that would explain the google fine in russia

it doesn’t seem to be server specific because once prompted there is no way to use the account again, even if you decided to just not use a server that may have these settings set.

no, you’re also effectively locked out of any participation unless you provide an email address and phone number, which they won’t even tell you about in advance but use dark patterns and gaslighting that they noticed “suspicious activity” to step by step first ask you for an email and then once that is validated they prompt you for a phone number. the only thing they don’t do yet is ask for ID.

I can sell you a copy of lemmys source code, are you interested?

you can enable end to end encryption, it’s optional. I don’t think it’s enabled by default.

until 0.19.4 is released, clients are supposed to suppress comment contents when the comment is either marked as removed (moderator) or deleted (creator).

they might decide to show contents to site admins or community moderators anyway, but some clients did not implement this properly and show the original content to all users.

this is of course not something that should have been available to everyone in the first place, which is why this is being fixed in 0.19.4.

depending on the client, you should still see some kind of indicator above the comment text that shows it was removed or deleted, in this case removed.

won’t be the case for much longer, the next lemmy release is removing that.

i suggest you remove this quote and summarize it with fewer details if you need to have it there in the first place. you’re effectively advertising for them now and undoing the moderator action of removing this advertisement.