My concern is with the words themselves not who they’re aimed at.

As an aside you should never consider yourself mediocre. Good people are far from mediocre.

Didn’t realize it was the original title.

No it doesn’t compare. It can still be hurtful. These aren’t mutually exclusive.

While I appreciate the anger please consider that “mediocre <ethnicity>” is not a very nice way to phrase this. Also given the recent demographic pole there are many “white” people here who are likely on your side. It particularly hurts when people on your side use language like this.

It looks like it’ll hammer the server with a lot of requests for no real reason other than vanity.

The real fix would be to make a PR to add an endpoint to Lemmy that returns karma.

Probably any instance with common decency/desire to be good people.

On Android you can use UntrackMe. It’s on F-Droid.

Yes, Google messed up and now abdicates all responsibility because of how fixes are pushed downstream to users.