I never presented the opinion that FOSS is useless. I'm saying FOSS isn't inherently more secure or private than a commercial or closed source app.

Sometimes FOSS apps are great, often times they are janky...which has been my experience with every FOSS lemmy app I've tried. Sometimes too their overall value compensates for the jank, but not here imo.

I've just noticed that a lot of the privacy focused or obsessed often just roll with what they know or what they read, while still taking big leaps of trust with total strangers and thinking they're perfectly secure and seemingly ignoring that threats even exist in that environment.