No I’m not surprised at all. This is necessary for any kind of auto save and auto complete. Not happy about my shit being stored in China, but “collects every keystroke” isn’t really news anymore.
If you’re worried about this kind of behavior, don’t use any website with auto save or auto complete, period.
I accidentally downvote when I scroll. I’m sorry, everyone. I undo it when I notice.
That’s what they get for torching Westwood
Copium I’m afraid. They’ll always fall in line
Depends on how carefully they follow separation of concerns, I suppose. I’ve seen errors exactly like this before where old data couldn’t be deleted but new data could be deleted without issue.
To be clear, I am not defending them, nor am I entirely writing off the zuckbot doing this on purpose. Just without further evidence, it is easy for me to assume they are incompetent.
Personally I believe them only because meta has proven to be incompetent time and time again. I’m betting they migrated the followers to the new account, but forgot to update some foreign key and now it errors out when the old code tries to unfollow.
The malice though is in doing this new migration scheme instead of the old method of “update the profile picture and bio”.
Good point. My worry is just a federated instance scooping up all of the feed regardless of privacy, but I bet this is a question I can answer by ceasing my laziness and reading their site.
How does privacy work with it? In my mind I’d think it’d be terrible because everything is federated. Not something I care about with lemmy, but pictures are a different story.
It’s a glitch that it rolled out today instead of next week.
That or the dumb fucks in charge of these companies still think it’s the 90’s where everyone thought that machines would suddenly gain sentience.