$5778 adjusted for inflation.

The community is “malicious compliance”. It would only be a perfect fit for here if it were actually malicious compliance and not just a funny coincidence.

If you believe that there was any conversation like this at all, and it isn’t just some production line that places coupons at the same place on every box.

How fuckin childish.

Are you paying anything for this service? No. It has costs to maintain while they’re shouldering that on their own and giving you this service for free.

Get over yourself. The entire point of the fediverse is that anyone can host an instance. You can spin up a little free instance yourself and federate or defederate/block anything you see fit.

Why don’t you? I’m gonna guess because you want a low effort, free service to get your scrolling fix. In which case, they’re right. Go to a different instance that suits your values more. If you want an instance that won’t defederate or block others unless absolutely necessary, go join Lemm.ee. They federate with basically everyone and don’t block hardly anything.

And, Lemmy world is federated with them. So you won’t lose a single thing here if you move there.