am also not as pronoid as the average human to just use proprietary software when there are similarly functioning open source software. With open source software, you can inspect the code and compile the code that you inspected. This is not true for something like iOS.

And of course, FOSS malware also exists (for example the recent xz data compression program). But guess what? You can find if it is really malware or not because you ultimately can inspect the code and compile the code you inspected. That is also why the malware in xz was found out. Who knows what there is in closed source software you can't inspect the code of. Do you perhaps believe in security through obscurity?

Using open source software is always an advantage. Praise for privacy software should be earned through the ability to verify them, and not granted by default.

I don't know about you but if I don't know what a program that I can't inspect the code of does, I'll just assume the worst case scenario. I can't prove it but you also can't prove that it isn't doing something shady, can you? So what if I am using Private Relay? Apple will know what websites I visit or what I do with my phone as long as I use their proprietary operating system and who knows who they'll give it to. And with this, I am saying it again: Apple's operating systems are no exception to this rule.

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I tried using yunohost and some others but they all sucked. I went with just using the bare podman cli

I agree. Revolt is a good alternative to Discord. Matrix does not feel the same as Discord, but just a WhatsApp alternative that is decentralized and federated.

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My evidence is something being proprietary and in the hands of big tech (in this case Apple). What makes you blindly trust in Apple's words?

You do have a good point. However, I can’t consider a proprietary operating system like iOS truly private. It may be secure (certainly more so than stock Android and some random custom Android based ones) but if I can’t be sure that my operating system isn’t spying on me, then security alone doesn’t matter much for me tbh. Apple’s operating systems are no exception to this.

So, in a ranking that considers both security AND privacy, iOS being the second one is questionable. However, if the ranking is based solely on security, then I have no issue with it.

So more security equals more privacy? Is that why iOS is second in your rankings?

Revolut is an option. And hopefully soon we'll also get GNU Taler, which isn't exactly a virtual card system, but is a private payment system. The customer is kept anonymous while the seller's income is transparent.

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I'm pretty sure you said that the ranking was based on security and privacy. I don't see the privacy benefits of using iOS over a custom privacy OS.