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More time will definitely be needed. I'm glad they caught it and acted quickly enough to prevent more vandalism from occurring, but until we know how the account was compromised and what else they may have gotten in the process, it's still a situation to keep an eye on.

Obligatory IANAL, but...

Generally a search warrant needs to be issued by a local authority, and that requires the crime to be prosecutable in the place where it was issued.

So in theory, California is potentially able to refuse requests to search for things that are not illegal in California but may be illegal somewhere else.

That being said, it looks like there are specific practices in place making it easier to issue warrants for electronic data like this scenario, even across state lines.

And in this particular circumstance, the alleged offense is even illegal in California (abortion of a viable fetus), so it's a bit of a moot point anyways. A Californian judge would have issued this warrant if a local police department requested one.

It looks like they're in the process. The compromised account was demoted from admin and I see posts are being removed. There will definitely need to be some sort of investigation into how this happened, though.

One of the admin accounts appears to have been compromised. The owner/other admins appear to be aware now because that account had its admin access revoked and offending posts are being removed.

Definitely opens up a big question about the security of Lemmy instances that I am sure will be discussed over the next few days.

NSFW subreddits are a black hole in terms of advertising potential. No mainstream company wants their products on display next to porn.

A big subreddit like /r/pics going NSFW, with its absolutely massive userbase, takes out a large chunk of Reddit's potential advertising appeal.

Facebook/Instagram (Meta) is one I am not sure how to get a read on. They are branching out a lot, but I have no idea what they're doing to remain profitable. It seems like they're in "Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" mode, hoping that they find a new niche before their sizable warchest from the 2010's runs dry.

They severely downsized once this year already and I have a feeling that won't be the end of the story. Wouldn't surprise me if they sell off/shut down Oculus in the near future.

Tiktok, meanwhile...well it's already undergoing enshittification (it is the subject of that original essay) and old people are starting to use it, so I feel like it's only a matter of time before it's no longer cool with kids and they lose a sizable chunk of their revenue stream and content.

Ah, the Andrew Jackson strategy.

The pandemic caused serious financial burden to the average American, and the only reason why it wasn't significantly worse for millions of people is because the federal government paused interest and repayment deadlines for federal student loans.

Loan forgiveness is another method of providing relief for people whose economic means took a hit as a result of the pandemic, and is something a lot of people were counting on the day it was announced. If this is unconstitutional, then so were paycheck protection program (PPP) loans that were forgiven by the Fed due to the pandemic as well. The only difference between the two is that the GOP likes big business owners who benefitted from PPP loans (and several GOP politicians and their families took out millions in PPP loans that were forgiven) and they don't give a shit about college students who aren't likely to vote red.

This is just another way the conservatives are "sticking it to the libs", so they have something to brag about during next year's election.

From the user perspective for sure. It's much easier to join lemmy.world and it has a higher population of fledditors. I was just more acknowledging the role of lemmy.ml as something of a model instance because it is run directly by the developers of Lemmy.

I don't even use Mlem and want to help!

It is the "default" one, though, and its admins are behind the Lemmy platform itself. Along with the Jerboa app, too.

A feature similar to RES, maybe one that pulls from your subscriptions, would be nice. Start typing the name of a community and it suggests some autofill options formatted in a way that folks from other instances can click on it easily.