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Fake?! https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ

It may be worth thinking about how/where could this be implemented in the simple interface... as a future improvement.

Of course you can pin and follow hastags in Mastodon.

1. Search for a hashtag (e.g. #web in the search bar).
2. Click on the hashtag (#web here, as an example).
3. You will see a column #web open in the web interface at the far end.
4. You can pin this hashtag column by clicking on the three settings leavers at the top of the hashtag column, then selecting Pin.

The developers of Lemmy the software have no power to take anything down, provided you set up your own server and host the Lemmy software yourself. Any hosted server (lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml... etc, ) can decide on their own rules they wish their users to follow though.

To be clear I don’t mean to shit on the platform, I’m just approaching it with a lot of cynicism.

It seemed to me you meant to imply that you, unfortunately, dislike Julian Assange?

associate themselves with Wikileaks and/or Julian Assange

What's wrong with that?

There are no content warnings on Lemmy yet. But would it be somehow possible to ban content containing certain specific keywords, or tags from federating (and all images would be required to provide a descriptor tag before posting) from showing up, similar perhaps a bit to how the slur-filter works?

Not really. GPL is a left wing license. It literally enforces cooperation, and collaboration, which're communal values, rather than individualism.

I don’t think it’s the best approach to promote Element specifically, but rather Matrix.org, which does have good mobile clients, like Fluffychat on iOS, and good desktop clients, like Mirage.