So would an oppressive government be able to simply set up their own instance and identify the IPs of lurker dissidents based on what they up/downvote?

Post and repeatedly endorse generally inoffensive content that for some reason violates Facebook’s ToS, such as the comic book cover of Captain America punching Hitler or the Led Zeppelin album “Houses of the Holy”

Omg me

That’s how you end up with this

I don’t see the buttons for that

Edit: nvm, I found one way to block users but it’s very finicky

Comments like that is why your instance has a reputation of being bad actor rightwingers

I think it’s piefed. Doesn’t work in Blorp (the only app I’ve found which can run it) and I don’t see buttons in browser for blocking.

You can speak in goo-goo ga-ga talk but I’ll interpret that active choice of lingo as coming from the mind of an infant

Colostomy bag

Sounds like something a caveman would say