I have never heard that before this thread, possibly because I was born in Austria decades after the name "Deutsches Reich" was abolished.

Perhaps more realistic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_law

I don't think this is an accurate description of the debate.

My understanding of the "TERF" position is that they say that if it is excessively easy to declare oneself as trans, this can be misused by men wanting to get access to spaces reserved for women. Whether one agrees with that point or not, I do not think it is completely illegitimate.

I usually don't say anything about this topic at all on the Internet and I am right now reminded of why. I am already starting to regret stating even my relative neutrality on it.

Wait, what. Someone misses proprietary software that was rightfully killed in favor of open standards?

Where do you see bot traffic? From my observations, Lemmy has the opposite problem than what you describe in your point 1: all threads I see do get plenty of comments (not as many as reddit, but still plenty), but we get relatively few new threads. Or does that only happen in specific communities? I don't look at communities I'm not subscribed to, maybe that is why.

It does, but if someone makes changes that actively degrade the map, they can be reverted and blocked from editing. There are monitoring tools available and in general things like that don't tend to happen, at least not in areas with an active good faith community.

Donations. Wikimedia proves that some people will want to donate if they find something useful.

Homeless people can vote in Austria too. But they do have to register separately as such. For everyone else, the government already knows where they live (because we are required to register our residences) and uses that information to compile a voter registry .

Less than a month ago when I hadn't yet accidentally deleted several days of vacation photos. Other than that, my life tended to get better over time, no way am I travelling back to a time when it was worse.

I remember some things that happened 12 years ago better than some that happened 2 years ago. Memory works like that.

Even more than on Wikipedia. The problem with Wikipedia is it tries to use a wiki to write about contentious issues like politics, culture war, religion, national conflicts etc. too and wikis just aren't a very suitable mechanism for that. OSM tries to limit itself to completely objective facts about the world, wikis are very well suited for that.

I think a file manager, text editor and command prompt are pretty essential too. And when you've added those, where exactly is the limit where it becomes "application software"?