I'm sure it's very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.
Akkoma and probably others like Misskey I assume do have follower-only posts and they do get used by some people who like to communicate with a small group and otherwise keep things private.
Okay fediverse, you've been told. It has been requested that everyone on the whole network stops using #hashtags because one lemmy.world user finds it personally inconvenient the way their instance's software deals with it. I expect everyone to comply immediately.
I didn't start the day expecting to have the experience of suddenly wondering why I'd never thought before about the question of how many times you'd have to fold a piece of paper in half before you got a black hole and then knowing the answer in about three seconds, but given that I did it's no surprise that it's due to xkcd.
This being c/politics I feel justified in pointing out that growing extremism among politicians probably has much more of an effect than extremism "online."
Well for one thing, there is that one obvious thing which Americans and everyone else are also unready to hear: You need to give up fossil fuels. No more coal, no more gas, no more petrol, no more diesel. Some parts of Europe like to think they're well on the way to that goal but even there for the most part you've barely begun and are moving too slowly or in the wrong direction (e.g. biofuels). The hard part cannot be put off for much longer.
I have no idea about how people in the UK should react and I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of it is that if no one involved in running your site is British, it's not hosted in the UK, and you don't have any kind of business relationships with people in the UK, you absolutely should not worry about it or take any action at all beyond making sure you don't sign any deals or offer any products for sale in that country.
They cannot legally or practically do anything to you beyond perhaps blocking access to your site somehow I suppose, and in the extremely unlikely event that they tried something crazy you'd be an international cause celebre with plenty of legal support available. Doing their dirty work for them by trying to block British IP addresses seems inadvisable.
I'm sure it's very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.