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It's definitely not for everyone. For me it's

• some use signal with me / others exclusively, sending the occasional message elsewhere when on a certain device or sharing within a platform
• some use signal for sensitive conversations, and use other platforms most of the time
• some just don't. If I need to have a sensitive conversation with them, I do it in person

You could try and run both

Keep whatsapp, and slowly switch contacts to Signal (it might just be close friends and family). That's what people around me are doing

There was a post earlier today with an explainer on who is doing it: https://lemmy.ca/post/15935073

I'm not sure why this particular instance was chosen, but from what I can tell the spammers are doing it for the memes anyways.

The best you can do for now is to keep reporting them. What you can also do is see if there's a pattern, such as one instance popping up more often than others. Chances are that instance has open signups or something, and lemmy.world (and everyone else) should defederate

Oh I didn't know there were tiers, whereabouts is that?

I don't quite understand, is this just the backup file or the file being used? I'd be worried about conflicts if some transfer doesn't work perfectly, since then it might all break

I like sea otters. I've spotted them in the water once or twice

I still saved a lot of links to the various tools and some topic based instances. Sometimes things don't show up where you expect them to, and googling for info doesn't work

I'm not sure if I quite understand the question, but would introspection be an answer? Otherwise maybe some close friends and family

I don't really have a specific person that I go to, and it doesn't happen that often (at least I can't think of an example)

Would it be possible to downrank / soft filter the instances that are more at risk? I'm not sure what that would look like exactly, but it would be nice to find a middle ground between accepting spam and defederating away

That's actually on me, I thought a simple list would have been easier when publishing the results 😄

From what I can remember, most of them were single submissions. I'll report back with any multiple submissions once I check

Also yea the census was a new thing for this year, might try a bigger one next year

I think it's because a lot of other companies did the same thing, Google Drive and Dropbox also had these 'do tasks and get more space' promos

My personal issue with the above is privacy issues (mainly dropbox with the automatic opt-in AI thing), so who knows. Maybe it'll be ok

While these are more Canada specific, we had some responses for this question in our recent census. See question 3.4: https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231

Also feel free to promote your new community on [email protected]. Just subscribed myself :)