And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of "I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line."

It's not about if it's successful or not, it's about the US having dug in to this and wanting to keep up the tough facade they so desperately want other countries to fear.

You want to defederate from the largest Lemmy instance, the poster child, and the mascot of Lemmy? Good luck. They are Lemmy now.

Don’t care. If I gave a shit about the biggest instance because it has the most users, then I would have stayed on Reddit which has orders of magnitudes more users and to put it in the linked comment's words, they still are link aggregators in the the commenter thinks .world "are" Lemmy. The whole damn point of federation is your instance is not locked into what the biggest instance wants to do.

Can we please block .world already?

Don't be silly, the US doesn't help people, that's un-American commie shit.

Narrator: He won't

This video from a security researcher says that pretty much every software that uses WebP was affected though, and once the issue was discovered, Google made commits in their own codebase to "fix" it. Which suggests it's an issue with the upstream source code that Google provided to everyone else.