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I must also say I dislike the obnoxious "Look at how quirky I am!" 90s web badges on an HTML5 page.
Starlink is his property, he doesn't need to be head of state to suspend a free service and that's how it should be.
Have you considered that it might not be worth it using social media at all?
I look forward for this to be taken to the logical extreme when a niche subculture of internet nerds change their entire online persona to revolve around scat pornography to spite "the normals", I'm sure they'll be remembered fondly as witty and intelligent and not at all as mentally ill young people.
Especially because (from my observation) modern "nerds" who enjoy anime seem to relish at bringing it (and various sex-related things) up at inappropriate times and are generally emotionally immature.
It's quite refreshing seeing that other people have similar lines of thinking and that I'm not alone in feeling somewhat alienated.
Reddit implemented something a while back that says "You've been blocked by network security!" with a big smiling Reddit snoo front and centre on the page and every time I bump into it I can't help but think this.
I'm sure the software behind it is fine but the imagery and style of it (and the confidence to feature it) makes me doubt the mental credibility/social maturity of anybody willing to make it the first thing you see when accessing a webpage.
Edit: From a quick check of the "CEO" of the company, I was unsurprised to have my concerns confirmed. I may be behind the times but I think there are far too many people in who act obnoxiously (as part of what can only be described as a new subculture) in open source software today and I wish there were better terms to describe it.
You don't need one. You can either use RDP to a Windows Server running on a lightweight Mini PC (like I do) or use VMWare Fusion in unified mode to have a modern Chrome version seamlessly integrated into your desktop experience.
The difference is that Hacker News is a website and you can visit another to say rude things if you want with ease, not a country with subjects/citizens.