There’s nothing you can do for profile data, public key encryption is an option for DMs.

Every app is a dating app if you use it wrong enough.

One of the advantages of votes being public is that it keeps instance owners honest and, perhaps more importantly, means they know other instance owners are honest.

If they weren’t public it would be easy to modify your lemmy instance to send 10 votes with fake hashes for every real vote. There would be constant accusations of brigading and faking votes.

Honestly a decentralised craigslist would be great.

If what instance you chose truly didn’t matter this wouldn’t be as big of an issue. Unfortunately defederation causes a tangled mess of netsplits.

Are mastodon users stupid or just on a which hunt

Yes

Pretty sure lemmy can have the defaults set to local only, so you can keep the federation on, but by default local users only see local stuff.

Mastodon and witchunts, name a more iconic duo.

If you interpret their sub rule “Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology” in the strictest sense then I guess anything about FUTO is against their rules, since it isn’t open source.

Still seems a bit dickish to delete comments like that. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I read it as being pronounced something like “flow-marked”

Facebook moderation is infamous for pants on head stupid false positives, but I’ve never seen one this bad.

They tried to fundraise for a head of trust and safety last month, but failed.

People aren’t going to donate for unimportant things.