Signal still have access to your contact list at first, they simply not store it anywhere. Which is good for me

I understand, but if you are new to this conversation app, right after installing it would be good to know which of your contacts your are able to talk to there. I don't see asking one by one and adding them manually a good solution, maybe there is another one I don't see

Yep, decisions like not allowing movie distribution companies to own any cinema would not happen these days

They don't even need to go through a middle third party instance, they just have to have a ghost instance that nobody know it belongs to them and this one will federate with everybody else

For example if you go to FMHY federated instances, there is one called evil.social , that could be from Meta or Google or NSA... nobody knows

You don't have to be American, if twitter works in your country, then it should at least on your country follow your rules or they could be blocked by your ISP

Not american here, I was watching a video on youtube and the guy said the main purpose of HOAs is to try to increase the neighborhood property value, for me this is completely crazy, shouldn't it be about making the community better for people to live?

I like it, those tiny car should be encouraged

They will collect or probably are already collecting. Even if everyone defederate from Threads, they can and will open a secret instance and get all the data without anyone knowing it

We have interoperability for emails but most people use gmail/microsoft , so you could be tracked even if you use protonmail

OK so let's tell the regular user "hey come to lemmy, but don't forget to keep multiple accounts because here everyone can spy on you"

That's not a good message

Really hope someone fix this at some point, because it is a pain in the ass a so simple thing as just hypertexting another instance

I also think lemmygrad should not be defederated