because the UK gave up most of that power in the second half of the 20th century, now the UK is a relatively small country (by area and population) that is increasingly isolating itself from the world (Brexit) rather than attempting to influence global politics a lot more than other countries of comparable size, population, and wealth

But the US is slowly losing influence too. In 1990 its side had won the Cold War, but since then other things have happened: 9/11, Iraq War, George W. Bush, the war on terror, Donald Trump; many geopolitical events of the present can be explained (in part) by the fact that the US is losing influence over the world.

Is this not basically true, that that is how group federation works? Not sure what exactly you are trying to say.

ok fair point :D

read it again, I quoted a typo by OP, there’s not actually a letter “n” in the word “community”

I’m pretty sure “conmunity” does indeed not mean anything and never has.

Das Stichwort, nach dem du suchst, ist: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klagebefugnis

Ich bin mit dem von dir genannten Fall mit den bayrischen Kruzifixen nicht vertraut. Wenn es da um Kruzifixe in Schulen und Behörden ging, würde ich argumentieren, dass Schüler, Lehrer und Eltern von Schülern einer solchen Schule betroffen sind, bzw. jeder betroffen ist, der gezwungen ist, eine solche Behörde zu besuchen. Ich weiß natürlich nicht, ob ein Gericht sich dieser Argumentation anschließen würde.

In einem Rechtsstaat kann man im Allgemeinen nur gegen Dinge klagen, die einen auch wirklich selbst betreffen (in seinen Rechten einschränken).

Dafür muss man nicht unbedingt “privilegiert” sein, es würde wohl auch reichen, in der Nähe der Grenze zu wohnen und sie regelmäßig für Besorgungen oder Arbeitsweg zu überqueren.

Weil das eine Beschreibung in ungefähr demselben Stil ist wie der Artikel im OP. Der Punkt ist, man kann sehr viele Dinge auf derart sinnlose Weise erklären und dadurch komisch klingen lassen.

https://xkcd.com/1436/

Yes; I thought there had been enough news stories about this that this was common knowledge?

I think the above user was referring to this: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-private-information

They are no longer making the information public which aircraft belongs to whom, so in the future you might no longer know that any given aircraft belongs to Elon Musk or any other celebrity. You can still track it, but you won’t know what aircraft to track.

yes it will for those who (like me) are sorting by “new comments”

Der Artikel zitiert jemanden, der Peter Thiel als Faschisten bezeichnet. An genau der Stelle kann man aufhören, den Artikel ernstzunehmen, denn Peter Thiel hat bekanntlich rechtslibertäre (also das exakte Gegenteil von faschistischen) Ansichten. Schade.

For my country there is a price comparison website at geizhals.at which is where I usually start. They also seem to be a thing for Germany, the UK, and Poland. Maybe there are similar services for other countries too?

Ja, es ist sinnvoll, dass Pornografie nicht für 14jährige verfügbar ist.

Mittlerweile gibt es sehr viele Erwachsene, die in ungefähr diesem Alter angefangen haben, Pornografie anzusehen. (Muss ich wissen, ich bin einer davon.) Wir können feststellen, dass das niemandem ernsthaft geschadet hat, also warum akzeptieren wir überhaupt diese Prämisse?

Yes, you’re also one of the few usernames I keep seeing repeatedly.

True, that structure does also have its own peculiar problems.

It’s just what I grew up with (from when I was a preteen, only first became active on reddit ~10 years later), so I’m kinda nostalgic for it. :D One aspect of linear forums is that you gradually got to know the people regularly commenting, much more so than on reddit or Lemmy.

ActivityPub is flexible enough that we don’t have to choose. Someone could implement a piece of compatible software that displays threadiverse communities as “boards” and everyone could join whatever they liked best. NodeBB is already doing something similar to that.

In my mind, that shows that “copying reddit” was not the best idea and people should really have copied things like phpBB or SMF for the flagship “community-based” fediverse platform, at least to start out.

On traditional forums, even relatively small communities cause interesting content to appear all the time, by thread bumping and back-and-forth discussion that can go over many pages. However it is obvious that this structure doesn’t scale well to communities with thousands of active users writing thousands of comments in one thread. The reddit structure works better for such communities, but most communities we have here on the threadiverse just aren’t that big yet.

I grew up with traditional forums and discovered other structures for “social media” much later; I still consider traditional forums way superior to any “social media” structure that is nowadays popular.

yes, this is how we did it, only we lived in an apartment where there were only so many possible hiding places, so it was never an enormous challenge in later years :D