Time to get serious about running my own instance. I now have to wonder what kind of political opinion I might voice which could make the instance operators liable. This is not tolerable long-term.

Evidence for your claims, please.

Too late for that. Technology has been redefined to mean whatever Si valley IT tech bros are up to.

I recommend to unsub and build topical communities.

That has already happened in the last years.

Lemmy now has enough early adopters to be sustainable. And that's the only thing that matters. As to Reddit, my account there is 17+ years old but I was there since the beginning. The early years were amazing but in the last half decade or so it was a visibly dying platform. We should be thankful that its current leadership has now put it out of its misery.

I removed myself as a moderator and left Reddit.

Such people probably have WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok already. A liitle extra cancer doesn't matter to them.

Level fines and collect them.

If you're not going to immediately defederate from Meta instances the Fediverse baby will be strangled in the crib.

EU's GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit's documented inability to delete EU Reddit users' personal data.

Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.

All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.

Luckily GDPR deletion requests don't care about how they are implemented. And failures to comply en masse tends to get really expensive.