Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

It’s much harder for the government and bad actors to hide backdoors in open source software than making a deal with a private company

dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

The government and bad actors use this as a strategy to attack their opponents and control public opinion.

Protests crack down on the internet has been going on for quite some time, don’t just blame it on trump but on the whole government and its infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

I literally provided concrete examples of shows doing just that. There are plenty of other examples such as Mr. Robot or V for Vendetta. Some are more subtle than others, but the message is always that resisting authority should be done by lone rebels, and loose self organizing groups. Some shows name anarchism explicitly, others merely imply it.

The examples you provided are fictional movies popular for their alternative plot. If you are interested in anarchism read authors like Malatesta, Emma Goldman, Bakunin or Kropotkin. “Anarchism” is not a football team, saying anarchists have nothing to show in over a century sounds like a misinterpretation of anarchism and an insufficient knowledge of history.

Anarchism and anti-authoritarianism are used as release valves to funnel this discontent away from serious organizing that might challenge the system.

Organization does not imply authority or rulers. Authoritarian organizations can be used as a release valve too and one could argue they are easier to manipulate and control.

They are in fact dependent on central authority as history clearly shows.

A person can have discipline and be organized without a general or ruler.

That’s the reality.

I’ve been banned and censored before from this sub and lemmy.ml simply for challenging the narrative. I’m not going to reply here any further. You are welcome discussing authority in a less authoritarian sub where none of us will be silenced.

The promotion of anarchism within capitalist media, coupled with the suppression of Marxist thought, is damning evidence against anarchism as viable opposition to capitalist hegemony.

Over here capitalist media and state media are the same outlet and never in my life i’ve seen them promoting anarchism. They don’t even mention anarchists as such unless when it’s useful to portrait “anarchism” under bad light, they are usually referred to “extremists” or “antagonists”.

Meanwhile, history demonstrates time and again that revolutions require centralized authority to dismantle oppressive systems.

This sound like a generalization that isn’t necessarily true and one could argue that replacing an oppressive system with another is no revolution at all.

Capitalism tolerates anarchism precisely because it poses no systemic threat

I’m not sure where you live, in pretty much every country in the world self thought is discouraged and education is rooted in conformism.

while revolutionary movements succeed only by embracing disciplined, organized force.

Discipline and organization are not dependent on a central authority. State media is working hard in making sure you don’t hear about success from “others”.

Your phone number is tied to your identity, there are no reasons to ask it to begin with.

None of them are good or private

Signal is centralized and require a phone number to register, it’s not private at all.

Sort of agree but look how much he’s done for Linux gaming.

Let’s not forget that Steam is a proprietary third party launcher that doesn’t share any values with linux. Valve built the apple store of videogames, while they are now moving in a better direction keep in mind that they are part of the problem.

We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform. Steam is closed as much as reddit is.

Promoting gambling to kids and use the profits to buy multiple mega yachts is peak scum.

Yes, their profits.

Minecraft is yet another example of no expections. Minecraft is proprietary and they never lowered the price even after making millions, they actually increased it. It was sold to one of the worst company in the world for even more money.

After making millions a normal person would have make the game publicly available or at last free and they wouldhave never sell it to microsoft.

They do what every for profit company in the world does, they try to make as much money as possible and they spend money in advertising.

Honestly, the secret is not being a publicly traded company.

Valve fortune doesn’t come from not being traded publicly. They built a nearly monopoly on pc videogames with their walled garden proprietary third party launcher.

His company is working damn hard to make sure you believe they don’t do nothing. All billionares are scum.

The whole network is de facto centralized on Matrix.org

That’s not true there’s plenty of people using different homeservers

Go ahead and send me your phone number. If you don’t want to do it please provide data that i’m compromised.

It takes 2 to tango. It’s like trying to send an email from a self-hosted email server without following all of Google’s rules/guidelines…

Don’t say bullshit, a chat is not mails, matrix federation works similarly to lemmy

Matrix is centralized too in practice

There are plenty of different available homeservers and you can host yours.

It is not. We are on a privacy sub on lemmy, services that require mandatory phone number are far away from been fine to use.