Information to ransom, among other things that sebinspace said.
HIV diagnosis? STD diagnosis? Someone on hormones for gender-affirmijg purposes? Abortions? In places where these may or may not be legal or safe for such knowledge to be public, victims aren’t likely to think twice before panicking and paying up to not have their data leaked.
I wouldn’t want to be another statistic that boosts their user count that they can brag about. And if there are ads, I don’t want to be contributing monetarily to them and their ideals.
I feel this applies to “smaller” platforms like lemmy more - where a very defined group is running the show. Or massive ones with certain figureheads who talk too much shit, like where most of us came from.
In essence, it’s a matter of principles.
Come to Kbin, we have it. I don't use it though.
I went to settings and turned it all off. Didn't see that there the last time I tweaked settings. Must be new! Kudos to ernest.
Weird, I didn’t change that setting but I’m pinging everyone. I thought it was a kbin default.
@executive_chicken ipados dev beta 17 here. My keyboard is bugging and leaving extra characters at the end of sentences/messages.
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They’re trying to milk our subsidies.