Cross community censorship: For example on Reddit you wrote a comment in subreddit A (maybe even a negative one for that topic!) and then subreddits B, C and D permanently ban your account. If someone starts with that crap again they should be shunned.
Oh and verified users only communities, that sucked too.
That's really not the point. If the instance you post on is defederated from Threads and you create a valuable post (for example a lengthy review of some hardware) then Meta can't just copy your post and put it on their platform. It would be stealing/a copyright violation.
If Meta gets your content then they can (ab)use it. Put ads on it, charge to see it, mask it as their own content, whatever. So wanting to defederate from Meta is absolutely valid and if Meta steals your post you could force them to take it down.
Meta just reading the content to train AI.. not much you can do there. But putting your post up on their platform to serve to their users is a wholly different beast. Even when federated they would have to show your username@yourinstance.com and can't just say they created it.
But that has always been a thing. Just like Reddit mods banning you from their subreddit just because you posted in another subreddit they didn't like. It sucks, but it's nothing new.
If either a server admin or a community mod doesn't like you for what you're doing, they can kick you out. It's the same as if this was an old time forum and you pissed off the admin.
With lemmy you have to watch two things:
Trust the instance admin you sign up with, this is where your account data lives, the admin can read everything on your account. Hell, even your password if they manipulated the instance code, so use a random one
Trust the moderators of the communities you interact with. If you interact with a community and the mods there don't like you, they can just remove your posts for example. Same as with Reddit
A random person outside of your instance or communities you interact with can't do much. They can "steal" your posts and comment data and see your votes. But that's it. They can't block your account or kick you out of your favorite communities. They could obviously harass you (just your account, not your email), but then you can block them. Or ask the admin to block their entire instance.
They might dip their toes in at first. But then you'll have 9 out of 10 big communities/users on Threads (or probably 99 out of 100 if we're realistic). And at that point if Meta defederates nobody of those users will care. Threads will become Twitter 2.0 and be its own thing, while Mastodon will be crushed with a tiny user base in comparison (which will get even smaller because most content is on Meta servers, so users switch over to Threads).
Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it's not a blank slate.
After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0.
So try having at least 3 different passwords for personal accounts/websites
That's an awful take. Grab a password manager and have a random password for every single account of yours. That way all you have to do is remember a single strong password and that's it. Instead of playing Russian roulette when one service you use gets hacked and someone gets a hold of your username / email and one of your 3 different passwords..
When it happens again open the task manager (might take a while), go to performance and look at your SSD. Is it at 100% disk usage?
I had this problem a few times before and it's annoying as hell. One time it was a Windows Store hiccup where it started to update in the background. One time Windows update. One time Nvidia Broadcast got stuck installing. And a lot of times I tried to play Apex Legends and EAC (Easy AntiCheat) scanned my entire drive for a few minutes..
I've tried a ton of tweaks, but start with the following (use CMD as Admin):
sfc /scannow → Scans for errors, will probably find some and fix them. Run again till no errors come up
chkdsk /f /r C: → Full SSD scan for broken sectors. Will probably ask you to restart, the scan happens after restarting. This fixed a ton of issues with my Windows 11 installation, even though the SSD tests and SMART showed no issues
The moment you make votes anonymous (which would theoretically be possible) you open up a million ways in which votes can be manipulated. So congratulations, that ad post from some random company has 12k upvotes now.
Only alternative is still connecting it to a user, but only registering that they voted (but not if it's an upvote or downvote, that's anonymous again), but then you can never change your vote again afterwards. So if you misclick the downvote button there is no way back.
With the current solutions in place, if you want to remain anonymous: Don't create an account, just lurk. Or don't upvote/downvote/comment on things. It's as easy as that.
Just like putting your real name online and then complaining when others can see it on Facebook.. your account is as anonymous as you want to make it.
Bluetooth doesn't make much sense, as you usually only have one device active. But you can easily rule this out: If you have Android for example, long press the Bluetooth button, then check paired devices. Is there any device you don't recognize? Remove it. Done.
Bluetooth is usually encrypted, so if you didn't accidentally pair your device with your neighbor's there is no way they can listen in.
And even more important: Check for carbon monoxide in your home. You might be having health issues and are hallucinating or making things up.
Besides that: It might be possible your neighbor hears you talking on the phone (through the walls for example or with a bug in your home), but there is absolutely no way they'd hear the other side of the conversation. So either your side alone would already give them all the information or something else is up (see above).
There's no way this ends well. I can tell you exactly what would happen:
Meta creates a new fediverse app with their branding. Facebook users (and the general public) will start to see this as the fediverse. Like the official app/server/whatever. If it takes off millions of users will join on Meta instances and only hang out there (with some slight content influx at the start from other instances).
The moment they have enough content on Meta servers they'll defederate from everyone. The Meta users probably won't even notice, they are on massive Meta instances and 90%+ of the content is there.
Gratulations, you got Facebook 2.0, the rest of the fediverse dies.
No, I'm clumsy as shit, I nearly broke a toe once running against a door frame.
With my older phones I always used cases, so even if I did drop it (which happened rarely) nothing happened. With the S22.. I'm going without a case, so far only tiny drops (like out of my jeans when sitting down on the toilet). Knock on wood, it survived so far.
Next phone gets a case again, damn screen scratches :)
I haven't broken a single phone in the last 20 years :) Not even a screen crack.
My old phones all still work, including a Galaxy S, OnePlus One, OnePlus 5 and now my Galaxy S22. I have even older phones, but I can't remember their names.
Damn Galaxy S22 scratches like hell though, making the glass softer was a mistake.
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Use one of the scripts that overwrites your comments first. Just deleting doesn't help one bit.
They also rate limit you to one action every 1.5 seconds or something.