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and they never explain why i would use them over the more established matrix or fluxer (especially that fluxer now has federation for 2027 on their roadmap)

can’t have your cake and eat it too. the way federation works means bigger instances will always have more influence, but it’s a double edged sword. They cannot defederate from everything or it just turns into a normal centralized reddit knockoff, so the best thing to do is not to give in to their demands, if it gets bad enough the users will move; something else will become the next “flagship instance”.

nothing is exactly stopping you from jumping instances each time until you find someone that does not care for petty cross-site drama. username and comment history goes bust, but maybe that’s a good thing; less traceability.

fwiw i agree, the internet could do less with propaganda from world superpowers. If what you’re saying is true, i’d just find an instance that does not listen to foreign admins regarding bans; and for users i’d just block ones you do not like. no need to isolate yourself from the community any further, we’re already plenty isolated from not being on the big social medias. quokk looks like a good place for you.

Don’t how how the lemmy census is, but unless the instance refers to a specific country like lemmy.ca or feddit.org i would imagine that the split between “big three” and other countries is roughly the same, regardless if they federate or not.

I know admins can power trip, but i don’t believe that just so happens to be the case for every single instance you sign up for just because your political viewpoints are different, unless you’re incredibly confrontational about them or you’re a literal nazi fascist; which no one here likes, twitter would be a better place then.

For obvious reasons i don’t have access to comments on your previous accounts, but from what you said i would try re-evaluating whether it really is true that everyone else is the problem, and you’re 100% blameless.

as i see it, the point of lemmy and mastodon is the federation, so the infrastructure can be decentralized but the content on there isn’t. like other guy said, probably better to search for isolated forums for topics that you like. upside is that stalkers will have a way harder time tracking all of your online activity.

you’re better off not using lemmy at all then. I never really got the discrimination for the different instances anyway, it’s true that certain people tend to hang out on certain instances, but discounting everything just because of the link they chose when creating an account is dumb imo.

no because inflation, but the price will probably fall to what it would naturally grow to if the bubble didn’t exist.

no because inflation unrelated to the bubble but comparably for other stuff that had a loss in purchasing power due to inflation

no, i agree with you. i was just being facetious

i was assuming no logs policy being a given; without it, the VPN is worthless no matter how good privacy laws are in their jurisdiction.

they’re populists, and their policy is whatever gets them the most votes at the moment.

if you don’t give them any info then their jurisdiction doesn’t really matter. It might mean they’ll get shut down eventually, but it’s easy to move to a different VPN then.

price increase and yet still the cheapest i’ve seen for what they’re offering.

they’re efficient until not doing so majorly inconveniences you specifically

you can just edit the post. it’s not a problem

Blood doesn’t necessarily mean that DNA is also present.

They are, they’re even indirectly admitting it.

(unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

meaning, management has signed off on this.

they are becoming european google, hence enshittification is upon us.

(unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

ie. management signed off on this, meaning it’s just PR damage control; no one is “breaking the silence”.

without all that data they would be in the negative.