Yeah, I really don’t understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that’s it. You’re on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.

In der Tat. Der ist mittlerweile so lange weg, dass selbst ausgedehnte Reisen irgendwann vorbei sein müssten

Here is the data they are forced to report to the EU:

Logged In X Users 61.8M Logged Out Guests 49.6M Total 111.4M

https://transparency.x.com/en/reports/amars-in-the-eu/amars-in-the-eu-aug-24

“Logged out Guests” is everyone who gets linked to a thread, who was send an video on Twitter and so on. And also take a look at the definition of the logged in users:

EU Active Recipients of the Service - Average between August 1st 2023 - January 31 2024

So you do count as active EU user if you have logged in between August and January with an IP address from the EU. That should even include some tourists.

Und selbst wenn sie das zeitnah schaffen … dann erfährt man das Ergebnis ein paar Stunden vor den anderen Menschen, die gemütlich schlafen und sich das dann nach dem Aufstehen anschauen. Und in den paar Stunden in der Nacht kann man mit der Info auch herzlich wenig anfangen, noch nicht mal irgendwelche Börsenspekulation betreiben

No, but there really is a difference to Russia

Still better than Chrome. Mozilla is not perfect, but in comparison to Google and its behavior they are saints.

Mein Lieblingsrechenbeispiel in dieser Debatte: Rechne einfach mal aus, was es kostet einen einzigen Wachmann vor das schicke Atommülllager zu stellen. 24/7. 3 Schichten pro Tag. Zum aktuellen Mindestlohn von 12,41€. Für zwei Millionen Jahre. Das ist das absolute Minimum, was du machen musst und selbst das macht dir deine Atomkraft unprofitabel

Russia invaded a peaceful european country without any reason and is committing war crimes there. Every country which supports them is supporting that. Fuck everyone who is downtalking that and is talking about “nothing new” or “the west is also…”

Kind of not what you’re looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.

Guter Plan, aber Polizisten können doch gar nicht lesen und schreiben!

Language is democratic. If people are starting to speak or write in a certain way, that is the correct way to use a language. I know that we have all these organizations trying to define “correct” language use, but if many Germans are deciding that they want to use this apostrophe, that should be correct.

And there is another issue: There are a lot of people looking down on people who can’t read or write correctly. You can see this here: people are calling other people itiots just because they are using an apostrophe in a not officially accepted way. Which should never, never happen

meine ich ja - das ist völlig verständlich und würde das Deutschlernen definitiv vereinfachen

Der Rechtschreibrat sollte einfach alle regelmäßig gebildeten Formen zu unseren unregelmäßigen Verben zu korrektem Deutsch erklären.

Die Liste könnte man noch ewig fortführen. Erwähnte ich, dass die Vorgängerregierung sich einen Verfassungsschutzpräsidenten gegönnt hat, der fleißig den Aufstieg einer völlig offensichtlich rechtsextremen und von Russland gesteuerten Partei ignoriert hat, der dann später eine eigene rechtsextreme Partei gegründet hat?

It is even worse:

Between 20-25% of the European population is functionally illiterate. In other words: at least one citizen in five does not have the reading and writing skills they need for functioning in society, with all its consequences for education, employment, health care, welfare, social integration and political participation. ‘More than 73 million adults in the EU… do not have sufficient literacy levels to cope with the daily requirements of personal, social, and economic life’

https://blogs.fasos.maastrichtuniversity.nl/EUS2516/lowliteracyineurope/

So they are not just not reading any books, they literally can’t read books.

I would question your focus on growth. Yes, we all want this place to succeed. But do we really want this unlimited growth like Facebook, Reddit and all those other companies? Small communities are great, they give you a connection between users, they spark friendships and great discourse. Those are great. Yes, they are smaller than those multimillion user subreddits, but we’ve all seen those big subreddits slowly burning down. Dying to bots, to marketing spam, to low effort, popular comments, to reposts, to karma farming, to US politics. We’ve seen subreddit after subreddit dying to moderator burnout - because big subs are really hard to moderate, people will burn out. They are sacrificing their free time to deal with trolls, shills, putins guys and receive no compensation for that.

So maybe … let’s don’t replicate Reddit? Let’s focus on creating small, helpful communities and people will come.

If it is counting website visits, I’m wondering how they are filtering out bots using selenium on a linux system to crawl their sites. That should be a huge amount of traffic

Was ist das denn für ein mutiertes Memebild?

You should remove old posts & comments from every site you post to on a regular basis. There is no reason for those pictures from 2007 being on Facebook. Your old Twitter comments from 2011 might bit you in the ass in a few years. Nobody in their right mind is looking at your 2014 Instagram posts and you don’t want people out of their right mind seeing those. Why should that comment about Obamas election still be available for the world? Just nuke your old stuff on a regular basis - nobody looks at it and if people are searching through your old posts, they want to harm you.