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It might be empty because your instance doesn’t get posts by that account, iirc it starts when someone follows the other account. In other words, if no one on your home instance is already following them, your instance doesn’t have their old posts. I might be wrong though.

Swimming against the current is how all social progress is made.

Surely they will learn from their mistakes and want to be in control of their own data, instead of just switching to another centralized platform they have no control over?

Deuteronomy 7?

If Trump was an old school italian mafia guy, his nickname could be Donnie Two Weeks.

I started commuting by bus when this started. The trip takes 10 minutes longer, but it’s time I would have spent doomscrolling before work anyways. Now I can doomscroll on the bus instead.

So the options are to either support a genocidal state and get praise, or to be called a nazi for not supporting a genocidal state? This logic is strange to me.

Trust takes time. No set of laws can be trusted until we have seen them work in practice. It will take time.

What can an ordinary person do about this? I moved my savings to ETFs that specifically exclude the US the moment Trump was elected. But my debit card is connected to Mastercard and there’s no europan alternative in my country. Or is it more about the big picture and not what I personally do or avoid?

I’m a little bit confused by this, “For decades its share of global GDP has been shrinking and its geopolitical influence eroding.” Isn’t this another way of saying that many poor countries have managed to get out of poverty and gain their independence? A good thing.
We should keep our ideals of democracy and rule of law, but is that in conflict with the world getting richer generally? Do we need to be above everyone else to protect our values?

If Hungary is against it, it’s probably something that will be good for the EU in general.

It matters if future security guarantees are conditional on Ukraine not attacking Russia. If Russia can claim they were attacked without any fact checking now, they might do the same in the future when it matters more. Showing Russia that their claims are not automatically believed is positioning for the future.

I recently got a managed Nextcloud instance at Hetzner, it’s more storage than I need so I’m creating accounts for friends and family if they want. So far, nobody wants it, but… still.

There is even an IANA RFC for three-letter acronyms (TLAs) (RFC5513), which says:

"For our usage, we also allow digits within a TLA. Thus, P2P is an
acronym meaning Purchase to Pay [URL-P2P]. The digits 2 and 4 are
specially used by clever people who have noticed that, when spoken,
they sound like the words ‘to’ and ‘for’. Whether this is helpful
may be left as an exercise for the user considering the brief
conversation, below.

A - Do you use the Internet Streams Protocol?
B - Yes. Do you use ST, too?
A - No, I use ST2.
B - That’s interesting. C uses ST2, too.
A - I have a car horn application called Toot-toot.
B - Really? Do you use ST2 to Toot-toot, too?"