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Probably something for @[email protected]

Thanks, that’s an interesting read.
I know that’s one person’s opinion and not a thorough research, but that’s still plenty of red flags.

I’ve used the 100 searches in the free trial, thought the search was fine, better than Google’s these days. The subscription is a bit steep so I held off, kinda glad I did after digging more into this.

Having what little employees they have also make a mac-only browser, AI stuff and email that their user base doesn’t seem to want is all a bit weird.
Buying a t-shirt factory (wtf) with the money they could have used to potentially lower the subscription, but decided to burn through it to give out free t-shirts. That just screams narcissism-driven to me.

Their vague statements on privacy isn’t convincing at all.
Some variation of “we don’t care about your data” isn’t in any way compelling evidence that you care about protecting the privacy of said collected data.

In my opinion they lack focus, commitment and conviction into what I thought was their primary mission at first glance: being a privacy-focused no nonsense search engine.
Although that’s probably on me for reading what I wanted to see between the lines and that never was their stated mission, which would explain a lot.

Yup.
This kind of spam has been going on for a while and is usually removed promptly.
Sorry, I think our local murder bot was offline at the time.
Anyway, they’ve since been banned along with a several alt accounts.
Don’t hesitate to report those if you see more.

Oh and I think we would rather not advertise their spam URL if you wouldn’t mind editing the link out from the quoted part.

Thanks,

I have a couple of friends and family members who i think are probably here, but we don’t talk about it.

This. Same as it was on reddit back then too.

a home-instance temp ban will override a remote instance perma ban (there’s a PR in the works to fix this , but it’s the way things are currently)

The way things work now is annoying.

Troll creates an account on instance A, posts racist shit or other uninspired bait on instance B.
Gets instantly permabanned from instance B.
3 days later, home instance A decides to ban them for a week.
Thus, a week later, user is automatically unbanned from home instance and all federated instances, including where they were permabanned.
Current behaviour is bananas.

This particular troll’s lack of creativity is unsurprising.

On par for people complaing about a ban.

Cool project.
TBH, I’m just about to locally ban a few kbin magazines that are just completely overrun with spam.
Wish they’d delegate some of the moderation at least.

They targeted smaller unattended mastodon and misskey instances… to create accounts there and post their spam all over the place including larger instances and lemmy.
Several hundred posts were removed since then.

Being on lemmy, I never really used kbin much.
All I know is there’s a ton of spam coming from there, and their moderation seems spread thin.

The way I see it, Meta and Zuck are a far far stretch from deserving either trust or benefit of the doubt.
Wait and see, sure, but I can be defederated while doing the waiting.

If for some magical reason, it turns out great, then we can just refederate once they’ve proven themselves.

Wolfgirl: feed is broken, or possibly just denied until you login. Don’t care enough to make an account. About page:

It’s not a war crime if you had fun doing it.
I reserve the right to bully you in any way my administration powers allow, or just normally.

Eh.

FCE: broken, 50/50 chance of malware, meh.

Most of these are gonna be pedo/lolicon stuff, closely followed by unmoderated hate and spam instances.