Your assertions are not supported by industry analysis.

While this years survey is closed, the results haven’t been published. In last year’s survey, MacOS slightly edged out Linux, moving to second place.

Are we really doing this, yet again?

The question I see unanswered is whether the victim had survivability under any circumstances.

Ding ding ding

TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.

That’s literally my only question. Why is this such a big deal, now?

This was put to bed weeks ago on a Mastodon thread that included all the big MastoAdmims.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110599608755384963

And we haven't even gotten to the part where we've actually established that someone did or did not have a conversation never mind whether anyone signed an NDA so my question remains, unaltered and unanswered.

Last post received in my instance from them was over an hour ago. I usually see one or two a minute. Comments stopped at the same time and those are usually about every 5 seconds.

It all depends upon how each individual uses the platform. You'd be surprised how many people inadvertently dox themselves over time.

Not all accounts tie back to arbitrary user names. There are plenty of people who know each other IRL or whose public identities are generally known. There's a lot more potential eyeballs that can possibly build heatmaps of activity that could out "burner accounts", for example, or otherwise make connections that aren't readily apparent via the user interface. An overly- simplified example is I can easily tie your lemmy.world and lemm.ee accounts together without having to jump through any interface hoops. That may be of no concern to you but that doesn't mean it's of no concern to anybody else.

I, some shmuck in his basement, can build a user profile and fingerprint of you the same way so many people are concerned is happening at commercial platforms.

There's pretty much no admin interface at this point.

This is pretty much the answer. The number of people who actually made the decision based on "reasons" is very few.

I'd be surprised if they weren't.