Auster

I prefer AppImages. I find system-wide installations risky in the long run, and don’t mind managing each software myself. Plus, often I have to use super old software, and when the current programs become old themselves, it’s useful, I think, that they’re as independent as they can from dependencies that may or may not be available anymore. However, still using apt download just in case as that variant of the command also downloads dependencies.

Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don’t care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don’t award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.

FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I’d suggest supporting financially the creators.

If Mastodon is accounted for, maybe also include Peertube? I remember reading that the base project is French, just confirmation may be needed.

Accepting defeat is the quickest way for that. Humanity dealt with much worse already, and though they seem to be trying to be as bad, the push against them from the common citizen and the more reasonable of their peers in power is making momentum to be lost quickly.