It contains cyanides, so if you eat too many apples this way, expect headache

especially without even Germans living there

Germans were brutally deported after WW2

Lords used to have flammable houses as well before they started building castles out of stone

When Ivan I became a ruler of Moscow, Rus had already been conquered by Mongols for 80 years.

Kiev lost its political importance long before Mongols, when Andrey Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal captured Kiev in 1149 and just went back home instead of staying to rule there. He later led the sack of Kiev in 1169, ending the Kievan Rus period.

I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

so cosy and minimal!

IRC is actually somewhat federated, as one network can consist of multiple servers hosted by different people.

Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed

You could still use WebDAV. It’s simple and works with most file managers.

be my wifi

cat bud

or moves at constant speed

Short answer: Yes, this is stupid.

I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.

No. https://woof.group/@aphyr/113596102626961803

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds

what’s the point then

They can be URNs (like magnet:), as shown above.

It’s not true, all ActivityPub IDs are URIs

ActivityPub spec allows content-addressed IDs, just nobody implemented them and now it’s too late.

https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

Nostr has existed long before, and Dorsey left because he’s a crybaby who’s unhappy with moderation existing

Channelling discontent in some way, with a bit of classic divide & conquer