Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

That was a bit halfhearted. You didn’t use the phrase ‘hive mind’ or anything.

OK, so you can login anonymously. Great.

The real question is; why would you want to, given that the dead bird site is a cesspool of extreme rightwing awfulness? What are you hoping to learn or take from being on there?

I’ve added <b></b><i></i> to the tags to be converted to markdown so that should be OK now.

Their apps are E2EE.

Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

Tech is fine but applying for permission to have kids (based on what criteria?) and having to present my DNA everywhere to track everything I do is several steps into overbearing state control.

You can’t complain about the dangers of totaliterianism and also make your last two bullet points with a straight face.

“Video is not rated. Log in to watch”

Nope.

I remember after finishing Animal Farm I immediately started planning my world takeover utilising farmyard animals as shock troops.