Cross community censorship: For example on Reddit you wrote a comment in subreddit A (maybe even a negative one for that topic!) and then subreddits B, C and D permanently ban your account. If someone starts with that crap again they should be shunned.
Oh and verified users only communities, that sucked too.
Upvotes are not anonymous, same for downvotes.
OP should have made a strawpoll or something.
But that has always been a thing. Just like Reddit mods banning you from their subreddit just because you posted in another subreddit they didn't like. It sucks, but it's nothing new.
If either a server admin or a community mod doesn't like you for what you're doing, they can kick you out. It's the same as if this was an old time forum and you pissed off the admin.
With lemmy you have to watch two things:
Trust the instance admin you sign up with, this is where your account data lives, the admin can read everything on your account. Hell, even your password if they manipulated the instance code, so use a random one
Trust the moderators of the communities you interact with. If you interact with a community and the mods there don't like you, they can just remove your posts for example. Same as with Reddit
A random person outside of your instance or communities you interact with can't do much. They can "steal" your posts and comment data and see your votes. But that's it. They can't block your account or kick you out of your favorite communities. They could obviously harass you (just your account, not your email), but then you can block them. Or ask the admin to block their entire instance.
So try having at least 3 different passwords for personal accounts/websites
That's an awful take. Grab a password manager and have a random password for every single account of yours. That way all you have to do is remember a single strong password and that's it. Instead of playing Russian roulette when one service you use gets hacked and someone gets a hold of your username / email and one of your 3 different passwords..
The moment you make votes anonymous (which would theoretically be possible) you open up a million ways in which votes can be manipulated. So congratulations, that ad post from some random company has 12k upvotes now.
Only alternative is still connecting it to a user, but only registering that they voted (but not if it's an upvote or downvote, that's anonymous again), but then you can never change your vote again afterwards. So if you misclick the downvote button there is no way back.
With the current solutions in place, if you want to remain anonymous: Don't create an account, just lurk. Or don't upvote/downvote/comment on things. It's as easy as that.
Just like putting your real name online and then complaining when others can see it on Facebook.. your account is as anonymous as you want to make it.
I mean I didn't upvote or downvote porn on Reddit either. It's all personal information.
On Reddit there were plenty of people with access and the data was sold to advertisers.
Here it's public, not great but not terrible either. Also makes it easier to battle vote brigading?
Just don't vote then? Reddit also told advertisers what you're into, it was just over backchannels with money involved.
Or create an account that has no links to your private live, then you can vote as much as you want.
Bluetooth doesn't make much sense, as you usually only have one device active. But you can easily rule this out: If you have Android for example, long press the Bluetooth button, then check paired devices. Is there any device you don't recognize? Remove it. Done.
Bluetooth is usually encrypted, so if you didn't accidentally pair your device with your neighbor's there is no way they can listen in.
And even more important: Check for carbon monoxide in your home. You might be having health issues and are hallucinating or making things up.
Besides that: It might be possible your neighbor hears you talking on the phone (through the walls for example or with a bug in your home), but there is absolutely no way they'd hear the other side of the conversation. So either your side alone would already give them all the information or something else is up (see above).
There's no way this ends well. I can tell you exactly what would happen:
Meta creates a new fediverse app with their branding. Facebook users (and the general public) will start to see this as the fediverse. Like the official app/server/whatever. If it takes off millions of users will join on Meta instances and only hang out there (with some slight content influx at the start from other instances).
The moment they have enough content on Meta servers they'll defederate from everyone. The Meta users probably won't even notice, they are on massive Meta instances and 90%+ of the content is there.
Gratulations, you got Facebook 2.0, the rest of the fediverse dies.
No, I'm clumsy as shit, I nearly broke a toe once running against a door frame.
With my older phones I always used cases, so even if I did drop it (which happened rarely) nothing happened. With the S22.. I'm going without a case, so far only tiny drops (like out of my jeans when sitting down on the toilet). Knock on wood, it survived so far.
Next phone gets a case again, damn screen scratches :)
I haven't broken a single phone in the last 20 years :) Not even a screen crack.
My old phones all still work, including a Galaxy S, OnePlus One, OnePlus 5 and now my Galaxy S22. I have even older phones, but I can't remember their names.
Damn Galaxy S22 scratches like hell though, making the glass softer was a mistake.
I've never been called either in nearly 12 years on Reddit (and being plenty active with ~120k comment karma).
Maybe if you often get called that you should re-evaluate your opinions?