Maybe it's worth having that security hole then. I think it's a bit crazy that terrorists or child abusers can plan their crimes using WhatsApp without the police being able to intercept their messages.

Also, if we're able to contact our banks over the internet securely (and obviously the bank can still see everything about our accounts if they want, while criminals hopefully won't be able to), then surely an equivalent should be possible for things like WhatsApp.

I think law enforcement should be able to intercept messages on services like WhatsApp, if someone is suspected of criminal activity.

Is it right for criminals to be able to share child abuse material, or plans for terrorism, over something like WhatsApp? Without law enforcement being able to intercept these messages?

I think law enforcement can break into your home if they have a court warrant, right? So why not allow the same thing with electronic communications?

I wonder if Britain will rejoin the EU. Perhaps it would happen. But I guess it will take a few years before politicians are willing to consider that.

No user of Reddit is powerless. Every single user of Reddit has the power to fuck with Reddit in whatever legal way the want, and they also they have the power to quit using Reddit.

He'll be remembered for breaking rules yes, but he won't be remembered "as an innovator".

It's meant to be a decentralised version of Twitter. I think it was originally made by Twitter but is now a separate company.

But I don't think it uses the ActivityPub protocol that Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon use, so it won't be interoperable with them. Also, it's invite-only for the moment. So if you want a decentralised Twitter-like experience right now, you could use Mastodon.

Reddit's response to everything over the last week or however long it has been:

"Fuck you, we don't care about you, we want to line our pockets, we literally think of users as dirt, we expect you to bow down and kiss our shoes"

The chart here shows 37,000 active users for Lemmy, and this chart here shows 45,000 active users for Kbin.

And if the recent trend continues then those numbers should grow.

I just looked at Lemmygrad.ml. The rules on that site say "be respectful".

Your attached picture shows you are not respectful at all. You are supporting Putin, a dictator, who rigs elections, and who orders assassinations of political opponents (Navalny) and former Russian intelligence agents (Skripal, Litvinenko).

And of course Putin has in no way been respectful towards Ukraine. Invading Crimea in 2014, and the larger invasion in 2022.

So, you are being disrespectful towards Ukraine, and therefore you're not embodying the stated rules and values of your Lemmygrad server.