We are absolutely living through the biggest geopolitical realignment since WW2.

I'm sure Europeans are absolutely thrilled to be paying a huge markup on the oil they used to get directly from Russia.

I don't think TSMC has much interest in building fabs in US because it's one card they hold over the US at the moment.

And he continues to be worshipped all around the western world today.

The principle of being racist scumbags?

The only one transmitting copium here is the one who's making stuff up to avoid admitting the facts the article reports. Please stop projecting.

Indeed, this blows apart any notion that the west could hold China back technologically.

absolutely incredible stuff

Exact same energy.

I notice you haven't answered my question there. The title RAND gave it is "An Unwinnable War, Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine". So, you tell me why US needs an endgame in Ukraine if the proxy war is going as planned.

US bringing color revolutions to destabilize countries via its CIA affiliated agencies like NED, what part of that was unclear?

I've been using Mastodon for a couple of years now and it's become significantly more active in that time from what I see anecdotally. That said, I'd say the key question for health is whether the community is big enough to support ongoing development and hosting. I think at this point the answer to both questions is a definite yes. There are millions of users in the Fediverse now, plenty of users are technical and are actively contributing.

I think we'll see active users fluctuate over time, but I don't see the core base of users abandoning Fediverse at this point because they've already established their social networks here.