They're not keeping the money:
"He said the bank informed Jones’ company that it would be sending a cashier’s check for the total balance."

It just says mod/admin on lemmy.ml , on kbin you can see the mod-username.

Ik hoop toch dat we een statisch relevant deel van de stemmen handmatig controleren. Een computersysteem dat 1 keer per 4 jaar gebruikt wordt is nooit te vertrouwen

Most adults vape fruit flavors too.
Disposables have to go, banning flavors is just pushing ex-smokers to smoking again.

It's impossible to replicate tobacco flavor with artificial food flavorings, "tobacco" flavored ecigs taste horrible.

How would the first ammendment apply to a Polish website?

That would be a good argument for a filter instead.

It's possible, but there is no reason at all to have the kbin magazines separate from the communities.
They all federate the same, so why not list them all the same.

So after getting a an AI analysis of all your comments, them selling your data. You only worry about upvotes?
That's a small difference. This example takes a small difference and blows it up to the extreme.

Useless fearmongering if focussed on Lemmy only.

This could be done to any twitter, mastodon or reddit user

You're in a kbin magazine, kbin is alfa at best :). But things are changing fast because of the rapid increase in users.

our priorities are not "fediverse first" or "ActivityPub first", they're Beehaw first.

Ok, that's where I'm in another camp, and that's ok, we can disagree on goals.

I'm not shure, there are a few good arguments against plain blocking of Meta.

This article is mostly against federating
https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

it does highlight contra's:

John Gruber describes the Anti-Meta Pact as "petty and deliberately insular" and suggests that the whole point of ActivityPub is to turn social networking into something more akin to email, which he describes as "truly open."1

Tristan Louis says "The anti-Meta #Fedipact can only achieve one thing: make sure that #ActivityPub loses to the Bluesky protocol."2

Dan Gillmor suggests that "preemptively blocking them -- and the people already using them -- from your instance guarantees less relevance for the fediverse."