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I personally am fine with this.

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[–] vinniep@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Too many people were making poor choices. When there's an incident of an account that should have been secured but wasn't getting compromised, that's bad for the platform, ecosystem, and community. This is just another level beyond not allowing you to set a password of "password"