Search engines are easy to detect and filter out though, they have very distinct UA strings.

So that would mean it should be counted the same as a visit from a regular user, no? Unless YT specifically tries to detect and filter out NP visits.

In theory they could. Every city or state that migrates increases the market for open source solutions, and many also invest in the creation of custom software that others can later use when they migrate. The problem imo is hitting a critical mass, and also overcoming lobbyism at the highest levels.

I’d say it’s one of the better ones! They have fully narrated tutorials, the UI is nice and clean, and you don’t really have to care about advanced mechanics until you take on the higher difficulties. For the start you can pretty much just build up your city, recruit unit, and just roam around and explore.

That’s not how non-profit foundations work.

An app to manage important config and unit files (fstab, hosts, sysctl, systemd units, …), and present them as settings menu or editor with auto completion and tooltips. Kinda like how VSCode handles settings, where you can use the GUI or a context-aware text editor.

Starting your own instance doesn’t solve the problem of big communities being reliant on the one specific instance they are hosted on to not go down or rogue.

I imagine it like friend requests between communities. E.g. [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] could send each other friend requests and merge into one federated meta-community about x. Then if one instance goes down the other two are still there to keep the meta-community alive.

The nice thing about manual federation is that they don’t have to have exactly the same name, and the mods can keep malicious or troll communities out.

Most point and click adventures take about 6-10 hours in my experience. My favorites are the Monkey Island and Deponia games.

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