I am not 100% sure of the answer (I am sure there are websites where this is explained), but I am reasonably sure it has to do with the fact that V and U used to not be distinct letters, but variations of the same letter.
I find both of those names silly, I like the fact that my first language (German) doesn’t call any letter “double” anything.
did you really cross-post this and not even fix the typo in the title
That isn’t shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
How were you “not able to post anything”? If you noticed you weren’t able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell
wot
the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here
Texts will have been written about them, e.g. wiki articles or fediverse posts will probably survive, but playable is another story.
A lot of FOSS projects have succeeded in approximately this way. I think it can only be a matter of time until this happens even in this area.
I don’t know anything about NixOS, but this kind of thing can’t be unfamiliar to anyone who has been paying attention over the last ~10 years.
Eric S. Raymond was right: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
ok, if you just want to spread incoherent conspiracy theories instead of legitimately asking questions, I am reporting this thread
so what would you believe? maybe a .gov website?
ActivityPub, as the name implies, is just a protocol for publishing one’s activities. Those activities can be blog posts too (just like they can be Lemmy comments, which is what I’m doing now).
Lemmy only allows subscribing to communities, not arbitrary accounts, but on Mastodon, people can subscribe to anything.
Lemmy doesn’t have any code in it whose only purpose is to maximize profit (e.g. code for showing ads) but isn’t necessary for functionality. Also, the decentralized nature means that any given instance has to serve only a subset of users, not all of them like reddit does.
I think you’re missing that the US federal government already owns a lot of land, so they don’t really need to seize any land if they want to do that.
Red is associated with social democracy, socialism, communism in most countries; almost only in the US is it the color of the conservative party.
I would only consider donating in the first place if it were not only free to access, but also licensed under a free license. I have donated to freely licensed projects before, but not to merely freely accessible websites.
So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix
yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already
I am not American, but Austrian. I earn way more money than I spend each month, causing my bank balance to rise over time; I am not going to say exactly how much I have, but €1000 (which is about the same as $1000) is no problem for me to afford when I need it.
While it’s better than the alternative, it still doesn’t make me very happy because this only helps fulfill the bottom two levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I wish I could easily earn less money, but have more free time to travel and pursue hobbies, but the system of wage labor is not flexible enough to cover the needs of someone like me.