There are ways to get Monero without compromising your identity. I suggest looking or asking here: https://monero.town/c/monero

It’s a waste of time to argue with fascists anyway.

Don’t feed the trolls

It’s the chicken and egg problem. People don’t move to Mastodon because there are less users and there are less users because people don’t move.

However if someone consumes less social media because there are “less people making noise”, I consider that a good thing.

Any closed-source software is a potential privacy threat. You are always at the mercy of big tech in that case. If the product is free, you are the product