Thanks, that helps. I’m a perfectionist, so I’m discouraged for not knowing how to use the more advanced tools and instead do nothing because I haven’t taken the time to learn. I can definitely add missing places easily.

I’m not a smart ape. Is simple contribution through tools like Organic Maps helpful to OSM? My impression has been that contribution with good quality is complicated with the one OSM tool that I tried.

Could it depend on your client? Mine actually removes them from view, but it’s worth remembering that for administrative and practical reasons, comments are not necessarily deleted but just marked deleted on the servers.

You’ll have to wait months to see a doctor!

My man, I live in a capitalist hellscape. That’s explicitly the reason why it takes forever to see a doctor. Care is secondary to extortion of maximum profit.

I came here looking for Esperanto and was not disappointed.

What a shame. It’s probably my favorite tool on the platform.

It is (under targeted surveillance) and it isn’t (practical at scale). My wife works at a post office and they do occasionally comply with law enforcement’s lawful requests to monitor or search the contents of a person’s mail, but it’s quite rare. It’s manual work that takes time and effort per-package, risks detection, and typically requires a warrant. It’s just not cost effective compared to automated electronic methods unless you’ve really fucked up and they’re already onto you.

All refers to everything that your instance knows about. Your instance only retrieves data for which users are actually subscribed.

All can be weird on small instances if the user subscriptions don’t have a nice distribution.

This is a good point for not choosing too small. I’ve made a couple of accounts, and it looks like when a servers crosses that 1,000 or 2,000 user mark you start getting much better consistency than the micro instances with only a few hundred users.

I usually find that I have to reload a few times if I’m the first person to try to subscribe to a community. That happens uncomfortably too often if the instance is small. Even then, it can take a days or possibly never to properly federate.

I’m sure these issues will be fixed, but for now, I’d like myself a small instance but not too small so as to avoid issues with consistency.

Eczema, where your typical lotion just won’t cut it.

Perhaps the replacement battery was manufactured a while ago?