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Just to be clear, I'm not accusing lemmy (whoever / whatever that is as a 'thing) of adding messages, but bad actors are doing so to control the short-term narrative for (perhaps, mainly) capitalist reasons.

Kinda like propaganda gone wild. A Cambridge Analytica's former employee book, mindfuck is a good read.

I have about 300GB of personal data on the system

That's a lot of porn!

First thing to do is to prune the data and remove what you don't need. Be brutal (it really takes practise).

I wonder how many people around the world are laughing at USA right now.

Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: ~~deniers~~ idiots.

FTFY!

1. no they weren't. no moving of goalposts
2. what's my number then?
3. amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.

signal accounts... signal accounts everywhere!

perfect for the everyday user

...because of course, they don't need privacy, do they now. "Nothing to hide" and all that jazz.

But like TOR, can entry / exit nodes be used to tie the two ends together through e.g. timing attacks?

I sure it's possible if an African/Hawaii resident/American person can.

Mr Blobby has no nationality though.

Mr Blobby wouldn't take any shit.

Did you know Noel Edmonds believe(d?) that cancer can be cured by positive thoughts?

Phone numbers are one way. Paid accounts are another.

Rubbish. How would this stop bots? Bots are created to make money. What makes you think creators don't have a phone number, or be prepared to pay to spam.