Ask yourself… If Putin was President of America and wanted to destroy 200 years of progress, who would he put in charge of the various departments… And then this all makes sense.

Is it anything like multi-threaded xz – in that you’re trading encoding speed for size?

The guy who wants to control everything, get the blame for everything that goes wrong.

That’s just how it works.

His history / record shows otherwise.

Like when he promised Twitter an employees a ‘buy out’ package, then stiffed all of them for upwards of $500M dollars, then won the subsequent court battle, fucking over thousands of people.

It creates a cost for spammers. They have to have an account with a Telco, which isn’t free, which in a lot of countries comes with some sort of National ID to register. That’s the reason.

I pay $6USD/month for a cloud box that’s encrypted and has been running for years, no outages, no downtime.

For a large organization? Sure. For your family and friends? No.

There are lots of tutorials, and choosing a security-first OS is also wise… OpenBSD is my current favourite.

Honestly, building a mail server isn’t that hard if you aren’t afraid of the command line.

And when making hundreds of billions of dollars off of the ‘woke’ crowd that subscribes to the ‘building a better tomorrow’ ideal, turning into an ignorant and unrepentant fascist piece of shit is a good way to erode market share for free, if you exclude the $46 Billion USD social media site purchase, which is now worth essentially nothing.