My belief is that no, it wouldn’t - because the posts don’t contain identifiable information about people. I’m not an expert, though, and I’d love for someone to come and correct me if I’m wrong.

Edit: I just saw that @S4nvers gave a more detailed answer than me a bit lower down, essentially agreeing with me but quoting the relevant part of GDPR to explain why.

People see bitcoin/blockchain, don’t know the difference between the two, and realise other people have made lots of money on it. Same people see a new thing which also uses (or in their eyes, “is”) blockchain, and think this is going to be the new way to make money.

Hopefully more and more will join the indefinite blackout.

Huffman’s memo that dismissed the whole thing shows that nothing can be achieved with just a 2-day blackout.

From the point of view of the mods, there isn’t really anything to lose by staying dark. It’s not costing them revenue having their subs shut down. Hopefully most of them will realise that indefinite is the way to go!

I often found that on the bigger subs on Reddit. The smaller subs is where I liked to make myself heard. Lemmy, right now, looks to be a similar size to some of those subs, so hopefully it should be a great place!

PS - this is my first post here!