Just a refugee
If you’re referring to the city in English you would say “bo-LO-nya” to approximate the original. I’ve heard it on the radio/podcasts before. It’s not very commonly referenced so trying to get closer to the original is probably right. Unlike Paris, where you are seen as pretentious if you pronounce it the French way.
Mander is generally a science-focused instance, so there are a lot of sciency /c’s there
There are so many communities being heroically held aloft by 1 or 2 serial posters. My favorite is !quackers@lemmy.world
Here’s an NPR article I found on one of the major opposition parties that is succeeding this year.
… ‘its charismatic, Harvard University-educated candidate for prime minister told NPR: “Demilitarize, demonopolize and decentralize — that’s how you democratize Thailand. That’s the endgame,”’ … … In the past two decades, [the establishment] has staged two coups while Thailand’s courts have brought down three opposition prime ministers and dissolved several opposition parties. … “You have to imagine a lot of Thais, powerful Thais, elites, they have a lot of stakes in the system that were set up over the last seven decades … they bought into the system. And Move Forward is a direct challenge.”
Yes, this is true for subscribers. There are websites you can find that will show you total subscribers for a community if you are curious.
I’m pretty sure this can’t be true for upvotes though. I regularly see posts that have more upvotes than there are accounts on my local instance.
The only reason I ask is because I’ve noticed the subscriber counts on some communities seem very low vs. the amount of engagement.
This could also happen because a lot of people are browsing All, and not subscribing.
Hey, that’s a really cool tool! Thanks for creating and sharing it!
I am now cursed with this knowledge.
I also use Startpage and have been happy with it. It uses Google’s search engine as the backend but cuts out the tracking and personalized ads so I feel like it is the best of both worlds.
It’s the USA; Northern Virginia, capital region.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area
Yeah this same thing happened to me. I rarely get messages in signal anymore and can’t reliably know who still has it installed. It’s great for folks you are in regular communication with though.
You are probably lucky, for now. I’m pretty sure they are rolling it out in waves. Boiling the frog and all that.