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  • Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence?

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  • Ah, that makes sense. So the FediDB info seems to be wrong - I wonder if they got confused by cloudflare as per the other comment in https://feddit.org/post/4529920/2993842 ?

    Also, is there a way to let them know to update it? I guess someone could report an issue on github...

  • Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence?

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  • That confuses me too. I've never really understood that. Likewise, /m/news is for US news while world news goes into /m/world and US news isn't allowed.

    Maybe that's another reason why folks thing it's US-based - because the magazines are clearly so US oriented. But I'm not sure how that happened.

    On the brain bin for example it's PoliticsUSA - https://thebrainbin.org/m/PoliticsUSA

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  • The other thing is that I recall that kbin.social exploded and got a huge chuck of the exodus - but now that it's been effectively dead for half a year, those users mostly seem to have vanished.

    A fraction clearly did migrate to other mbin and lemmy instances. It seems like the rest did not return to spez's site from what I'm hearing ("all the posts I'm seeing there are complaining that only bots are active here") but I'm not sure where they went. But for example, one person I was following seems to have dropped off entirely from the fediverse and all social media.

  • Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence?

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  • Why did you think lemmy.world was US based? It's fully European.

    But that's probably it - folks assume the instance that's for the whole world is the US-based one and don't feel the need to make another major US-based one.

  • Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence?

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  • Came here to say that. I wasn't covered by GDPR under spez's site - but luckily their policies treated me like I was anyways.

    I moved to kbin.social - which was probably the 2nd largest after lemmy.world. Also, it was Polish.

    What I liked about that was - as per my understanding - since these are hosted in the EU, the GDPR applies to my data here even if I'm not the EU myself and am not an EU citizen.

  • Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence?

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  • With a tld ending like .world you'd think it's for the whole world, not just europe (.eu) or a specific country.

    feddit.org itself is a bit of a curiosity since the .org doesn't make it obvious that it is German - but someone posted the full story of how feddit.de fell apart and feddit.org became the successor.

  • What is your favorite Fediverse platform?

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  • What's interesting is that currently, the site is broken, but in the footer you can see the last set of magazines that were new.

    Which means the database is still intact, and if not a full resurrection, we could get our data back at least (I lost a lot of content when kbin.social went down). Just gotta figure out who to contact - which company is actually maintaining or hosting the servers that kbin.social run on..

  • What is your favorite Fediverse platform?

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  • What's your current kbin instance? Curious to see if it's running mbin now or if it really is the original kbin on there still.

    Also, anyone remember kbin.cafe ?

  • What is your favorite Fediverse platform?

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  • Yeah, that chart needs to be updated. AFAIK no instance is still on kbin, everything has gone to mbin. It's also missing pyfedi/piefed

  • What is your favorite Fediverse platform?

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  • As far as I can tell there's been no communication from him for several months and not since he posted saying he'd turn kbin.social over to a new admin.

    But the domain for kbin.social was recently renewed (I posted full details over at https://fedia.io/m/fediverse/t/1403334/Any-updates-on-kbin-social-recently ) which gives me hope that ernest is still around, just a bit more behind the scenes.

    Of course, it could also be that the domain was simply auto-renewed (as described in https://www.godaddy.com/en-ca/help/turn-my-domain-auto-renew-on-or-off-41085 ). I think some registrars or services even offer prepayment options for auto-renewing, meaning that ernest might have set this all up before he disappeared, rather than slowly reappearing now...

  • qBit doesn't update free space after deleting torrent

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  • While this would almost certainly work, it would be nice if the root cause can be discovered and either fixed or worked around. Having to reinstall everytime one needs to free up disk space is .. less than ideal.

  • China Confronts Europe Over Climate-Based Trade Restrictions

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  • I think we're agreed here. With China being the largest emitter of current (as opposed to cumulative) emissions, a formula - which would indeed likely be quite complex - is needed here that can fairly take that into account along with the other points (like the accelerated timeframe required as compared to the rich countries).

    The article makes a good point - which I think you allude to - about the definition of rich countries perhaps needing to be updated as part of this (for example, you include South Korea, who isn't on that list, though weirdly, Japan is, despite having a post WW-II date of the 1960s). Probably should be "advanced economies" instead of "rich countries" - so China would be rich via total GDP measures but perhaps not an advanced economy yet due to the low average per capital GDP or low average individual citizen's income, for example, while the US would be advanced and rich while (for example) North Korea wouldn't be either.

  • China Confronts Europe Over Climate-Based Trade Restrictions

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  • China Confronts Europe Over Climate-Based Trade Restrictions

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  • The point was not about need but fairness. By total GDP alone, China could certainly fit whatever criteria to be included in the list of rich countries - but it seems that it's understood that this isn't particularly fair.

    Likewise, the rich countries on the list have had over a century since their respective industrial revolutions to take advantage of it and use it to accumulate the wealth needed to go green. China, however, would have to change much faster than the rest. This is the unfairness being addressed (as opposed to need), and the credits were just one idea to address that.

  • 2024 US House Races Megapost!

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  • Hmm.. I understand the that last line to mean that every State should have the same number of Senators in the Senate.

    But from https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/56523/can-the-us-senate-be-abolished-without-unanimous-consent-of-the-states it sounds like a workaround is simply to set that equal number to zero. Meanwhile there's no prohibition on adding a new, third House to Congress - so maybe we reply the Senate with the House of of State Peers or something.

    Alas, it looks like we're screwed now.

  • 2024 US House Races Megapost!

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  • Agreed, but does it require every state to agree? If enough constitutional amendments could be passed and ratified by a two thirds majority on all levels, then the Constitution could simply be amended to implement those changes (and the authors behind the paper for this proposal expect that this is exactly what will happen once the plan is executed successfully - rather than Dems abusing their power or DC enacting minority rule over the entire country, they'll cooperate to design a better, fairer, and reformed system)

  • The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting

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  • This issue already exists, regardless of the embed server problem. Right now, images posted by users to an instance get sent to that community's instance and then copied to all instances of all subscribers.

    If anything, the embed server provides a potential solution - rather than federate the image directly, simply link to the copy of the image on the embed server. (I've done some customized code changes on top of pyfedi to implement this idea there.)

    I imagine instance admins would still want to to monitor and delete links to CP, but under this idea only the admins of the embed server and their delegates would have the ability to remove CP from the embed server itself. (Should they delegate this ability to other instance admins? Probably only on a case-by-case basis at most.)

    Perhaps they could support a reporting functioning from mods and instance admins though..

  • Kamala Harris predicted to win by nearly every major forecaster

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  • China Confronts Europe Over Climate-Based Trade Restrictions

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  • It's a good article. Considering that China is still considered a developing country, it makes sense that it would still not yet be included in that list of rich countries.

    I was thinking that perhaps a trade could be be concluded here. Places like China gets credits in recognition of having to bear that accelerated burden, which it can exchange in place of climate-changed related tariffs. So, China would - for a limited time - continue to get tariff free access to the EU, but would have to deliver on climate change in order to avoid tariffs completely.