A “real answer” is rarely as credible as an article with quotes including time and place, as well as citing statistics and peer reviewed studies. In fact, I’d wager the amount of misinformation on Lemmy is a very high ratio. People are even writing entire fanfictions about current events to fit their narrative.

Yeah no shit, you still can’t got 5 minutes without seeing his fucked up brow because of zealots.

Pretty sure the exact reason for the fediverse was to build social networks that were resistant to any one person or group of people expressing influence over the whole.

The reason not being about anarchy or having to put up with stupid bullshit like murder worship if we don’t want to.

I assure you, seeing a bunch of losers literally worship a jailed murderer is very far from important to me. I actually like him less every day because of how twisted your perceptions of him are, but now you’ve escalated to organized religion level? Whats next, gonna go door to door preaching about him? Beg for donations outside of Walmart? Make schools give a fake copy of his manifesto equal representation as real theory?

If it’s important to you pushy bastards, just make your own community or instance about it.

Maybe it’s being downvoted by normal people because it’s cringe as fuck?

Millenial here, Fuck Brutalist Modern and Responsive Web Design! If they ever dumb down the interface: I’m out of here.

Huh…?

But the Instances themselves can customize all they like…?

The timing of it all just didn’t add up. Reddit started small, too. By the time Reddit failed, Fediverse was still in its infancy, and the communities either stayed in corporate hell or found somewhere else.

Not every court order is a criminal case.

NY Times vs Njalla

Njalla does comply with some requests, and was forced to shut down some pirate bay instances at one point, though. Ghost is another privacy domain seller.

Theres also a term for companies called “Bulletproof Registrars.” For example, some Malaysian Registrars apparently don’t have an address and cannot actually recieve most subpoenas.

Mostly VPNs, I don’t know too much about similar cases with server hosts or domain sellers.

It comes down to the individual company on whether or not to fight requests for user information. A lot of precedent exists for not complying.

I’m saying if you payed for a service to host your instance remotely. The domain, the site pages, the the database, everything. Then, everything on the domain would be tied to your person and the service providers have a certain power over your instance aside from just turning off your domain. There are more options to not list or to delist from the WhoIs registry for simple domain purchases.

I just have trust issues, you don’t need to mind my crazy ramblings.

You should be good as long as you know PostgreSQL

Same way things get leaked by Equifax, Twitch, US Bank, etc. You’re most responsible with your information by not having unnecessary accounts or transactions.

Also, most hosts have WhoIs and ICANN registrations for Domains, but you still need a domain regardless. And further than that they might allow subpeonas from various companies who request the info.

How much server hosting experience do you have? I asked about database preferences over in Self-Hosting once and they basically all said “don’t choose a database ever. Run. Save yourself while there is still time!”

So maybe use a hosting service I guess. Makes you a more difficult target for attacks but also involves your information getting out into the world in direct connection to your instance.

Fully anonymous porn viewing is something very much coveted, and there is also a huge industry whose target audience is net denizens so you could also make an argument that the number of users is inflated by the industry users.

One of the problems is that Lemmy.ml is literally run by some of the people who developed Lemmy and it’s one of the few instances on https://join-lemmy.org/instances and the one with the highest number of users listed there with the exception of lemmynsfw.

1. You know all of those politicians and scientists people like to follow? Well, they’re still on Xitter.

2. I remember their “official” app claimed it was a third party app on the stores, which probably put off a lot of potential users. Any phone users will be getting an app by some randos no matter what they pick, which is a big trust issue for many of us.

Until that API nonsense I was always using old.reddit because the redesign was ass.

Discord is cool tho, better than skype gui for sure.

Much easier access.

You make a reddit account or a discors account and you have limited access to thousands of forums.

Imagine giving your email address and making a password and solving a captcha hundreds of times instead. Who would choose to?

And don’t even get me started on the ease of operating these subreddits and discord channels instead of building and hosting websites.