Indeed, a lot of social platforms where it’s about communities instead of individuals start by attracting nerds/programmers then the gamers and then others see a use case.

Because otherwise they’d just be returning sex toys. This way you can hide the thing you actually want to return.

Also slicedlime is in the Fediverse already. Not sure if he has an account on Lemmy, but he can be found on Mastodon: @slicedlime@octodon.social.