I get anxious about getting death threats from Fedi for using Google Forms instead of self-hosting my own form generator on a Raspberry Pi. Fedi loves to do that, which, ironically, makes Twitter more friendly than Fedi sometimes.
You're absolutely right! It can be scary and create a culture of taboos, one of which is leveraging proprietary technology, using it or even acknowledging it.
How can we do better?
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@emacsen @blindscribe easy way to do better: don't send death threats
