Left-wing does not necessarily imply a centralized or planned economy.

Mit Easterhegg und Gulaschorogrammiernacht gibt es sowas ja schon. Das Problem ist eher, das alles organisiert zu bekommen.

Tor is an application and technically doesn't even has much to do with Linux itself, except that it also runs on it. Where you using a guide for installing and if so which one?

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate, and Twitter obviously

Very insightful look into the mechanisms of minimalist design and their shortcomings.

Minimalism as a design trend dates back to the beginning of the last century, but you might have noticed that companies have extensively used minimalist principles in their product design in the past few years. Apple is especially known for this, but you see it everywhere nowadays. Cars, fridges, TVs... they are all stripped of any extravagant design features: fewer buttons, no ornaments, single colors, and so on. Even if you are not designer, you have probably noticed that in some way.

No, it's probably refering to what happened after his death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini#Piazzale_Loreto

Matrix is also decentralized/federated, has encryption integrated into the protocol and enjoys a broad adoption and public support. It also has pretty good integration of bots and even other message protocol services like IRC via "bridges". The chat clients are pretty good too; Element is pretty much available for every platform but there's other one's which are more focussed on Desktop or mobile usage, depending on how you primarily use it.

Both have their own instances: https://social.bund.de and https://social.network.europa.eu

https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-support-general:discuss.online

I'm pretty sure there is no particular reason why it's done this way. It's just the easiest method to coomunicate upvotes across different servers. There are already a lot of ideas for doing it differently or more efficient (e.g. vote aggregation) but that requires a more sophisticated architecture:

• Vote aggregation also makes faking votes much more efficient and requires different detection methods. Of course, a spam server can also invent users or votes but it's a bit more complicated.
• Aggregation in any form can be hard to implement because it should be flexible enough to reduce load but not increase delay or make tracking a consistent state even harder. Finding the right configuration will be difficult and go through a lot of trial and error. Should be easier though now that more people are working on the code.
• Keep in mind that Lemmy should also be able to communicate with other services across the Fediverse like Mastodon via ActivityPub. I'm not sure if there is something in the standard for message aggregation yet. It's definitely being discussed because Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube all have or went thorugh the same growth problems as Lemmy in terms of scaling, spam and security concerns. If there's a good solution it will likely come through the AP standard.

Wait until you learn that PDFs support embedded Javascript.

Github is the right place s most of the development is discussed in the issues and PRs there. There's also the Matrix space https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org which has various chat rooms regarding Lemmy/Jerboa development.

Also you're... me? :D At least our taste in usernames is very similar.