Take a bow.

While ARC is interesting it is available for neither Android or Windows, which was OPs requirements.

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

We’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves for that.

You don’t have right to free speech on the Diablo forums.

In the immortal words of John Blutarsky, "Why not?"

Don’t fool yourself. Lemmy has karma, it’s just not presented in the default UI.

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

Apparently the admins at Universodon had no problem putting this drama to rest weeks ago:

The nda wasn’t because of some absurd agreement but just the fact they’re launching a new project and we’re getting access to engineers and product team to discuss what the relationship could be. And they went well. https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110600321409021802

There was no deal signing or any bullshit like that - that’s all fake news.

The nda is because none of this stuff is released and it’s up to meta to share details or admins to join the ongoing calls to learn in advance of launch what is going on.

I don’t know why this blew up like it did.

It’s admins doing due diligence ahead of a major product launch and getting access to engineers on the teams making it happen. https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110600310078347561

Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.

I signed up three days before that post. They were the largest instance with open signups. Almost 1000 users.

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.