Blockchain is now used by the US president to make money in barely legal ways.

That’s not a good outlook.

An instance was defederated.

There’s more than one web UI.

I’ve been on Lemmy for a while and still find the duplicate named communities on different insurances confusing. The number of users only somewhat. There are lots of communities still listed from dead instances like feddit.de.

Unique names for communities would be helpful and also support moving a community to a new instance.

Well the folks over at .ml aren’t from Mali or host their server there.

The ml stands for Marxism-Leninism. They are tankies.

That’s more a feature for a client app.

Exactly. The Fediverse is transparent to all the bad actors and they don’t even have to pay for access.

Privacy isn’t particularly good in the fediverse. Any federated instance can track you as much as they want without you ever knowing or consenting.

Self hosting Lemmy is straightforward. Then subscribe to all communities and now you have a treasure trove of data to mine. If you modify the code a bit you can do more like keep deleted posts around or surveil user activities in real time.

Reddit has a ton of users. Mastodon is marginal.

That word has truly lost all meaning.

Wouldn’t selective disabling of JavaScript make fingerprinting easier? Your block and white list are likely to be unique.

Disabling JavaScript entirely is another data point for fingerprinting. Only a tiny fraction of users do it.

Besides, without JavaScript most websites are not functional anymore. Those that are are likely not tracking you much in the first place.

How do you prove they’re doing it?

How would that even be enforced?

Falcon 9 flew 2010 for the first time. ESA’s Themis hasn’t had its first flight yet more than a decade later. Until this rocket is ready another few years will pass. That means europe is 20 years behind the USA in technology. China is ahead of Europe in space technology now.

Germany isn’t even part of Themis.

That’s the utter shambles of Europe’s independent access to space.

Ariane was once a world leader.

Space gun needs to be in space obviously.

Europe also fell behind significantly in everything space. SpaceX has cheap reusable rockets and shovels satellites into orbit by the bucketload.

Europe needs its own Starlink like space infrastructure.

Convenience. Most people reads book once, if they finish it at all.

Why don’t you use library genesis or Anna‘s archive?