I have yet to see any porn.

Nobody in this entire thread of FUD has posted a single link to support any claim of Russian data intrusion.

That's gonna pull right out...

I'm gonna host my own instance, with blackjack, and hookers!

How would this be different from any browser that has Wikipedia search built in?

Seems like they stonewalled anyone that would want to develop an app.

EU: Allow users to download outside your Store.

Apple: Ok. They just have to register with us two years ago, comply to every spec and be approved by us, and they must have a million installs on our Store last year to qualify.

EU: ...that's not what we meant.

Apple: 😎

Tomorrow's news:

7 Indians killed "under mysterious circumstances"

Start posting.

Lurking in hopes that others will come is futile. When they see no content, they'll also just leave.

Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry's?

I disagree with the VPN ban, but I understand the purpose.

Isn't there a better way? Is there a back end that can be added to scan uploads for matching CSAM hashes?

https://vivaldi.com/...

The neat part about this is who gives a fuck. Pick an instance. Go subscribe to some communities. Unpopular not to support the latest witchhunt/bullshittery, I know. Most folks moved past this last year. PG is still up to date and relevant, and PTIO isn't. I could see how that would make some salty.

The VPN isn't generating the requests. Other apps on your device are. Run a VPN for a while and look at data usage by app. I guarantee your VPN app will be the highest (all the other apps data gets funneled through the VPN).

You're on the largest instance which is under severe load. Hundreds of other instances are running just fine.

Not only browsers, but operating system as well. Using GrapheneOS, eOS, or whatever?

Denied. Stock OS only on OUR internet, sorry.

If only we knew someone who knew how to bend things...

I wish it didn't take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.

MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.

Not that bad projects shouldn't die off, but it's always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive "let's try this new thing because it might be better".

Sir, please get out of the pool and go back to your room.

I'd argue point #1.

I think it is better to have two accounts, with the same subscriptions, on two vastly different instances. At least for now.
There are going to be a lot of growing pains with upgrades/updates, and things breaking. As it stands right now, if "lemmy.world" goes down, half the lemmy-verse is inaccessible.

If I have another account on say "lemmy.one", I can still connect to all the other instances (except for .world of course).

New people are going to gravitate to the largest instance because human nature suggests people want to belong to large groups. That is the intent of your point #1, to spread the load. I would clarify the objective to explain why people shouldn't have their only account on the largest instance.

Example using US states: I'm on the Pennsylvania instance. I can see what's going on in the other 49 instances, as well as the Washington DC instance (through federation). I should still have a representative in DC just in case.

I disagree with the idea that one commenter opined: "Monero is not a savings account".

Who are you to tell me what to do with my XMR?

That being said, I am not opposed to the idea of implementing some kind of condensing/snapshot that some have outlined here.

The question I'd ask is if it would ever be possible for someone to use that data maliciously?