I do this sometimes to test my own mental fortitude. Haven’t gotten sucked down any rabbit holes lately, but some ragebait is still pretty effective on me, even when I know what it’s doing. It’s like some evil placebo effect.

Guess they should have aspired harder.

It’s funny you should mention that, because they go out of their way to specifically say that they aren’t!

What kind of “real trouble” can a trillionaire even get into? Unless somebody makes a huge effort to cause him physical harm (or his family, I guess, but… yikes), he’s basically immune to consequences.

yeah I was expecting more pushback on this, but maybe we’re not an irrationally exuberant group here on the fediverse :)

No argument there. Any port in a storm.

Right, though on a largeish instance with a limited blocklist you won’t see much difference (new communities mostly)

Every Lemmy instance has a built-in search tool that can be used to search across instances (make sure the slider at the top is set to “All”, it usually defaults to “Local”). Browsing All for a while will show you a decent cross-section of the most active communities (just make sure to tighten your filters). And there are some 3rd party search tools like https://lemmyverse.net/ that do periodic trawls of posts and traffic.

lol “bubble fuckers.” I am definitely stealing that.

I’m considering thundermail, though it’s new and not perfect. Data is hosted in the EU, they don’t market your data, and it’s managed by the thunderbird subsidiary of the Mozilla group. Some basic things like E2E and at rest encryption are either half-baked or missing, but their project plan looks promising and they include calendar and contact sync as well.

The two “the”s let you know how serious they are.

sorry, I just can’t upvote anything that shows Sam Altman’s butt crack.