As I understand it, one of the major issues with moving to e.g. Mastodon is that the Fediverse doesn't implement blocking in a way that you'd expect, at all. It's effectively impossible to block someone the way we're used to blocking in places like Twitter, Instagram.

I have also heard a lot of stories from Black folks about anti-Black sentiment on Mastodon.

This has absolutely nothing to do with veganism.

I'm in the US and don't have the ability to opt-out of these things.

I used Sync for Reddit for many years but the Lemmy version's privacy policy is not what I was hoping to see. I would love a clarification around what privacy improvements a subscription might add...

Knowing him, he'll forget to remove the first redirect

I'm definitely trying to lurk less here compared to when I used to use reddit.

Hadn't heard of it so I clicked that link and noticed it collects, among other things, location data with no way to request removal. So that's my answer

A possibly nice UX could be clients grouping all crossposts from the same author together in a little stack, but showing the local or oldest version "on top"

We don't need billions of users here; just a healthy community.

Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell

subreddits as businesses

I'll admit, I didn't have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea