Right now there are so many easily accessible ways for governments to spy on people (cell phone geolocation, call metadata monitoring)

We don’t have to get rid of the other one, just because we gladly abolished the first already.
Also, I am still free to leave my cell phone at home, or anywhere else, while I am cheating on my wife.

What do you expect from the moderation team?

Not much, be chill and intervene where necessary.

What do you expect from !openstreetmap?

A middle ground between the community forum and twitter, I guess. Leave binding discussions, to the wiki and mailing lists (though if we want to share arguments here, nothings speaks against it). Any niche that allows for occasional deep talk next to showcases.

What should this place look like in about one year time?

A fair share of projects, while hopefully not the only type of content (maybe showoff threads become a necessity there)
Similarly I think projects with the data, such as renderings should have a place here, within reason. Both would probably profit from a flair system, but thats more a task for lemmy-dev than osm-lemmy-mods.
Questions and a culture that answers them in a respectful manner.
Discussion of OSM related news, such as WeeklyOSM.

Do you have any questions for us?

Long time redditor, first time lemmyng: coming from feddit, is it unusual that my abonnement is still shown as pending? Posts do appear in my feddit-feed.