Exactly, it is “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers,” and not a community for spreading nonsense like Google secretly listening to your conversations to better recommend YouTube videos to you.

Found the Java developer.

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Reason: BS

Maybe I should have removed this post, because it is ridiculous.

This is very much believable, and a thousand times more believable than your phone listening to you to send you ads.

Trick or treat is a threat. They can’t refuse you treats because of the implication.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Trashfire of a post

Some people can’t simply downvote and move on with their day, they have to tell me about it 🤷

If a comment were removed from instance A, you could go look at the same post on instance B and see whether the comment is also removed there. You don’t need a user account on either instance to do this.

You’d have Musk-levels of wealth before long, so maybe.

The Sun will eventually fry all life on Earth and boil off the water & atmosphere. Eventually the Sun will die out completely, leaving you on a cold, dark rock.

Why would it need to be monitored? I can’t think of a reason that an instance would not want to honor them, and if they were to, someone would eventually notice and complain. I don’t see a value in monitoring/policing it.

Possibly this was me yesterday.

While such requests could be intentionally ignored, I’m not of aware of a case where any actually have been. I can’t see why anyone would, and going rogue like that is liable to get your instance defederated.

It’s not that, it’s that I’d like to know more about this battery technology.

🌳 Now don’t be hasty, Master Meriadoc. I would wait a bit and see how things play out. It could resolve itself in some workable-enough way, or some org may do a hard fork. We don’t really know what’s going to happen.

I wish this article weren’t so light on details.

There are a few China Bad Times stans who reliably downvote anything remotely positive about China.

Ooooooh, that explains why the whippets weren’t kicking in.

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Oh. That’s what I get for making wild-assed guesses from the first page of search results ¯\_(ツ)_/¯