Nah that's pretty funny

This is such a beautiful passage OP

how the broken pieces of life I throw out to sea always resurface and shimmer in ways that make them enticing

I'm not there. My game is faltering.

LOL

Oh my god it's actually way worse they're using incredibly broad regular expressions to blacklist users. There's a whole section for it.

If you just happen to have the same text in your username as a previously blacklisted user, you're blacklisted automatically too. For example:

"^Fleure", 

If your username is Fleure_1998 or FleuresArePretty you're going to be blacklisted.

Isn't there a less draconian way to manage alt-account spam? This is casting the net over the whole ocean and eventually if that user regex list gets big and broad enough it'll be near impossible to not be shadowbanned by default.

ALSO WHY IS YURI BLOCKED HELLO?????

Oh my god this is actually me. I'm locked in someone's basement. There's a dog cage and no dog 🥰

So everyone's seen that one video 💀

"NOO!! The free thing you're providing for free that my business is mooching off of changed and I don't want to learn how to use package managers 😡"

Jennifer poops at parties?..... really?

What do I do if I don't have any of the supported devices : (

If it's something with a solid reputation, and a history of good code curation. Maybe backed by a non-profit foundation ( e.g FUTO, KDE's mobile apps ). I dont have any issue allowing whatever permissions it requests right off the bat.

If something ever ever happened with KDE Connect. There'd be hellfire, and shouting all over the internet for miles and miles. KDE is one of the organizations that actually has the resources and manpower to properly vet contributions. KDE hosts their own git client, with their own credentials, and their own dedicated team ( A bad actor can't just push a harmful update directly without humans reviewing it). They've also been doing this for longer than I've even been alive, they don't ask for a profit, and they make a damn good desktop environment so I guess I feel comfortable trusting apps from their F-droid repo xD

You could spend time manually reviewing the source for every FOSS application you install, which isn't a terrible idea. But at the end of the day it does matter to an extent how much you trust an individual / organization. And how open that individual / organization is to the community.