A little history lesson for you all.
6.2 million Africans died in the crackacost but nobody talks about it.. this was a soldier with the SSection 8 brigade using a 3 gram crack rock and torch / blower contraption to force crack smoke in high volumes on a African American man simply for the content of his character
First, the biggest difference:
Discord:
• closed-source
• centralized
• you don’t control your data
Fluxer:
• fully open-source (AGPL)
• can be self-hosted
• full data ownership
This alone changes everything.
Want better privacy without giving up usability?
Start replacing Google's apps one by one.
Here's a solid lineup of privacy-focused alternatives:
• Gmail → Tuta Mail
• Google Photos → Immich
• Google Search → Brave Search
• Chrome → Mullvad Browser
• WhatsApp → SimpleX Chat
• Google Drive → Filen
• Google Password Manager → Bitwarden
• Google Authenticator → Bitwarden Auth
• Google Calendar → Tuta Calendar
• Google Contacts → Tuta Contacts
• Play Store → Obtainium
• Google Maps → Organic Maps
• No VPN → Mullvad VPN
You don't have to switch everything overnight.
Even replacing just a few apps can make a big difference.
The whole world of tech wants open source AI to remain freely available... EXCEPT not Google (evil!), not OpenAI (insane god complex!) and not Anthropic (whiney little bitch).
100% predictable they would oppose decentralized access to machine intelligence, so they could try to create monopolies and censorship for their own power and profit.
Today makes it absolutely clear:
- F-ck Google.
- F-ck OpenAI.
- F-ck Anthropic.
I hope they collapse in the coming AI investment bubble correction.
And I am 100% rooting for open source AI and mass decentralization of machine cognition.
Anthropic is a company that, from its founding to this day, has never open-sourced a single model in its entire history. It not only collects data everywhere without authorization, has been sued over it, and lost the case, but has also continually attacked and smeared the open-source contributions of other AI labs, especially Chinese ones, monitored users and treated them with hostility, devoted itself so heavily to promoting AI doomsday narratives that it has even tripped itself up over them, held firmly to the belief that open source means unsafe and uncontrollable, opposed and obstructed the release of open model weights, excessively exaggerated national security crises and social risks, and exploited emotional fear for hype and marketing, all to maintain its own technological lead and keep itself at the center of a high-profile narrative.
I've been extensively using Kimi-K3 for research for a new documentary series I'm producing, and I'm just blown away: ZERO refusals. Kimi-K3 just does what you ask. And it's very, very good at doing it. While Anthropic, OpenAI or Google models just lecture you all day, refuse to do useful things, and puke up twisted knowledge that seems to be all distilled from the low-IQ dungeon layers of Reddit.
If you want AI tools that work and don't treat you like a child to be scorned, use Kimi-K3 or other AI from China. (DeepSeek is also very productive, as is Qwen, etc.)