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You could engineer it so users could provide their own algorithm.

It would be a HARD engineering problem, but not impossible, IMO.

The goal should be to allow users to choose their own algorithm, including third party algorithms you can install yourself or something.

Oh I see. I misunderstood the comment then. Thanks for the clarification!

Not that this isn’t scummy but my understanding is that “ransomware” refers to software that locks a user or organization out of their systems until a fee is paid, generally my encrypting the disk.

This seems like a more traditional “hack” of a system where you get in and download data. Which makes threatening them is traditional blackmail.

It’s a really interesting way to get around copyright without needing to make your own assets.

Yeah, they’re saying “look, we only have four mods, have a highly targeted type of community we are trying to build, and have had to disproportionately moderate users from these instances” which seems reasonable on it’s face.

That’s kind of the beauty of Lemmy/Kbin right? You can spin up an instance with whatever rules you want. I think people are reacting to the fact that during the Reddit exodus Beehaw kind of looked like a “default” general instance, including me.

But that’s a misreading on our part, not them going back on that.

Or they’ll just be a smallish instance building the kind of community they want to build. There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you want to be and not trying to be more.