I kind of have tried that twice, failing both times. Firstly, I like paying in cash and it's too much work to change money to Francs and back. Secondly the prices are high enough that both time's I've stocked up before entering Switzerland and made sure that I'm on the other side of the country when it's time to sleep in a paid hotel room.
Let's explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.
And Google has done the same, from scratch.
Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.
The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.
They are the same thing. They also don't have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.
It doesn't really work very well as that. It's buggy and it's difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.
This does mean you'll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.
The only surveillance system they might have for this is a police car randomly seeing you fueling up in two places during the same time. There won't be any automatic number plate scanning or anything. Just regular human people using their eyes.
And then of course, to the other question: I'm from Finland. My PPP increases a lot when I go to Germany. I get a higher amount of Euros as salary, but I can buy much less with my Finnish salary in Finland than I could buy with a lower German salary in Germany. And then when I use my Finnish salary in Germany... Woooo! :)
And when I go to some country in what used to be called "eastern block" in the past, then yes: I can indeed buy a lot more than I can buy in what used to be called "the west" some twenty-thirty years ago. But that's the same in Hungary and in Slovakia, as both countries have been mismanaged in a similar manner. Whether Hungary has Euro or not, doesn't really affect this much at all.
How many units of money you get for one euro tells nothing about how weak or strong a currency is.When Latvia still had its own currency, the Lat, one euro was actually worth something like 4,20 Lat.
Or measued in English pounds:One Latvian Lat was about 1,20 £. Does that mean that Latvia was/is richer than UK?
Nope. The numbers in a currency are nothing but a number. They can be high or they can be low. Just like 20 degrees Celcius is not richer or poorer than 68 Fahrenheit. It's just a different unit that has different numbers for the same thing.
But then: In 2004 I remember one Euro was about 250 Hungarian Forint. And now it's almost 400. The face value of the numbers doesn't mean anything, but the changes in exchange rate do. Your one million Forint in your bank account are a very different amount of Euros now than they were before Orbán fucked up the country's economy starting in 2012 or 2013 or whenever he began his reign.
At the same time: If the Euro was worth, say 110 Forints, that would actually mean that the Hungarian currency is strong, because it would be twice as strong as it was earlier. But now it's about half as strong as it used to be.
And the answer to the question "why" is indeed Orbán. He has transformed the country into a Russian-style pyramid scheme where the main point of the economy is to provide profit for the leader. And then maybe it will also produce something to the country's population as a side effect. Or maybe not.
This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. fediverselemmy.world is not a username, it's actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called "Fediverse" on a server called "lemmy.world". On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.
I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!
But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you're complaining about :)
make using public transportation more feasible and more comfortable than it is now
maximize the walkability of people's everyday environments
the part of private car usage that is not necessary should be heavily taxed
enable people to commute by bicycle in a way that is actually comfortable
make sure villages', towns', and cities' development is done in a way that supports building good public transportation (especially: don't build cul-de-sack neighbourhoods)
the part of car usage that is necessitated should happen with electric vehicles
These are measures that are being taken in various other cities around the planet. The Netherlands started doing moat of these in the 1970's and is now a tourist destination because of that. People really like the urban environment that has produced.
I understood this as meaning that the file format must be supported by all government institutions. And it probably is supported. Up to a point. Because Microslop has a very bad-quality odf support in Word. Meaning: The support exists. It might not be able to read or save simple odf files that could be opened with anything else than Word, but the support exists all the same. Law fulfilled, all is good!
Lemmy is software. PieFed is software. And they have the same content. Okay, people hate the email comparison, but I'm gonna make one anyway :)
So: Google has programmed a web service that receives and sends so called emails for its users. And then another company, called Microsoft, has programmed another web service, that receives and sends those emails as well. "Email" is not a product of either Google or Microsoft. Email is not even software. Email is kind of... Nothing. It's just a protocol. Email as a concept is just the data that travels between various email servers. Email is nothing more than an agreed-upon standard that various web servers programmed by a lot of different teams are all able to interpret more or less in the same manner.The word for that is protocol. Email is not a program programmed by either Google or Microsoft. Email is a protocol.
And the same goes with this thing called ActivityPub. PieFed is one server software, programmed by a certain Rimu.
...written by a Marxist-Maoist person who likes supporting various genocides because authoritarianism is awesomeness or something.
And then there's also MBin. And bunch of other similar server softwares. This conversation we are now having is being relayed to the world by a server in the address http://piefed.social/. It basically shouts out all the activity that takes place under this post to whatever server cares to listen. And then the other server can replicate the content.The "shouting out all activity" is done using a protocol called ActivityPub.
So, here's this very conversation you are reading, seen from:
As you can see, each of the links points to a different server. But it's still the precisely same content.
When it comes to moderation: The admin on anarchist.nexus can only moderate stuff that is either:
published by users of that server
published in communities hosted on that server
plus: if the owner of some community has appointed them as a moderator on that specific community, then also there.
If a user from lemmy.ml is being an ass on a community hosted on kbin.melroy.org, the admin of anarchist.nexus cannot really do much anything at all about them. However, they can completely severe the connection to either of those two servers. That is called defederation. For example, many servers have indeed defederated from lemmy.ml, because the admins of that server allow their users to behave like asses towards people living under occupations by authoritarian colonial empires. And either you basically give those people free reign, or you severe the connection to the offending server. Users of servers that have defederated lemmy.ml have a much better experience, because they miss most of the tankie content. And people who are not pro-authoritarianism don't really have any reason to stay on that server, so they tend to migrate to something that is okay with the concept of human rights.
For example piefed.social has defederated from lemmy.ml (EDIT: correction, no, it hasn't But it has defederated from two instances that are even worse). That means, you are very unlikely to see tankie shit in the comments of this post. Anything coming from communities hosted on piefed.social (such as this one is!) or from users on piefed.social is invisible for users of lemmy.ml. And the other way around.
It's a very interesting way to do moderation: You either moderate your server's users in a sensible way, or your server gets cut off by other servers.Defederations are done on a per-server basis. That means, comment chains can look very different depending on where you're reading it from. Piefed.zip does federate with lemmy.ml, so a community running on piefed.zip is able to have comments from users of lemmy.ml. But a user of piefed.social will not see the comments made by users of lemmy.ml – nor any replies to them! That's why many people don't like to reply to users from lemmy.ml: A lot of people will be unable to see your reply! If you want to say something to a user on lemmy.ml, better write a top-level comment and tag them. Of course, any replies to their comment is invisible for a huge share of Fediverse readers.
Hab in nem jewissn deutschen Bundeshohptstadt ehnige Jährchen jewohnt, janz im Osten dessen.
"Essieben na Hohptnohf, zobite!"
Det kan man wohl nua liebn!
Oßadem: wenn ick dieset Dings "spreche" werde ick öfters jfracht ob ick ohs Öhsterrroisch komme oder der Schweiz, da wa mit finnischm Akzent bahliniat, wird anscheinend zum Ledahosnträjer. Dat ick meene letzen 6 Monate dort damals für ne Firma ohs Linz jearbeitet hab, hat ooch sehnen Effekt jehabt.
No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)
Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.
Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.
I kind of have tried that twice, failing both times. Firstly, I like paying in cash and it's too much work to change money to Francs and back. Secondly the prices are high enough that both time's I've stocked up before entering Switzerland and made sure that I'm on the other side of the country when it's time to sleep in a paid hotel room.