As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of "melting snowflakes" the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to "trigger" people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. 
Programming.dev chuds in the Lemmy federation want to "melt snowflakes" a lot more than they actually care about privacy and they're fine with walled gardens on the internet if they think they will have the keys to them.