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Nah this entire thread is a perfect illustration why US First Amendment standards for free speech are (roughly) good and should be adopted in all countries. This is where it ends when you start to think it's ok to criminalize "hate speech" or "terrorist propaganda" or "approval of criminal acts".

What data?

It's possible there's something in the firmware or BIOS that transmits some things to Apple; I do not know for sure, but maybe someone else will show up here who knows details about this. Even if that is so, Apple gets significantly less data because anything built into macOS won't be running.

Are you sure you will be allowed to drive a manual car in Romania with your American license if you didn't take the test with a manual car? I live in a different European country and here if you take the test with an automatic car, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. You should research this.

It's definitely different from an automatic car and requires more concentration. Once you get used to it, it's not difficult. I was older than you are now when I learned to drive at all (which I did on a manual car) and managed it anyway.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

if you can post text, you can post base64-encoded data, incl. images

https://xkcd.com/1381/

Legal questions can't be meaningfully answered without a location. But there are many places where there are laws against that and this can be a crime.

IMHO messages from things you've signed up to are unlikely to be "spam". I've always understood that word to mainly mean completely unsolicited messages from people you have no previous relationship with at all; though if it's clearly unwanted it might include some of the former too.

I suspect you already know about Meads v Meads. Paragraph 73 of that provides some clues:

All this is a consequence of the fact gurus proclaim they know secret principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on the state, courts, and individuals.

Many people like the thought that they know something no one else knows or that at least most people don't know. Including things about the law.

that may in part be out of consideration to others, most others don't want to see that... so maybe a bad example...

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

How old is "old" for this purpose?

It would be possible to set up an instance where users could post as guests, ie everyone who did that would appear as the same user, something like anon@lemmychan.social.

It is also likely that such accounts would soon be banned in many places because people will use them to post unwanted posts and comments.

"Mastodon" is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?

If you click around a bit more in that documentation, you can see that that isn't an enumeration of genders, it's an interface for answering the question which gender any given name belongs to. (For example, "Andrea" is understood as exclusively feminine for German speakers, but it's a common male last name in Italy.)

And originally it was "general image manipulation program".

A long time ago I did some things with https://revealjs.com/ but not sure how viable that is.

In principle the main thing you'd need to have is a way for people to post anonymously. This could be implemented by having all posts and comments appear as sent by anonymous@instancename.tld or similar.

The rest is just a different (flat) interface for "group federation" and possibly a requirement to attach images to new posts. In principle this could interface with existing federated groups just fine I think, only it's likely a lot of communities and instances would ban that "anonymous" user very soon.

It's not an exam, it's a discussion among professionals in the field.

I've been calling it threadiverse because that is what I saw most other people call it.

Really all it is is "ActivityPub groups" or if that is too technical, "fediverse groups".