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I'm curious tho': the fediverse is very much a Linux-friendly idea. What made you think there were "less"(relatively) Linux users?

I can run this on a potato if I wanted and it would run great

I mean, I'm running mine on a Raspberry Pi Zero2 which is somehow less powerful than a potato and it does run pretty well.

Ah! We all know you actually did it to play Minesweeper!

I was talking in general. One could easily route everything to "robot snitch" without even using an instance, just scraping the public posts.
Heck, the government could do it directly. No real reason to pass through "robo-snitch".

I think "permissions" and "legit use" are the main problems here.

So, you made it smaller and now it's called GT? I'll let you know it's taking me GREAT effort to not make puns and jokes! GREAT GOLDEN effort, I tell you!

(sigh) so now I am wary to use #Fediverse at all now not knowing which of whatever I may have 'politically' said would be routed to ICE.

No offense but... malicious actors(or anybody with a grudge against you) were always been able to do that, as you are posting publicly(same as me).
Posting on public-facing social networks, including the #fediverse, always was talking loud in a public place.

I'm more worried\irritated by the LLM training scraping.

The simplest answer is "any of them".
A more complex answer is "depending on your skill level and how much you want to bother"

Let's assume limited skill so to make this reply possibly useful for as many people as possible.

The best part is that most distro nowadays are available as #LiveDistribution so you can put them on a USB stick and try them to see if you like them and they work well on your system, no strings attached.

The most popular answer is usually #LinuxMint: it's widely used, widely supported and available with an official Xfce version.
#Xfce is a #DesktopEnvironment (henceforth: DE), what manages the actual program windows(to simplify a bit), made with older systems(think Windows7 and older) in mind so less bell&whistles but lighter on CPU and RAM.
You can change it to a "cooler" one(i.e.: #GNOME, #KDE, #Cinnamon, #Mate) later anyway if you want: this is only the "starting look" so to say, to minimize\simplify impact.
Do note Mint is derived from #Ubuntu, with a number of changes(generally taken as improvements), and Ubuntu has been taking decision not everybody like(a #Debian based version is also available).

Another option is #OpenSUSE, currently enjoying a bit of extra popularity due it being developed mostly in the #EU and not derived from other pre-existing distributions. Multiple DEs are available at installation.

#Debian, with its Stable version, is THE paragon when talking about long term stability at cost of using older version of programs. You can manually install more recent ones but that increase the complexity perhaps beyond the scope of the request.
I haven't installed it in decade but I recall the installer not being the most user-friendly. Of course things can have changed wildly since then.

If you dislike having an invasive service manager, you can try out #AntiX, #MXLinux or #Devuan.
...but that might be beyond the complexity limit scope of the request.
Note: MX Linux and Devuan are specifically derived from Debian Stable.

#snac (up to 2.92-dev) doesn't so... signalling @grunfink@comam.es

Should I open a formal issue on codeberg?

So, you don't like anti-tampering hash and signatures? Because the basic logic is the same.
Yeah, food delivery is underpaid(and you shouldn't use it because of that) but at the same time messing up with food is dangerous.
And there are assholes out there in the delivery business.

Plus one would have paid for a full portion, not a partially eaten one.
I respect workers but I also expect to be respected.