No, the screenshot is real, they've been testing it in selected regions for a little bit
There's a post on hexbear explicitly about creating bots to brigade other instances, money's on that being a part of it
They get banned from Reddit and come here, and create their own little echo chamber
Lots of capchas usually, I can't remember being outright blocked when I used it
The post was already sarcastic though, so you didn't add anything
In the UK for a random guy it's usually Joe Bloggs.
SpaceX, does he have an E? X, Tesla
Amateur content does a lot better on places like Reddit, a lot of porn sites pretty much don't allow it
There is some software that it will plain just not run. I moved over to fedora from Windows and was loving it for about 6 months, but I needed CAD software for work that I could just not get to work, no matter what tinkering I did.
Britain had a highly favourable agreement with the EU that it negotiated decades ago. If it wanted to rejoin, it would do so without those privileges.