No offense, but if your fediverse account is in any way tied to your identity or other usernames, you already fucked up, privacy-wise. I wanted an account on another instance for the times where mine goes down so I started an application to lem.ee but abandoned it when it required an email address...

In my pass job I was a business intelligence analysist in an insurance company, and my boss came to me and told me to take my computer and go to some conference room. There was one of the managers of legal affairs and she ask me to do look up something on the database, pretty regular job that is usually a ticket but ok, so I did her queries when suddenly they went a direction they don't normally go and asked me to join the table with the employees database and do a pivot table for employee and count of lines and there was this lady with like 95% of the count, the manager asked me to send her that table and told me that she already knew it was her, but needed the evidence to HR. One week later the lady was fired and I still feel uncomfortable about that. Later I read some essay about abstraction, and how upper you go on the corporate chain, people gradually stop being humans to be just numbers, but for me, that day, my work had a name and a direct consequence that I can't abstract from.

It’s the future of Snow Crash

There is a picture - it’s an Instagram embed

They addressed it in the comments on the article - basically they are worried about being sued by Meta if they make copies of the post. Walled gardens are like that so I can see why they are cautious - however I’d prefer they at least included a separate link so you could KNOW it was linking out to Instagram.

LMAO the comments are getting adblocked as well for me. Probably cause they outsourced their comment section to some sketchy 3rd party too.