“If you were in violation of lemmy’s terms of use, yeah…” wait, is there a central lemmy that can nuke other instances? I thought the whole point of fediverse was if you don’t like an instance you just defederate from it and that there was no central power.

Yeah, we used to own software we bought and could do whatever we wanted on it on our private storages. Imagine tomorrow Microsoft erasing your privately stored documents because it contained stuff against their policies… very risky when you get governments banning abortion, trans rights, and even labeling antifascism as terrorism.