The story you link literally says:

“the varying ways to count and then interpret police data means it’s worth taking all claims about crime rates rising or falling with a pinch of salt”

They go to great pains to point out that the data is not recorded consistently, so drawing any conclusions from it is fraught.

Hmm. In the old days, pretty much every ISP ran a Usenet server. The cost was covered as part of your internet connection bill, it was just part of the service.

I could see a potential future where running a Lemmy instance became table-stakes for ISPs, like Usenet used to be.