not from the bottom (i.e. south)
schnurrito
I am not American, but Austrian. I earn way more money than I spend each month, causing my bank balance to rise over time; I am not going to say exactly how much I have, but €1000 (which is about the same as $1000) is no problem for me to afford when I need it.
While it's better than the alternative, it still doesn't make me very happy because this only helps fulfill the bottom two levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I wish I could easily earn less money, but have more free time to travel and pursue hobbies, but the system of wage labor is not flexible enough to cover the needs of someone like me.
That isn't shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
How were you "not able to post anything"? If you noticed you weren't able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell
wot
the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here
A lot of FOSS projects have succeeded in approximately this way. I think it can only be a matter of time until this happens even in this area.
Lemmy doesn't have any code in it whose only purpose is to maximize profit (e.g. code for showing ads) but isn't necessary for functionality. Also, the decentralized nature means that any given instance has to serve only a subset of users, not all of them like reddit does.
Red is associated with social democracy, socialism, communism in most countries; almost only in the US is it the color of the conservative party.
except Australia is a lot bigger than PNG