Because the uk government conceded that there is no current technology to scan communications without compromising encryption. And have relinquished forcing companies from adding backdoors "for now" without actually removing this provision for the law. Meaning they are leaving it to the regulator "ofcom" or future governments to decide when to request compromising encryption
and that's why even Signal and WhatsApp who threatened pulling out of the UK, haven't issued any recent statement after the adoption of this law
Canada is huge . and their cities are mainly built on flat ground hence the spaciousness. Add to that the dependency on cars. And you get huge swaths of unwalkable cities.
When it comes to the absence of corner shops. Its mainly due to strict urban zoning. Where they don't mix commercial and residential activities
It would be naive to expect Google to be broken by anti-trust laws, just look how microsoft dodged that in the 2000 and went back to the same practices today . this is a circus show
It is to be expected. most people who migrated early on did it as an act of boycott, and not because they needed an alternative to reddit. so when the boycott failed, the natural thing for them was to go back to the plateform with the bigger userbase.
I understand that admins need to take whatever measures needed to protect themselves from legal pursuits
At the same time I hate to see the promised federated network revert to what commercial platforms have become, karma and account age requirement, phone and identity verification , forced 2fa and what not.
Maybe lemmy should implement a shared database whereas if an admin of an instance marks a post as potentially illegal, it gets replicated to other instances automatically and gets in queu for deletion.
WHY isn't their email client on f-droid ? isn't it opensource ?