It’s because this place is run by TheDude. As we all know: TheDude abides.

If you click on the graph, it’ll turn into a data table showing ~48 hours worth of information. Is that what you’re looking for?

Oops. Good to know… I guess the main thing was simply that there was a BK in the right place relative to the 9792 km arc then.

This might be a stretch but McD can be franchised. If one franchisee pays top dollar for ad placement and other nearby franchises don’t, it would be profitable for them to send you to that franchisee even if it’s further.

…that being said I’m probably reading too much into it. Probably just your usual Google jank.

I’m not the person who found it originally, but I understand how they did it. We have three useful data points: you are 2.6 km from Burger King in Italy, that BK is on a street called "Via " and you are 9792 km from Burger King in Malaysia.

1. The upper BK in Malaysia is not censored, so we have its exact location.
2. Find a place in Italy that is 9792 km away using the Measure Distance tool on something like Google Maps.
3. Even though there are potentially multiple valid locations in Italy, we know you’re within 2.6 km of another BK. Florence is sensible because there are BKs near the 9792 km mark.
4. Once we do that, we can find a spot that is both 9792 km from Malaysia BK and 2.6 km from a nearby BK on a street called “Via”, effectively finding where the image was taken.

It’s not perfect but it works well! This is the principle of how your GPS works. It’s called triangulation. We only had distance to two points and one of them doesn’t tell us the sub-kilometer distance. If we had distance to three points, we could find your EXACT location, within some error depending on how detailed the distance information was.

You say “only” 6 months ago but it’s surprising to me just how quickly this time has passed.

I was a Reddit every day user pre-Lemmy. I happened to get linked to something there yesterday and saw all my sub’s “last visited” dates at 6 months. It’s crazy how easy it was to go cold turkey and I haven’t seen a need to go back.

It’s up for me. This might just be a fail-safe response if the server software drops or something like that (especially since the Lemmy software hasn’t been thoroughly tested except lately). If Beehaw intended to permanently take down their instance they’d probably make beehaw.org link to a blog post instead of a white screen that just says “deleted”.

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Hey, wanted to say thanks again for running an instance with a critical mass of users that’s so easy to register on. This is the kind of thing people from the old site need if they’re actually going to get on Lemmy. Big instances don’t accept new users readily and small instances run into weird issues like needing to get the server to discover the “big” subs that people are interested in.

This one is at the size where the average user can just get in and go. You might say… shit just works.