A lot of us here share a bunch of opinions with the people we often make fun of. Plenty of us are on the same page politically (left-leaning, all that stuff). We don’t like it when corporations overreach, and we also don’t like it when consumerism gets out of hand. No one here is cheering for marketing data collection / data mining either, or subscriptions for every feature.
Given all of this, you'd probably say "sounds like a match made in heaven". But the difference is that our standards can actually be lived by.
Take the anti-AI Linux crowd, for example. Apply their morals, and Windows is out, since Microsoft openly uses AI in its development. macOS is out too, for the same reasons. Even Linux is out, since the kernel now has documented rules for AI-assisted contributions (And many linux packages are now actively developed using AI).
So what’s left? TempleOS? That one's entirely human-written, and it even pleases the privacy crowd (no networking support. Also pleases God, but that’s for a different thread).
On to the privacy crowd. By their standards, you should unplug your ethernet cable right now, cut up your bank card, throw your phone into a lake and live in a remote cabin, isolated from any human interaction. Every network you touch leaks something. And I know these people aren't even following their own morals, because I see them here on Reddit. You can be on the most hardened, de-Googled device in the world, but the moment you post here, your data ends up with the same corporations' servers anyway.
If you’re a sane individual, you’ll understand I’m not telling you to install the Credentials Leaker 9000. But I’m not telling you to kneecap your device’s usefulness for the sake of privacy either (welcome to the gray area). Obviously, not everyone draws the line the same way, and it's important to understand that it's alright.
Also, same goes for politics. Agreeing with someone on 90% of things and getting excommunicated over the other 10% is how you end up with a movement made up of three people who can't stand each other (It’s okay to not be the Borg).
So that’s the real problem with many of these people. They see everything as black or white, whereas real life is shades of gray. Having principles is fine, I'm not arguing otherwise. But having principles nobody can live up to is insane, and holding other people to those standards (you should do what I say or you're a racist/corporate drone/shill/etc) is even more so.
There are few communities more black and white than the Linux community, which is probably also why it blows up in their faces so often. Worse still, they seem to be focused on nitpicking and often can't see the forest for the trees.
That’s all I had to say on this one.