If you’d asked me at the age of 9 I would have said, the entire playground should only be swings, everything else is unnecessary.

Younger children might not have appreciated the result very much.

Yeah well https://xkcd.com/2161/

auf Norwegisch wurde es gemacht: https://www.academia.edu/74208914/Old_customs_die_hard_The_new_way_of_counting_in_Norwegian_is_still_new

Es gibt seit mehr als 20 Jahren einen Verein, der sich dafür einsetzt, vielleicht willst du ihm ja beitreten oder ihn unterstützen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwanzigeins

The thing you posted this on is also social media.

At least according to the article, Malaysia’s ban is actually limited to big tech, making it slightly less bad than most Internet regulations that are just regulatory capture for big tech.

Has anyone tried to tell Malaysian teens about the fediverse and how they can still be here as much as they want, I wonder? 😜

There are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.

I don’t even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.

It would be a desirable consequence. I remember when I was the age that politicians currently want to ban from “social media”, I was active on web forums where the majority or at least a significant minority of active users were also that age.

But looking at current Internet users’ habits, especially those of the youngest ones, I’m not sure text-based communities are still interesting enough to them. Current Internet usage seems to mostly be about videos.

ha ha

Has that happened because of the existing similar laws in Australia and other countries?

I don’t think this is true because governments around the world have been restricting Internet freedom since way before that. The EU copyright directive passed in 2019, a relatively draconian EU regulation about “terrorist propaganda” in 2021, the UK’s Online Safety Act was also already introduced before that, so were SOSTA/FESTA… those can’t be explained only/mainly by wanting to censor criticism of Israel, so this cannot be the only reason for it, although it might well be a reason for some of the more recent ones.

“liberalism’s”? I can’t see anything liberal in that, by any definition of the word.

Oder Mauerschützen. Ist schon besser niemanden zu erschießen, der raus will. Wir erschießen halt Leute die reinwollen

Das ist weder moralisch noch völkerrechtlich dasselbe. Länder haben völlig legitimerweise die Möglichkeit, (hoffentlich demokratisch) zu beschließen, (bestimmte) Leute nicht reinzulassen - und das dann auch durchzusetzen. Das ist Ausdruck von Souveränität und es lässt sich sogar argumentieren, dass es notwendig ist, wenn man Demokratie haben will, oder wie will man Demokratie haben, wenn jederzeit jeder aus dem Ausland reinkommen kann und nach einiger Zeit er oder seine Nachkommen Teil des Staatsvolks, das Träger der Demokratie ist, wird?

Leute nicht rauszulassen, ist kein Ausdruck von Souveränität, sondern Freiheitsentzug - die DDR war im Wesentlichen ein großes Gefängnis.

Das sieht auch die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte so (Artikel 13):

Jeder hat das Recht, jedes Land, einschließlich seines eigenen, zu verlassen und in sein Land zurückzukehren.

Das etabliert ein Recht auf Auswanderung, aber nicht auf Einwanderung.

Do LLMs do that? That sounds more like dictionary use without thinking.

I remember not long ago seeing an image of handwritten homework where the student answered “as a large language model …”.

In Japan bspw funktioniert das sehr gut.

In Italien und den Niederlanden auch, deshalb ist es trotzdem radikal unpraktisch und ich hoffe, dass es nirgendwo kommt.

Wir im deutschsprachigen Raum sind doch der US-Kultur durch Massenmedien so sehr ausgesetzt, dass viele von uns wohl denken, dass wir eh genug darüber wissen. Ich hätte es, bevor ich in den letzten Monaten im Internet davon gelesen habe, auch nicht sicher gewusst, allerdings interessiere ich mich auch relativ wenig für Sport und somit auch nicht dafür, wie man in verschiedenen Ländern zu Stadien anreisen kann.

Ich kann auf die Seite zugreifen, hatte aber beim ersten Klick Darstellungsprobleme, nach einem Hard Refresh sieht es wieder normal aus.

Der Postillon hatte folgendes dazu zu sagen: https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/06/wm-pausen.html

If I delete this post, will it be completely removed across all instances that synchronized it?

It will send out a message to relevant servers that it should be deleted. There is no guarantee that they will comply with that message. If your post has been copied to hundreds or thousands of other servers, there is no guarantee that they will all receive or understand that message. Some may even be actively malicious, for example because they are controlled by exactly the people you want to hide from!

I remember once deleting a comment (on this account) a few seconds after posting it. After that, I kept getting upvotes for it! I found out that that was happening because one very popular instance had for some reason not deleted the comment, so its users had no idea that it was supposed to be gone.

Is a deleted post traceable in any way?

Everything on the public Internet is. Anyone can set up a bot that just scrapes and archives everything on the Internet that it can find; and governments certainly have the resources to do so!

Is it kept in a log or a database on ferdiverse instances?

Potentially.

With governments across the globe increasingly surveiling us online and scrutinizing everything we say, I’m starting to think I should plainly delete any account that has personally identifiable information like my real name and photo. I initially thought it would be easier to connect with family and friends, but now I’m growing increasingly worried about how this can be used against me.

Posting things on the public Internet, especially under one’s real name, inherently comes with that risk. Always has.

I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.

But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(