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The comment I replied to wasn't

Fbook Messenger, which is also supposed to be E2EE

Facebook messenger has never claimed to be e2e encrypted

This text doesn't look very green. Maybe it's stained red with Anon's blood?

Well that's shit, no wonder online discussion groups / safe spaces are so popular over there. That does raise a different issue though, the USA-dominated (and consequently often USA-centric) view presumably warps the view of people seeking help from places where they can and should be talking to real medical professionals.

Yeah, why would you trust a professional with legal responsibilities and a duty of care when you can go to an anonymous forum where I'm sure everyone tells the truth all the time and always has your best interests at heart!

Obviously I'm being facetious and I get your point that taking to your peers is very important, but careful not to slip into the rampant anti-intellectualism and distrust of "so-called experts" which fuels all the insane conspiracy shit we see all over the internet nowadays.

It doesn't seem to be snobbery, the concern is more that big corp with money to throw around muscles their way in and changes what the Fediverse is either through EEE, or just by being bigger

Anon should have played Left 4 Dead

Oh yeah I agree with you. I'm building on your point and questioning OOP's use of IQ!

Also IQ is not intelligence. I'm seeing more and more posts from people who talk about IQ like it's their real-life INT stat. Is this just an American thing? Do people use the terms interchangeably or are you guys all doing IQ tests regularly and ranking yourselves by how good you are at puzzles?

Judging from some of the other comments in this thread I'm not so sure

Given the backlash against everyone who tries to make a reddit-lemmy mirroring bot then hopefully you've saved yourself a headache in the future!

I imagine most of the big servers have them blocked but it's probably the individual servers that make up the majority of the numbers. If you're self-hosting then you can just ignore instances you don't like and be relatively confident they won't hassle you. The other kind though, probably want to preempt them!