Bluesky does not have instances. It's an enterprise-architecture "solution" that almost nobody can (probably intentionally) host all of. The AppView in particular is difficult since it requires terabytes of storage and is likely to keep growing and it is also one of the components where they have done some moderation actions in the past.
Only one even close to providing a full alternative is Blacksky with their budget approaching $100k/year but even they don't have their AppView running in production yet.
This seems like your standard open core/dual licensing, CLA controlled BS where open source is indeed treated like an inconvenience... Perhaps with more obfuscation than on average. Probably not really adding requirements on top of AGPL as such but they seem to be offering multiple releases under a more restrictive license either because they have the rights so they can do dual licensing or they keep certain components proprietary and don't offer those with the team/community editions.
So yeah, probably within their legal rights and I assume there is still a codebase/release that you can use under the terms of the AGPL but they do seem to be looking for ways to make it be used as little as possible.
I could be wrong if the AGPL and other open source parts aren't enough for actually compiling a functional version of this but this is what it mostly looks like to me.
Basic math or not, you failed to respond to the actual claim and thus failed basic logic yourself. It wasn't just third party votes, the poster also included those that stayed home because of this profoundly bad idea that not voting for Harris would lead to anything good.
We've got phones with that amount of RAM now so it definitely isn't something just reserved for desktops. I tend to like getting something with plenty resources even if it's unnecessary at the time because it often means a longer lifespan for the hardware...
Interesting. They seem to be saying the index consists only of European sites as well. If that's the case I hope we can also do searches within Europe, the Ecosia announcement doesn't say much about that.
Well, parent poster was talking about Mastodon, you seem to be talking about threadiverse platforms like Lemmy. One thing that applies to both and every single platform that is large enough for that to happen is that you're always going to lose out on a lot of the content because there is just too much content for one person to look at. It isn't actually that difficult to subscribe so much that you get past that point in my experience.
For the Mastodon-type fediverse microblogging platforms there's some things that can help when trying to sift through the more popular stuff more (and less) similarly to how an algorithmic timeline would do it. Boost bots that track what's trending and tools like Phanpy that allow you to check out what has been boosted the most in your recent timeline. There's also starter packs (currently a fedidevs third party feature but will be added to Mastodon in the future too) and Sharkey antennas that let you watch for keywords over all the posts that flow through your instance. When it comes to things that aren't here yet but are being worked on Fediscovery seems very promising.
Maybe some of that stuff should exist for Lemmy etc. too or maybe the "all" feed could be improved.
I think they're automating the photo validation. The CEO mentioned something about giving back by releasing their facial recognition solution or something in the interview at Davos.
It's just how it goes, you only have one administration and people see that as representing your country. Happens with Russia too even though Russians certainly didn't vote to keep Putin in power for decades so you could just as well say none of them's to blame but whether reasonable or not people think they should rise up like Ukrainians did in that case...
Again, what de Gaulle thought in the 1960 of the initial stages does not tell you what the EU is today at all.
The reason the EU did not enter into a trade war at least so far is that economists would tell you it's still less harmful to just negotiate them to be as low as can be and let them be on one side, they hurt the USA more than the EU. Also note that the EU is in the process of negotiating Mercosur and resolving their issues with Chinese EVs so part of their response is to try to open up more free trade with other countries. Trump trying to press for European territory with them and not sticking to anything agreed upon may change the calculus in the future though.
Quoting ancient history that shows France was already fairly independent back then and that Germany wasn't shortly after WW2 isn't a very good argument.
Spain is calling for building a common defense capability because that is the one area where the EU isn't as independent as it should be in light of how undependable the USA has become. This has already started to change.
Bluesky does not have instances. It's an enterprise-architecture "solution" that almost nobody can (probably intentionally) host all of. The AppView in particular is difficult since it requires terabytes of storage and is likely to keep growing and it is also one of the components where they have done some moderation actions in the past.
Only one even close to providing a full alternative is Blacksky with their budget approaching $100k/year but even they don't have their AppView running in production yet.