FlagonOfMe

You don't. Go to a different instance and sign up. Then stopping using this account.

You got your wish, and it's terrible!

Nope, they were mostly local users.

I've been trying it, and I can't find a way to visit an individual community from my list of subscriptions.

Turns out it's this button:

Update: it's all working now.

I don't see any of my subscriptions at all. Whether they are local or remote, and if I tap on one which I favorited in Connect for Lemmy, I get an error.

You can't prove any of your assertions. It's all supposition. Meanwhile, history has many examples of corporations doing exactly what people are fearing. Like what Google did to XMPP, and Microsoft did to Kerberos. It's wise to be wary.

There's even a Wikipedia article on the tactic Microsoft uses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

You're taking a realistic possibility and poo-pooing it when you don't know anything about the history of corporations destroying open source standards.

I wonder if that's why I woke up to 8 inbox replies from up to 3 days ago. 😄

Defederate unequivocally.

I'm kinda with you there. When people use a word like decimate in that sense, they are using it wrong. But if enough people use a word "wrong", then they are actually using it right. All that matters is that (some) people agree on that meaning. Even a word like irregardless is in the dictionary, but at least lexicographers have the decency to mark it as "nonstandard".

The point of dictionaries is to document word usage. All words, at their core, are just made-up mouth sounds which people associate with a thought. Who decides what sound should be associated with what thoughts? People. There's really no rhyme or reason to it. Where did decimare come from? Some other word? And where did that word come from? It's all arbitrary.

Speaking of not fast... I just got 8 comment replies in my inbox that were made up to 3 days ago.

It's a disguise!

We need to make sure no instance ever federates with any from the likes of Facebook, Reddit, or Google. And if they do, defederate with those instances.