These seem fair ideas? They're not paywalling critical functionality and you can't run a massive social network for free. It's not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it's hardly outrageous.
Chill. The graphic wasn't made for this specific discussion. It's a widely accepted way to group users of a service. In this case, the bell curve represents the adoption of something other than Twitter by Twitter users, and the driver isn't "new thing to try" (in as much as neither federated or newer centralized microblogging platforms have much new to offer), it's the slowly-heating pot of water that the frog is in.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but Royal Mail was privatised a decade ago. It was floated on the stock market back in late 2013 (for around £2b, and despite objections from 96% of staff), and the government let go of their 30% stake in 2015. Křetínský was a big shareholder even then.
WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.
That's definitely not Comic Sans. It's similar -- you can compare the screenshots in the image -- but I'm guessing it's a licensing or cross-platform thing and they're using a Google webfont?
I'm going to assume you're being wilfully ignorant but not trying to be an ass. "Gay" is more often used of men than women, and it's perhaps more common for people to use "lesbian" for gay women, but it just means homosexual (or sometimes more generally not heterosexual), regardless of sex or gender.
Cambridge: "sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same gender or sex"
Merriam-Webster: "of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one's same sex"
Oxford: "sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex"
Brittanica: "sexually or romantically attracted to someone who is the same sex"
Wiktionary: "Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself."
It’s looking more and more like the universal expansion was different when it was young than it is now. When it was young it was denser, galaxies were closer together, and conditions were just different. We know that dark energy plays a huge role here, causing the expansion to speed up, but how it does that isn’t clear.
Dinosaurs really had the jump on mammals in terms of time to evolve flying ability, but I've got faith more mammals can go that way.
Of all of the alien fauna I saw in Australia, seeing fruit bats fly over at dusk was the most memorable. (Finding engorged leeches between my toes was the second, and the emotion was quite different.)
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These seem fair ideas? They're not paywalling critical functionality and you can't run a massive social network for free. It's not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it's hardly outrageous.