I have brought this up before with my instance admins, that there were communities in the search results whose hosting instances were no longer up. They told me that there was no good way to do anything about this, the only thing they could do is defederate from those instances but that would delete old threads.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/35829576

The greentext reminds me of this FAQ entry: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-vendor

A.9.17 As one of our existing software vendors, can you just fill in this questionnaire for us?

We periodically receive requests like this, from organisations which have apparently sent out a form letter to everyone listed in their big spreadsheet of ‘software vendors’ requiring them all to answer some long list of questions […]

We don't make a habit of responding in full to these questionnaires, because we are not a software vendor.

A software vendor is a company to which you are paying lots of money in return for some software. They know who you are, and they know you're paying them money; so they have an incentive to fill in your forms and questionnaires [...] because they want to keep being paid.

[...]

If you work for an organisation which you think might be at risk of making this mistake, we urge you to reorganise your list of software suppliers so that it clearly distinguishes paid vendors who know about you from free software developers who don't have any idea who you are. Then, only send out these mass mailings to the former.

seems to not be FOSS from a quick web search?

Quick reminder that draw.io is no longer free and open source software.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

but the sources to build those files are not in this repo. This is not an open source project.

Yes, e.g. Krita has long been available for Android tablets.

darktable on Android would be awesome, I don't think there's currently any good FOSS raw development software for Android.

you're wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it's late 1901

Last one must have been GTA 4 (I've meanwhile bought this on Steam so I can play it without) or Crazy Taxi (came with a cereal box in my childhood).

If an instance (= a topic group, e. g. “memes”,“World news” or “MapPorn” in the example picture) is moving from one server to another (= the name and/or ending changes), how to properly follow the move?

You find out about it the way you did, then follow the new one. I don't think there's a mechanism to do that automatically.

And what happens to the “old” instances, that are discontinued? Should I keep the following?

In this particular case, you can see in the sidebar that the community is locked, i.e. there will not be any new posts, i.e. there is no point in keeping the subscription. It also doesn't hurt anything though.

This has been a thing since at least 2010 when it happened to WikiLeaks.

see also: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech

so which is it, are you asking for a friend or for help improving this? :D

https://xkcd.com/927/

also, are there not ungoogled distributions of Chromium OS? If there are not, maybe that could be the answer.

What is the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all your devices and accesses your data, the other is a hardware standard.