I don’t think your assumption on how well I understand how the professional world works is correct.

I understand very well that signing any NDA is by no means “zero risk”, it has a definite risk attached to it. Declining it is costly in some way, but also has definite advantages.

I also understand that very rarely is the phrasing ever “this conversation will be off the record”, but rather some phrasing including the specific topics that may not be shared, like you say for example, product details. Blanket phrasings like this are always very sketchy.

Stop using “All” “Hot/Active/Top” feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to “Subscribed”.

This is not a proper talk by meta that you could just “hear them out”. They explicitly said off the record and confidential, there’s no reason for that if it’s something innocuous. There 100% would be an NDA involved.

The fediverse is all about being open, starting with an NDA is definitely not “zero risk”, you can not slip up ever, or you’re going to be destroyed by lawyers, this is the exact opposite of “zero risk”.

You could just make a simple duplicate email check with special special handling of gmails + and . behavior, and notify the user if they try to create an account for an already registered email.

To be precise, they were talking about monthly active users in the post, not total user accounts, which you are talking about. Might be that their stats only count people who actually voted/commented/posted something.

The rival platform is “Kick” in case anyone wants to not open the article but still wants to know which it is.

Ah yes, /r/technology, the only technology subreddit on reddit. There certainly has never existed a https://www.reddit.com/r/technews/, or / https://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/ or a bunch of more technology subreddits. No. Of course there ever only was /r/technology. No fragmentation whatsoever on reddit.

I mean user data can very much be completely inferred from API calls. It’s not about the user data itself, it’s about being able to say to advertisers “all our users will see your ads”.

Of course there are, there’s lots of cool people in the world. However, it’s still disheartening to see that the vast majority is not.

When you go around anywhere, you’ve got to expect that 95% are just ignorant or don’t care. But 5% of people that do care is still a lot and for me enough to not be completely discouraged.

While it’s not easy to host email, it’s still possible. There’s still good email providers out there as well. So while it’s not perfect, it’s still better than if it was fully centralized.

I expect roughly the same from Lemmy.

I mean in this case, you can decide between some theory based on no information at all but unaffiliated, or based on all information but biased.

There’s still a good chance that the downtime is unexpected, downtime in general is never good for a site that earns money by people being on it.

So I think the “unexpected” case is still more likely than it being intentional.

You do everything from your home server.

So you’re at feddit.it, instead of going to https:/lemmy.world/c/lemmy.world you go to https://feddit.it/c/[email protected]

I don’t know how posting between mastodon and lemmy works.

And yes, if your instance dies, your account is gone. Mastodon has a “transfer account to another instance” feature, but Lemmy does not yet, but I’m pretty sure redundancy in some form is planned.

To expand, every user has their custom set of content that they want to see, which needs to be queried from the database. Mainly their subscriptions, those will rarely be the same between any two users, and they need to be aggregated according to the sorting method the user wants. Or other personal things, like every user’s messages/replies/notifications/settings.