Matthew Dow Smith, whomever the fuck that is, has a sophisticated delusion about what's actually going on and he's incorporated it into his persecution complex. Not impressed.
Well this "engagement" ends with nothing.
But don't worry friend, Biden has nothing to worry about with excellent advocates like you. You clearly have it all figured out.
I don't think it can be considered malware unless its doing something malicious that you don't expect. I don't want or need it on my system, but people who want to play these multiplayer games have a valid use-case and can make that decision themselves.
Of course, you may have just intended to snarky and I'm just being tedious.
By default, lemmy will federate openly with any other instance. You can then block specific instances. (Disallow-list)
You can additionally disable federation altogether, or only federate with a specified list. (Allow-list).
It's a week later, but I did get this done finally. I've set up https://lem.monster/ . Still doing some tweaking, but it's open.
That hasn't been the case for a while now. It also never truly mattered, the code is available for you to modify.
I'm going to set up a general purpose instance tomorrow with the intention of handling a relatively large number of users. The main problem is choosing a domain!
Man, I've been a programmer for over a decade now and my eyes still glaze over when I read regex.
Those options don't seem to be present on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.