The biggest worry is that Chrome brings about change of websites which then requires other browsers to take on their trusted platform stuff in order to work.

because we were already receiving takedown requests

How are you dealing with these now?

have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves

Is this just in relation to the attacks or also the content, can you share anything?

Torrent sites exist solely to serve up torrents. Lemmy is just an aggregate of many, many sites, it can’t possibly vet every single one, and if it tries then we are on the path to censorship.

Same “loophole” Google uses? Net neutrality etc. All internet traffic is equivalent?

How is it understandable? These are not Lemmy.world communities so there was little reason to remove them.

First they came for the communists.

I’m not sure about the legal implications here. None of those communities are on Lemmy.world, google isn’t liable for websites that exist so a lemmy instance shouldn’t be liable for a community just because it exists.

Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent

I think at this early stage it would not be considered spam to post links, but part of building a community.