The more important metric to Canonical however is corporate / paying customer marketshare - I am guessing it hasn't suffered too much otherwise they would have backed down on some of their decisions regarding snaps.
If you don't mind clarifying, what do you mean by DoD?
To be fair, even a skilled users may just not notice something like this. There are many things we do in our day to day life without paying enough attention, particularly when it's routine / something we feel adept using.
Normally I would say community forks have the power to continue the project. However, in this case I think chrome / safari would eventually add enough new features that Firefox forks can't add quick enough. Mozilla at least has some power in pushing the direction of web-standards, which these forks would lack, as well as the larger development team and some corporate usage of the browser which Mozilla has. I also don't see the smaller development community keeping up with security issues found in the browser, particularly pertinent for corporate marketshare and individuals with a stricter threat model (journalists, dissidents, etc.)
The only other factor, is whether Firefox dissapearing would officially create impetus for an anti-trust case against Google. I doubt so under the current American presidency, but I could see the EU being concerned (even if they lack the power the US has to force the company to split). If something were to happen here there would be substantial change in the browser market, but I wouldn't be too hopeful of this happening.
The foundation supports a bunch of other open source projects, after all there is a lot more to devices that run the Linux kernel then just the kernel.
Also, I found it a but funny that the foundation created the PDF using Adobe InDesign 19.4 (Windows), according to the metadata in file posted on their website. (original | archive of the PDF)
The other nice thing for "state funded media" is they often have translations for international audiences
For example CBC / Radio-Canada also have an international page, Radio-Canada International offered in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic etc.
I am happy that the FTC is trying to act in the best interest of consumers, in recent history the FTC and similar entities worldwide have failed to stop anti-consumer behaviour and it's refreshing to see them actually doing this.
Agora (ἀγορά) is a great name for a community! I'm looking forward to seeing the posts in it.
I do have a question about the donations. Some projects/sites have a donation "goal" to keep a project going for a certain amount of time. Will you be doing something similar? Along the lines of a goal of X amount of $CAD to maintain the instance's running costs for one year.
Here is the post on Beehaw announcing the defederation from sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world
Tldr; there is a lack of moderating tools for this platform and given the community that Beehaw wants to create they cannot federate with large open-regestration instances. A few bad actors on these two instances were causing too much moderation hassle so they decided to defederate. They also wish for more granular federation controls akin to Mastodon, to avoid the nuclear option of defederation. At the time they also only had 4 moderators for the entire instance (people can't create their own communities)
Since then they have gotten more mods, and TheDude (our instance admin) has reached out to beehaw and they are currently collaborating which will likely lead to refederation (more can be found in this post on Beehaw)
Edit: I had some issues making this reply, so if you see this pop up more than once i sincerely apologize.
I actually am a little curious what TheDude’s opinion is on open vs closed registration policy. If having a closed registration policy is all that is needed for beehaw to refederate then perhaps that is an option, otherwise let us just hope the necessary mod tools (or more than 4 beehaw mods) happen to allow for refederation. It’s a shame since I feel like this is a really important / formative time and I do not think larger instances defederating is productive.
But that’s just my uneducated 2 cents :p
Just out of curiosity, would it help if when posting images we use services such as imgur (or alternatives)? I’m assuming if there is storage issues those type of posts are the biggest culprit.
Thank you for hosting this server @TheDude :)
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Isn't the better option still electric (catenary; not battery) trains? I'd imagine the emissions from the batteries (that would need cells replaced / new batteries when airplanes are replaced) would outweigh the ecological impact of the train tracks installation.