It's confusing because there aren't enough labels, right?

They should just copy the Plasma System Settings app.

As opposed to news from the united states, which is certified good and true and democratic

It is.

The people in charge of maintaining Mastodon in particular though need to establish some kind of legal entity and that needs legal recognition somewhere.

Elon Musk is a brilliant inventor nonpareil. He invented tunnels, rockets, electric cars, and now Twitter.

Isn't following the local law the end user's responsibility? Like how in the US it's not lawful for me to install and use certain patented codecs without buying a license. (We all do, anyway.) Would it be "illegal software" or would it just make it easier for the end user to violate the law?

I also think means-testing serves mostly to create resentment instead of a society that we are all bought into and able to reap the benefits of.

The problem, as I'm sure you know, is that a home server is not fit for purpose for the vast majority of people. Managing that is a fun project for some, but a complete non starter for most.

Absolutely nothing about this guy requires Russia to explain.

It doesn't matter where the bedbugs came from, they are everywhere. Paris is an international destination; this is entirely Paris's failure to manage it a problem that comes inevitably with that status.

I don't think so. Enforcing two-factor auth to be allowed to do certain things with an account just makes sense. It's definitely not an attempt to squeeze profit out of users per se, but rather an attempt to limit liability and the risk of costly support problems caused by passwords being compromised.

In my case, the major upside is that I make federation choices, not someone else. I prefer to be as openly federated as possible.