The system which can and has been abused, you mean.Unless they verify. Which they shouldn’t be able to do.

“small email service” lost me there. Second, one of proton’s promises used to be they couldn’t read your email. Obviously, they do have that ability and whether they do it selectively or not: they shouldn’t be doing it at all.

I stopped trusting them a while back after a user proved his account was deleted “because he used his email to violate another site’s terms of service”. Dudes you provide email, you are not monitoring everyone’s messages for the purpose of enforcing random third party ToS.

What exactly happens with people who torrent?

This has the same ring as “don’t talk about drugs or sex, and especially don’t educate kids about them, it’ll give people ideas”. No, people will get ideas regardless. What this firm did is try to educate people about a problem.

I think because people are the same no matter what platform they’re using and you’ll end up with the same kinds of arguments, trolling, or derailing everywhere. But they already have platforms they’re on for those, so why switch?

Lemmy would have to be pretty different and because humans are the same everywhere, I’m not really seeing that difference.

I see it somewhat when browsing contents in other languages because the culture is different enough to lend itself to different contents, or at least different arguments that are less tiresome than what I see on English platforms…