To enjoy yourselves doesn’t require that you all buy the latest gaming rig or even something new or identical. As long as what you decide on has games in common, you’re good.

I’m beginning to suspect that the recent election results can be explained by one word: Entropy

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I am not privy to your financial situation, but can you three pool your resources and find a common platform?

I can’t ever see this happening.

The thing that gets me about healthcare is that we seemingly continue to train specialists who focus all their attention on one single aspect of the human body to the exclusion of everything else, even though the more we learn about how it works, the more interconnected it all appears.

This saying comes to mind: “If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

I’m not eligible to vote in your country. In mine, voting is mandatory and there are no stickers, just democracy sausages to aid in the funding for local polling places like schools and community halls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.

That’s like asking for an elephant stamp for wiping your butt after going to the toilet.

Voting isn’t an accomplishment, it’s your duty and the reward is the society you live in.

It appears that the OP is incapable of discovering Adobe Acrobat.

That was very helpful and interesting. Thank you for taking the time to explain.