My second language, but in Spanish he’s Calamardo Tentáculos

SpongeBob is Bob Esponja

I’ve got one but really basically never use it

It’s just the old one from the living room though I’d never buy a bedroom TV

Partially based on relations between the countries and also if they think people from that country are likely to stay illegally.

If two countries are close politically, they’ll often have a visa waiver for each other, such as Canada/US. These citizens can cross into either country anytime without reason, usually for 1-6 months.

Then you’ll often see countries that are close politically but with a large wealth/standard of living disparity. A lot of times the citizens from the richer country are free to enter the poorer one with generous time limits, while the citizens from the poorer country have a lot more restrictions. Sometimes they have visa free zones near the border but would need to apply for a visa to go further or stay longer, but the visa isn’t too hard to obtain.

Then if your countries are hostile (or even neutral but with an extreme wealth/standard of living gap) then you’ll find it extremely hard to get a visa and you’ll be basically interrogated about the purpose of your visit and likely denied anyway.

I feel like there’s probably hundreds who post at least once a month

I’m sure it was nothing mission critical.

I hope.

I have no sympathy for day traders

I believe it’s three instances that were picked for the moment, including mine (I’m the admin) which has been going for nearly 3 years. I think their logic is to spread people out from the big instances.

I would want to know the answer to questions such as: (1) are there multiple people on the instance admin team, (2) are they well-funded, since a negative answer to either of those might mean that the server disappears six months from now, which is a major inconvenience.

I mean I think most people ending up on that page probably don’t even know to ask. They may have no familiarity with fediverse software or what the hell an instance is. They just want to sign up to this reddit alternative they heard about.

It’s a hard balance for sure.

It hasn’t changed too much. It was wild for a hot minute and then mellowed out. Some people feared it failed but it just stayed steady year after year.

Yep that was a change a while back. Choice makes some people think there’s too much effort involved so the first recommendation is a random “general” server. You can still see the list if you want.

Yep. And a ton of the roads have cars parked basically every possible free spot.

What? It’s like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address.

YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

You may as well be mad at vim because your text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt

What they’ve done, is in the user info field (which already has a ton of information that almost nobody ever fills out) they added a date of birth field. They do not control what it’s used for, who’s going to use it, or if the user will ever bother filling it out. Perhaps nobody will ever implement a use for it, it’s really nothing.

Honestly it’s such a minor change, I’m pretty sure they could just grab all the upstream commits in the future and not do anything and it’ll be fine.

Obviously not, that would be something very very different than what they’ve done.

Yeah people are weird about it. I’ve never had any systematic issue from .ml

The closest US state to Africa is Maine

The Moon is much further than you’d intuitively assume. In fact, you can fit every other planet in the solar system between the Earth and the Moon. At the same time.

I mean it’s been around the longest and has the most subscribers. Most people only look at that, and I feel like arbitrarily splitting communities is actively harmful to the fediverse. Competing communities confuse and drive away new users.

!linuxphones@lemmy.ml

Huh, an actually good brain-computer interfaces.