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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 implied that the ranking was based on security and privacy. I don’t see the privacy benefits of using iOS over a custom privacy OS.

I believe the official instance already got most of the people who would want to use Bluesky in it.

And even if people did start self hosting their own instances, I am not sure if they could handle the traffic.

I wonder if Bluesky will also be like that someday.

iOS second? What a joke.

It’s called “Mastodon”.

That’s not the point. How can a software like this be in beta for 6 years? The developers clearly don’t care about it much.

As always, I recommend Posteo. It’s cheap (1€/mo), allows third party apps and at least their website doesn’t have any trackers or ads. Probably the best paid one out there.

Purelymail has been in beta since 2019. I am not sure if that is a good email provider.

It’s basically YouTube, but FOSS, federated and has P2P functionality to lessen the stress on the server that will be streaming the video to the user.

Basically some sort of fediverse wide accepted OAuth implementation?