Your reading comprehension is really bad.

If you're criticizing people for not doing something you're ostensibly unwilling to do, that's the preposterous argument.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Otherwise fuck off criticizing people who don't want to die.

That's with a royal 'you' since I know you're not the person they responded to.

The problem is finding enough people who don't mind probably getting killed. That's generally why revolutions don't happen until the people are starving and have nothing left to lose.

America likely still has a while to go before that point.

Do you really think you can't export data from your own instance?

And why are you making the assumption that an instance is being seized by law enforcement? They almost certainly have their own instances just for data collection.

I just want to throw out the fact that many states have people whose job is to help people navigate the social programs that might benefit them. Usually it's with the department of health and human services (or whatever it's called in your state)

If your state doesn't have these people, find someone who does state sponsored addiction counseling. They often have direct contacts for people in those programs because their clients typically need more than just addiction help.

Source: My wife got her master's in HHS and did addiction counseling until the fact that it was all about numbers pushed through instead of helping people drove her out.

Netflix doesn't really control the content that other creators allow on their service, so point 3 is moot

My Pixel 9 on stock android has the same issue. My hands are just too sweaty.

Plus, with a large group of people, the chance of a leak is much higher.

If you have your own instance you have access to user comment and post history (even if deleted), voting history, IP address, and more for every other instance you're federated with.

Lemmy is by no means privacy focused.

It's not too late to do anything, but it's too late to do it through political channels.

Considering we've been around for about 300,000 years, it's within the realm of possibility.

To give a reference, it's estimated that there were about 2 million humans roughly 50k years ago.

Although that's a really rough estimate since the start of the 'how many humans have ever lived' begins around that time.