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virtually no exposure at all

That is not correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

You're linking to a halfhearted attempt at an exposé written by someone who acts unreasonable towards any attempts at clarification.

I can understand the decision somewhat.

Putting "The Lord of the Rings" first in the title would imply that this furthers the main canon, when it's actually only set in its universe.

They could have indeed chosen a better subtitle though, like "from The Lord of the Rings".

Lemmy users will cancel this for not being hardwired to defederate with Threads :^)

But the entire point of E2EE is that you don't need to trust them.

There's a point to be made for web apps, but with their client apps, the source code that encrypts your data is right there.

and now that a new owner is taking them all

But they're E2E encrypted? I don't understand the issue here.

Well, in that case you should never publish your code anywhere.

That's obviously not what OP was referring to when mentioning "Firefox themes".

I didn't see your initial proposal. However I sympathise with this post and I really understand the frustration you're feeling with the lack of donations, having seen it time and time again in the open-source space.

I was going to pledge that I'd donate once I had the cash available, but seeing how you respond to people in the comments is leading me to reconsider. You may not be demanding donations, but to me it does look like you're attempting to shame people into donating with a challenging tone. Quoting one of your responses:

Anyway, now you know it as well. If you think that this is a worthy effort, what are you going to do about it besides commenting here?

I still want to support you if you're going to pursue this, since I myself have a strong interest in Lemmy being GDPR-compliant, but I ask you that you please reconsider how you approach the people that can potentially be supporters of your efforts.

I'm guessing it's mainly placebo.

Can we please not editorialize news titles?

The amount of hue shift in that phone display in the photo is hilarious.