Censorship

When I recently decided to sign up to Friendica, I picked a German pod because I thought that Germany (federal and state levels) seemed to be a strong backer of free software and highly resistant to malware such as so many unthinkingly or corruptly install. (e.g. my local library and schools run Windows, misleading so many people to imagine that this the natural form of the computer phenomenon, like capitalism is the natural forms of social relations of production. Rather than the social injury that they both represent.

How astonishing to find, only a fortnight later, that Europe has decided to destroy all that. I never imagined that Germany would allow this. However, I tend to forget that Germany is still, to a measure, under occupation since 1945, and this is perhaps a factor in the acquiescence to so many of the measures that the Empire has ordered with, I have no doubt, secondary if not primary purpose of damaging Europe. Destruction of Libya, disruption of Syria, both causing the European crisis, Ukrainian coup and illegal aggression against Russia, all damaging European economies, probably more than Russia's. Continuing aggression against Iran, attempting at least to disrupt another European trade relationship.

Now, moments after public statements that the US was acting against Europe and that Europe needed to reassess their global relationships, they carry out this act of grovelling self harm.

It seems even more stupid than my own (Australian) government which is even more slavish to the Empire, including support for US aggression against China, when our interests lie in close ties with China.

I linked my new Friendica account with my Diaspora account. After a while, I started to wonder if this was not such a good idea. I'm still not sure, and I broke the link, but then decided to keep it for the moment. However, depending whether I manage to get a secure login here and depending on the consequences of article 13, I may abandon this account.

#tags

#Help says

Topical tags are indicated by preceding the tag name with the # character. This will create a link in the post to a generalised site search for the term provided.

This implies that tags have no useful function, as the term provided would be found regardless of the # character. I experimented with search for history and for #history, and the results seemed to be the same, moreover, I eventually noticed that the results were headed "Items tagged with: history". My impression is that this heading was correct, and the search finds tagged posts, rather than all posts with the term provided. However, it would require more elaborate experiment to be sure.

There's also the results are different from one network to another. Is the handling of hashtags variable?