A quick question: are you looking for feedback on search results in other languages (as in, what I expect vs. what I get), or is it too early for that?
Monarchy never really works for long in Tolkien's works either. The history of the kings of Gondor is all strife and crises, and in Tolkien's abandoned sequel already 100 years later “the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse.” (Letter 256)
I suppose it fits with the rest of this article being rather disingenuous. Alex Gleason, Spinster and Neenster are part of a controversial group that detractors call "trans-exclusionary radical feminism." For better or for worse (the details of this controversy are not necessarily relevant), instances of that nature (and pretty much anything that runs on Soapbox) are defederated by a lot of Fediverse servers, and it seems that Meta for one reason or another has joined those servers. Gleason is well aware of this controversy.
My best guess is that Meta hopes to make itself appear more palatable to mainstream Mastodon servers by also defederating.
Yes, that was explicitly stated in an interview[1] a while back. Quoting from the specific section:
> “Okay, well, WhatsApp — we have this very strong commitment to encryption. So if we’re going to interop, then we’re either going to make the others encrypted, or we’re going to have to decrypt WhatsApp.” And it’s like, “Alright, we’re not going to decrypt WhatsApp, so we’re going to go down the path of encrypting everything else,” which we’re making good progress on. But that basically has just meant completely rewriting Messenger and Instagram direct from scratch.
I think they should be able to govern their instance as they wish, but it's odd that they don't understand that putting (for example) criticism of the Chinese communist party under a general anti-racism rule — without explicitly mentioning this — is rather confusing. It's certainly not what the average new user would understand as racism.
This specific ideological slant is also not clear from its description on the instance list[0], especially when compared to instances like Lemmygrad.
Yes you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s made out to be relatively censorship light, but in reality it isn’t. Things just need to be clear and up front so users know whether they want to use that instance.
There is an English version. It pops up when looking up subjects on https://www.thefreedictionary.com/, but I don't think there's a way to directly browse it (and I find the site in general rather cumbersome to use).
I studied art history in university, and for some reason, when looking up a certain obscurer topic brought up during a lecture on architecture, the only online source mentioning at the time was the English edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Nowadays other sources mention it, but at first glance the GSE still seems to be the only source actually describing it.
I wish there was a proper offline version of the GSE, since consulting it through https://www.thefreedictionary.com is rather cumbersome.
Unfortunately, the Webster's 1913 dictionary I use with that software (downloaded from a link in Somers' blog post) lacks the markup of this Mac version. And while GoldenDict supports many dictionary file formats, Apple's isn't among them.
Splendid, this sounds exactly like what we need in our channel. Is there a specific project page/Github issue/… I can keep an eye on, so that I know when this functionality is deployed?
One of the reasons for period tracking is identifying changes to one's menstrual cycle, which may indicate health issues.[1] So even if periods normally were to only last up to 10 days, not allowing to track for a longer period would impede that goal. In fact, this is even one the vague reasons Fitbit mentioned when it launched this functionality. [2] The functionality feels like a bit of an afterthought.
