WordPress powers a huge percentage of all websites, and that's written in PHP. MediaWiki is too, although that's obviously a much smaller percentage.

That's not "happened to"; read the title text if you want to remove all reasonable doubt that it's a reference to it.

Of course. I find "social media" a suboptimal term anyway. A good term for the concept is the "participatory Internet".

But if we are going to use it, then it's just media that is produced by society at large as opposed to paid journalists or authors. Meaning Usenet is social media.

How is the fediverse different from traditional social media?

The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media.

I have a bit of a problem with the term "traditional social media".

The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more "tradition" than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized "tradition" of the Internet) "traditional social media"?! Is it just that they're the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?

Do they always do that?

I just looked through recent articles on vehicle-related incidents on a major local news website for my city, and that doesn't seem to be the case at least there.

• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3376060/ doesn't mention it, though it does have a photo of the car in question
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375812/ isn't directly about a car crash, but is about someone getting assaulted over vehicle-related behavior; doesn't mention the car model
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375778/ doesn't mention it

I was unable to quickly find a recent story on that site that does mention it, so your premise doesn't seem to be exactly true; maybe it's true where you live, but not everywhere in the world.

What does that calculation look like when also considering used cars?

I mean, every single time travel story ever has contradictions like that. One of the most famous is "Back to the Future", which when you think about the details of how time travel supposedly works, makes no sense at all.

I think nearly all popular ones that come with a graphical interface at all. There is a graphical updater by KDE called Discover that works on a lot of different distros.

I think very few if any words on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_English_word_list are offensive, and it has the size you want.

There was never a reason to hate Russian people, any more than any other humans on Earth. During the Cold War, there was a very good reason to reject the USSR for being communist, not for being Russian.

Now that Russia's state ideology is no longer communism, that is no longer applicable. It's still a very authoritarian country that does a lot of bad things, recently more of them than in the 1990s; but still considerably less bad than what the USSR was doing.

Another answer already gave you the information you look for, but this is really just a case of "politics makes strange bedfellows".

Russian government officials want to replace Windows with ReactOS because they want Russia to be independent from US companies like Microsoft.

I want to replace Windows with ReactOS because I believe in free and open source software as a movement for individual freedom.

We are not the same, but can still work together on something practical like this.

We all know that the EU wants age verification for the web.

Yes, and it needs to be fought politically.

But the idea that everyone on social media is a verified human beeing could also have a lot of positive effects.

No. No, it could not. I grew up with the idea of the Internet being a mostly separate space from real life, one where our identities do not matter as much, and want that to be the case as much as possible. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."