There’s a reason that your instance (and others) has defederated from hexbear.

i don’t think hexbear is a good sample group for the average lemmy user nor representative of lemmy users a whole. you might do better sampling lemmy.world, or assembling a meta poll from the top 5 or top 10 instances.

WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!*

^{*no we don’t. not even a little.}

if you’re wondering who this charity is supporting like I was, they, apparently, haven’t decided yet. but here’s their short list of nominees:

• Privacy International
• EPIC
• Human Rights Foundation
• Access Now
• Fight for the Future
• Tor Project
• Women Who Code
• Ranking Digital Rights
• Qubes OS
• GrapheneOS

source

Good news everyone!

That is a change