It’s a part of the header sent with every internet request. Standard thing to identify the user’s language so you know which version to send

Why would they? They get the money. I feel like that system is just prime corruption/malpractice and leads to crap like this.

It’s for profit all the way through

While that’s true, there’s also the “Works on my machine” effect.

It might’ve been less obstructive on their pc than on op’s

The way I interpret the comment is that they are saying “If you would eat normally, you couldn’t be that thin.”

It’s a reference to the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into a different form.

Federated means that any instance that is federated with them receives their content and can bee seen on that instance.

Defederated means they are not federated anymore, thus blocking both users and content.

It’s usually done to combat content you don’t want on your instance

I don’t understand what you mean, would you elaborate?

The entire situation is fubar. I feel for the citizens of both Israel and Palestine as both countries are just horrible to each other. To me it feels like there is no good side, whatever you choose, you end up with one form of evil x.x

I wish there would be a good way to solve this but I am not sure that this will be fixed any time soon. Hopefully the bloodshed will be minimal, because hoping for none at all would be futile

Variation of Aogigahara, exit game forest in Japan. Inserted favorite color, red, which in japanese is aka

It refers to the fact that communities belong to a specific instance. These instances can federate, as in “be a whole, made out of two”, or stay separate and stay isolated