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German “Catastrophe” is “Katastrophe”. “Katzastrophe” is “Katze”+“Katastrophe”, which in english would be “cat” + “catastrophe”… oh.

I don’t have a script to automatically subscribe to a list of communities on a new account yet, that’s a bit more difficult…

Because lemmygrad is pretty huge and other instances don’t want their new users to be met with a flood of tankie content, most instances are blocking lemmygrad.

It could happen if there was a very popular instance that didn’t federate with others.

Lemmygrad is blocked from federating with most other instances but still is a pretty large instance. Though that instance in particular is not very likely to look towards IPO.

Brilliant Pebbles. A space-based ICBM interceptor program from the 80s.

The one part of Reagan’s Star Wars that would totally have worked if they’d deployed it, but the Soviet Union didn’t last long enough…

If per-user instance filters are implemented, perhaps instances could have “default blacklists” for new users for stuff like exploding-heads or lemmygrad that most people don’t want to see, with the option to manually un-block them if someone does want to see that.

If someone wants karma they could host a modified instance where every post gets thousands of upvotes for free. Other instances can’t really verify whether that’s accurate.

The mine went bankrupt in '89, just a few years after Errol bought shares in it. The boss was someone else.

Mines can absolutely become suddenly unprofitable. You don’t know how much good stuff is in the ground until you dig it up.