Not a doctor. She’s a fucking osteopath, ie a masseuse with delusions of grandeur

As the other person said. The main purpose of it is if you’re sharing the computer with someone else. You don’t need to worry about your kink searches showing up in the search history.

Looks like a Linksys Router to me

Use the clay pigeon shooter to toss it for target practice

No, there was a lot of pushback against new users coming in and "acting like it's Twitter". General interest instances grew, people, for the most part, operated within the rules of the instances they were on, and a bunch of the old guard got on peoples cases over things like content warnings, language policing, and threats to defederate their small, niche instance that no one was going to miss from big and growing servers (which, when you have absolutely no idea about the lay of the land, sounds really threatening and consequential).

People who were used to having almost the whole yard as their own tailored safe space did what they could to try and make the new folks get in line and adhere to the social conventions they were accustomed to, attempting to hold sway over behaviour on servers they didn't really want around anyway. It made the space hostile for new folks coming in.

And it was meant to.