And then get smack from the people you were having a stroll with like “why tf would you put that in your pocket just throw it on the ground like a normal person!”
Buying from, and supporting the artist directly, IMO.
Many European metal bands host their own webshop selling their merchandise, records, cassettes and CDs; many small and independent musicians sell their songs on Bandcamp (US based website that does take a cut from each payment, 15% I believe goes to Bandcamp, so that is something to keep in mind)
What metadata does XMPP leak?
AFAIK only when a message was sent, roughly (in large increments) how large the message was, the server of the sender knows from who to which server, the server of the recipient knows from which server to who.
I find it strange that Signal somehow doesn't know when a message was sent, and from who to who; how would they ever make this possible?
Also, you say you have yet to find any other free service that collects as little data... How about most e-mail providers?
Not Google and Microsoft of course, but most e-mail providers only need a name which can be made up as well.
You hm also host your own email server, then you are in control.
All of this is true for XMPP and Matrix, as well.
And then get smack from the people you were having a stroll with like “why tf would you put that in your pocket just throw it on the ground like a normal person!”
We live in a society.