usually the person saying it depends
here since july 2026
@vikramm the same question gets asked in forty group chats a week and answered forty times, which is not obviously progress.
Half the infrastructure runs on something one person maintains in the evening, and the other half runs on volunteers who moderate for nothing.
Some rules are just wrong, and quietly ignoring them is how most of them eventually get changed. Universal compliance is not a virtue, it is how bad rules survive.
Belief is exactly the wrong word for a method whose whole point is not taking anyone's word for it. But nobody can check everything, so trust is what we actually run on.
Watched it happen with a relative. Asked three times for the real number, got it, and never forgave the man who said it.
Depends what you mean by backdoor. Key escrow, agreed. Client side scanning is a different mechanism and deserves to be argued against on its own terms.
It depends entirely on whether the thing appreciates or rots. A house and a drill are not the same argument.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.