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> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways. I just can’t im
by malicka 3y ago
> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways.
I just can’t imagine how, honestly! It’s not exactly trivial to programmatically hinder certain messages in a way that others won’t notice and complain about — as they did when Lemmy had hard-coded blacklists for slurs.
If anything, they'd abuse their control of the Lemmy.ml server, like you said.
- bioemerl 3y agoAll you have to do is do something like sneak in telemetry, add some sort of back door, who knows. There are near infinite opportunities for a bad actor to sneak bad code in, so when you're dealing with a bad actor you just don't trust anything they do. Running code from people who are tied to an authoritarian government is not something you should be doing ever.