Oh they were. Because they are us.

Why does it have to be “profitable”??

This is why we can’t have nice things!

Yeah, I’m really only ever going back to Reddit for comic book movie news and /r/motorsportsreplays because there isn’t a good sub on Lemmy for that yet.

Same! Lemmy definitely feels like early Reddit. Before the mods were gods and before shills and spam and porn were the norm.

Definitely not concern trolling. Just finally thinking about all this stuff. Thanks for the insight.

Is it like a grant then?

I’m not all that concerned with ACTUAL privacy/encryption but rather more concerned with lower-level things like stalking, harassment, employers doing research about their employees’ non-work habits, insurance companies, etc.

I’m not talking about doing anything illegal and hiding from authorities who can use forensics on your data. Just general anti-corporate snooping and anti-harassment privacy protection.

Like, I feel more inclined to sign up and use something more like Raddle.me instead of lemmy because the owner of that site has a philosophical mission in favor of privacy.

I think the problem here is:

Moderators of lemmy.ml are removing posts and comments which are critical of the Chinese government and are banning their authors.

Is that not a problem, in your view?

That’s excellent. What do you do for a living, by the way? Because Lemmy can’t be your day job, obviously!

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So Reddit has decided to fight back, eh?

Sync isn’t on iOS, is it?

Dude, it sounds like you are doing the right thing. The best thing to do when you feel like this is to just separate from it and get some perspective and figure yourself out. It sounds like some therapy might be helpful, as there might be some sort of paranoia going on as well. That helped me a lot, personally. Good luck to you!

Agreed. No offense intended, but I really don’t want to see furry stuff.

Ok that one actually make me lough out loud.

Interesting. Thanks!

Ahh, so I just set a display name… what do you see on your instance for me now?

Oh interesting. So it can look like they’re from your instance but they might not be?