GuyDudeman

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

Yep. Lemmy is the future of Reddit.

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 believe how it works is the comment from the user on the defederated instance and ALL child comments of it do not show up on your instance. So it’s as if that conversation just stopped after the last person from an instance that you’re federated with commented. You wouldn’t see anything from defederated commenters or the replies to them, even if they are replies from Instances you’re still federated with.

Login to Beehaw and check out a post from a Lemmy.ml community on it, and then look at that same post while logged into Lemmy.world and you should see the differences - because Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world.

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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?

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I think my superpower would be to be able to communicate to anyone in a way in which they always fully understood my meaning.

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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