It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.
Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…
while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…
Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.
Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.
I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.
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I think that “alleged” can be dropped, if the emergency-services people had to deal with evidence that was sufficiently-obvious.
Don’t push deluded-doubt to help the disinformation empire, please.
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