It’s where the name comes from, yes. Ian and his then girlfriend Deborah.

I knew neither.

They took away functionality and locked it behind a subscription. How is that not enshittification?

I was providing data. Now I’m not.

Good app, but it doesn’t have live traffic data I’m afraid.

They’re chasing me away. I’m not interested in paying but I was willing to contribute data in exchange for using it. That’s the deal most people have with Google anyway.

Where are these open borders you speak of?

In the EU. You’re free to move to any member country to live and work there.

Then we had brexit, and as huge part of that was the “freedom of movement” in the EU. The British didn’t like “Polish plumbers” coming to the UK.

I think that’s just the nature of the fediverse. But yeah, I’d prefer a built in search that would search through most/all instances. Not sure how that’d work though.

Sepia is the best I’ve found so far.

I usually use https://sepiasearch.org/ to find things. It’s not prefect but it’s the best I’ve found. I agree that it’s hard to find good content.

You can see some stats here.

For maps I’d also like to add Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Magic Earth.

Use Magic Earth or Organic Maps instead of Google Maps too. Neither will track you.

I don’t change the headline generally, but I also didn’t catch that it wasn’t “the real” matrix.

Dropping SepiaSearch here as well. Peertube search.

https://sepiasearch.org/

Is that the new thing?

Yeah, all EFTA members have veto rights towards new members, and you’re pretty much correct but it’s even worse. The UK economy is bigger than all other EFTA countries combined. There’s no way they’d let the UK in.

Norway is a rule taker that pays into the EU without any influence. They’re also tiny and they know it. This is said with love from a neighbour who would love to see Norway join the EU.

I don’t think the UKs collective ego would allow them to join on Norway terms.

This community is the biggest one by far. Shutting this would be bad IMHO. Is there a way to move it to another instance?

I do. That’s the correct name/spelling in Swedish.

Hate to be the one to break these news to you, but the UK is no longer an EU member state.

Who are “we” in this context?

I’m saddened by the result. I wonder what the cause is for this.