The admins are asking what the threat is, and the only response so far has been “but they are evil”.

That’s how they pay for Android. Just because you don’t pay a royalty doesn’t mean the software is free. (Even if it is libre)

To cats, all things are a cat bed, prey, or both.

Aside from inflation and limited benefit of upgrading, subscriptions for every little thing are depleting discretionary income.

There shouldn’t be any difference between apps on the same instance. Are you sure you are always using the same login on the same server?

The only other possibility is that the app has the instance hard coded somewhere or accessing remote instances directly, but that seems unlikely - it would cause all kinds of problems because URLs aren’t portable.

My suggestion when troubleshooting would be to compare what is showing up on the login instance and the app. If those are different, then there is an app bug. If there is a difference between the login instance and the host instance, that’s a federation issue. Comparing the app to the host instance (instead of the login instance) isn’t helpful to the app developer. The app shouldn’t know the host instance even exists.

It looks like federation issues. Lemmy.world is under semi-constant DDOS attacks, and between that and the mitigations that LW are putting in place, the entire instance is not reliable.

In general, I think communities (or groups of related communities) should maintain their own instances to protect from some of the issues prominent with user-focused instances.

Along with the rest of crypto, but don’t tell them…

I didn’t say that. Security and privacy are nearly opposites. This is a security decision.

Because these three provide federated login most email providers do not.

They are probably talking about using it to share CSAM or other illegal content. They need one person to login to be not anonymous so they can give it to the authorities if necessary.