But does it remove spyware/tracking/surveillance? In fact spyware should be removed without any discrimination based on paying or not for it, otherwise it still breaks GDPR privacy laws.
"The reason I'm posting on Mastodon is because the future I want is one that's based on interoperability. I want to see an open protocol that isn't dependent on a tech-lord's whim. ActivityPub is currently the one that looks most developed."
This. so much. And also it is not repeating the same corporate for-profit business model that FB/X/Twitter and other also have and has led to nothing but enshittification. Let's not repeat the same mistake and go to something really different this time and Mastodon/ActivityPub is it.
Yup I always prefer proper packages instead of flatpaks or even worse the snaps. In fact I wish more software developers woulduse Open Build Service and create many packages for many distros: https://openbuildservice.org/