Deref

That's probably a kbin UI bug

Don't do that. Deleting your account is enough and some of your comments might be useful info that doesn't exist anywhere else.

Sort by hot (or new if hot doesn't work) instead of active.

Valve has a pretty unique flat structure that could protect them from a corporate buyout, even more if Gaben decides to transfer ownership into an employee trust and turn it into a full co-op when he leaves.

Even in the US there's no law against hosting encrypted files. They could be liable if they knew a specific file was illegal/pirated and didn't take it down but a recent SCOTUS case (think it was Twitter v Taamneh) set the precedent that general knowledge of illegal activity is not enough.

It's their decision and you should respect that. I also don't agree with the defederation and the rest of their policies but you can just not use it. No need to turn this into a political conflict.

Do you know where kbin shows the list of defederated instances? I can't find anything like that, there's just the modlog.

Mint is very opinionated and made explicitly for less technical users. If you have basic command line skills (or you're willing to learn) Fedora gives you more choice and in my experience it's actually more reliable than Debian based distros.

This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don't have money wouldn't destroy everything like in RARBG's case.

Email addresses are not private info. You don't have to put your real name in them.

Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.

So far it just looks like there will be a couple of instances who defed from everyone else, not a large scale split. Reddit refugees are mostly average users, not radical leftists like those who left Twitter for Mastodon.