As long as some company doesn't benefit financially, even a little bit, from me doing free work then I don't really mind. I just wanted to see a community on a subject I am interested in grow. If it gets too big or too much work I will need to find new moderators and may step down altogether. It doesn't seem like that will happen any time soon.
So basically I am already here browsing and it isn't really that much of an inconvenience to click a few extra buttons on occasion to keep a community clean.
I never really used Reddit to begin with so I wouldn't call myself a Reddit refugee. I've mostly been drifting through the internet since the decline of dedicated forums.
Every instance and community is going to be different. I'd say on average people are more open to varying opinions than Reddit. A just left of center kind of vibe.
Unless you know for certain a connection is end to end encrypted you should always assume everything you are saying could be read by anyone on the planet.
Some average Joe on Lemmy is not likely to have the resources to de-anonymize you based on your internet fingerprints unless of course you state your real full name and other identifying information like your home address somewhere. So the likelihood isn't any higher on Lemmy compared to other platforms.
It might even be more likely on other platforms because they often prod you over and over for personally identifiable information. Google definitely knows who I am and how to find me while Lemmy does not. So a data breach at Google is going to be far worse.
I think the answer is no, they shouldn't be banned. What should be banned is this practice of artificial scarcity through trashing perfectly good product. They should either produce less of them or lower the price to match the demand.
Databases don't store passwords to begin with so passwords can't really be leaked. They store a hash of your password. So if your password is of sufficient length it could take 100s or 1000s of years to find a match to the hash. If you have a really short password or if the hash is using an insufficient hash algorithm then there exist these things called rainbow tables which are a list of every hash and it could simply be looked up what your password is.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. For one people would be hosting the gif on another server than the Lemmy instance. Secondly the Lemmy server isn't the thing processing the image. Your computer and browser are. Thirdly gifs are way more efficient than any video codec you can imagine by its very nature of not being a compressed video format. It is just a series of images that requires no decoding. The point of a video codec is to make a video more compressed. Not to make its playback efficient.
Do they? They state outright that they are going to abuse your privacy for profit. They have financial incentive to do so as it is their business model.
Someone who is concerned about privacy deciding to use Facebook, Threads, Instagram, Twitter or whatever instead of Mastodon or Lemmy is completely ridiculous.
I think seeing this movie in theaters in the 60s would have a drastically different impression on me. Being in my 30s I obviously wasn't alive when this movie was released. I have seen so many other wonderously imaginative works of science fiction leading up to having seen this one a few years ago. It is difficult for me to imagine this movie, which still holds up today, as being one of my first introductions into the genre in a time where such visuals and concepts were not really a thing yet.
Points on Lemmy are only for ranking posts and comments. The purpose here is for good posts and comments to stand out from bad posts and comments. Unlike Karma on reddit you do not accumulate an overall point counter on your profile. Which should potentially help reduce people posting and commenting low effort things for the sole purpose of making a number go up.
Thank goodness for that. It creates a perverse incentive to post nonsense to increase a meaningless number. We will get enough nonsense as it is.