It's probably against their TOS, so they could ban the account. It's not illegal. I would say it's pretty gray morally, since it would probably be bought by an entity that will pretend to be a real person to sell product or spread misinformation.
I hope I'm allowed here as an ADHD man. But I think it's so cute that cats don't meow to other cats, they only meow to communicate with humans.
A little late to the party. I was on board with defederating until I read this comment on another instance's meta community and it completely changed my mind.
https://programming.dev/comment/690107
tl;dr: Defederating doesn't benefit us at all and just makes more users move to Threads, or at least an instance that hasn't defederated.
I worked for several years in IT fields from help desk to sysadmin. I'm now a Sr. Software Engineer.
I somewhat disagree. With containerization like Docker our system is pretty simple. However, there are lot more bootcamp developers that learned to code in 12 weeks which are going to know a lot less than those with a Bachelors or higher in the field.
I could've sworn the Council of Elrond took months, I just looked it up and it was only a day. Maybe I got it confused because it took me months to read the chapter.
I'm on wefwef and I get a few posts. It's likely the instance you are on hasn't federated with that one yet.
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