This is important because no matter what you do, there is always so much more you could be doing. I’d argue that for most people, having those connections is also important for fulfilling whatever reasons you have for pursuing privacy (safety, financial security, political reasons).

It’s also possible to use a service while severely cutting down how much information they can gather:

• use a relay email address
• use the web browser instead of the app
• set up recommended settings on your browser

Another point is that there is a benefit from blending into a crowd. You don’t want to stick out as the one user that’s doing much more than necessary

“Deaths in aid incidents” is weird phrasing

I think that’s reasonable

I have run into users not being aware of which community a post is in a few times. Two recent examples

• We were discussing whether we should remove a post from !canada@lemmy.ca and if it was relevant to Canada. Two users may have misunderstood it as trying to defend trump
• I posted a study comparing the efficacy of a particular vaccine regiment in !medicine@mander.xyz, which is intended for medical professionals, and someone thought I was posting antivax disinfo. Studies on vaccine efficacy are common, and that’s how we decide on schedules and develop better ones

I get it, times are stressful. I left polite comments pointing out the community, and in both cases it would have been smoother if the person checked what the community is about before making assumptions.

I had to look this one up, I didn’t realize how old the technology was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_rotor

A Flettner rotor is a smooth cylinder with disc end plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of airflow.[1] The rotor sail is named after the German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Flettner, who started developing the rotor sail in the 1920s.

The Buckau, the Flettner Rotor Ship, photographed in 1924

Couldn’t you also switch your feed to “subscribed”

Topic based tags could work, but there’s no way to enforce that community’s will tag things about themselves