obviously it’s a remote service, so you don’t directly control it unless you run it yourself, but the website links to this repo https://github.com/gugray/rss-parrot so the code does seem to be available under a free license (I have not tried to run it myself)

https://rss-parrot.net/

This puts any RSS feed into your Mastodon feed.

I post a lot and don’t usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.

The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.

This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it…

Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or… here are some starting points for further research:

• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88635/can-the-uk-government-do-anything-about-a-foreign-media-platform-rooting-for-civ
• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20490/what-politically-can-be-done-to-compel-global-compliance-by-google
• https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/

Assuming “EU” means “European Union” (the acronym can stand for other things too): if you don’t put “Europe” or “European Union” in the title or sidebar, no one who searches for these things is ever going to find this community.

also there is already !EuropeanUnion@europe.pub

Germany and Austria are divided into Länder (singular: Land), which literally just means country. (Germany has 16 of them, Austria 9.) This is usually translated as states or provinces in English, but the word in German isn’t Staaten or Provinzen, which is what we call the subdivisions of Australia, Canada, and the US.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is also divided into 4 countries.

Nothing I wrote is about “denigrating” people wishing for self-determination, or about “supporting the oppressive larger states”. It’s just currently a fact of the world that the independence movements in those places have not yet been successful. They might still be in the future!

Catalonia (the autonomous community or “nation” which Barcelona is the capital of) absolutely does have:

• its own parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Catalonia
• its own legal system, in the sense of laws passed by the aforementioned parliament
• its own justice system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice_of_Catalonia
• its own education system, nothing special about that, even in Germany each state has its own education system
• I can’t easily find information on taxation, benefits, or housing, but strongly suspects those are regional matters in Catalonia too

Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to “country”. Nothing particularly unique about the UK. The only thing that is unique is that in some sports, the UK’s subnational entities have separate teams, you are right about that part.

If everyone who sometimes calls themselves a nation counts, surely Barcelona must too… 😉

“National capital” = capital of an independent sovereign state.

Vatican, not really because it’s surrounded by another national capital.

Vienna and Bratislava are creating an interesting effect too.

That’s why it says “national” capital. The national capital of those places is London.

It seems that you understand what the term “metaverse” was even supposed to mean; care to enlighten the rest of us?

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

Why are we giving exposure to someone whose job it is to enforce restrictive copyright laws and who uses the term “intellectual property”?

What does that even mean…? If you know of something specific that is superior about analog compared to digital clocks, I’d like to hear it.

Plenty of people older than Gen Alpha very much prefer digital clocks too. I can read analog clocks but it takes me several seconds to convert it to digital time (which is how my brain thinks). As far as I’m concerned, analog clocks are a relic of the past and it’s a good thing to abolish as many of them as possible.

I remember a similar screen, though with the elements beside each other rather than on top of each other because I was on desktop. So yes, Cloudflare’s error messages are actually accurate in that regard.

with these things, I always wonder how different I would feel about them if my first language weren’t German and I didn’t understand what was actually being said; as it is, I need to concentrate very much on the subtitles

you’re the reason why threads like this exist: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/39307559