To be fair, I wasn't an avid user. I had 2 or 3 important communities there that I was active in on and off for a long time. It wasn't a big sacrifice.. reddit feels bigger.

Frank and Beeeeeeans!

Putting things on bread is as old as bread..

Probably. But every server I was investrd in migrated, so why not ditch that horrible murican company alltogethet..

It's really not. If you assume they are corrupt and at least slightly fascist, you got it covered.

As long as it's regulated, that could be a very good thing.

I work at a huge dairy plant. We run our own wastewater treatment plant. We also sell some of the waste heat from pasteurizing to a nearby greenhouse.

We have a duty to report telemetry from our waste, so the government knows when we fuck up and have a leak or something like that. Works like a charm.

I gotta be honest.. Whenever I buy bananas I hope no one touches them so they can become over ripe and I can make banana bread.

Sooooo delicious.

I think it is just GDPR. I uninstalled the shit immediately when I saw the prompt. Just like my reddit account.

No, but an analytics tool already know you are the same user. As soon as a tool identifies you it can data mine your account and append it to your profile. The instance owner isn't the threat. Your open profile is.

The internet profile cat has been let out, though, so stopping it is near impossible.

Email address, device, wifi. If you log onto anything on a device enough it is tied to your profile. They just append everything on all your accounts to one internet profile.

The internet knows who you are and where you are. It's not hard to tie you to any account you log on. This can be circumvented, but it is a major hassle and not user friendly.

I can name 10 shows matching those criteria...

Because WE want to run free.