Both words can have more than one meaning.

Socialism may be among other things:

• an economic system where the “means of production” are owned by the workers (Marxist theory as I understand it)
• the economic and political system that was implemented in the Soviet Union and its allies (they described it as socialism)
• social democracy, ie government regulations of the free market in order to make it more socially just

Communism, in Marxist theory, is a future stateless moneyless classless society which Marxists claim will inevitably happen after socialism. (Nonsense, but that’s the theory.) But a lot of times the word is used, it just means the second point from above, ie the way the Soviet Union and its allies were ruled. That’s mainly because a lot of ruling parties in those countries called and still call themselves the Communist Party of (country), though others didn’t, eg the East German ruling party was called the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Or that Hitler was a Marxist?

Hitler described himself as a socialist, but certainly not Marxist.

You seem to be confused what the word “instance” means in a fediverse context. The answer to your question, as asked, is “no, the question doesn’t even make sense”.

Lemmy and Mbin are two different backends that talk in the same language (“protocol”), ActivityPub, to each other. The entire idea of that common language is that you should be able to use either of them and also communicate with people using the other.

Legal questions cannot be answered without information which jurisdiction you want to know this about.

The article is from 2015, so without defending mass surveillance: is there nothing more recent? It’s possible they did that in the 11 years since then after all.

If I recall, I asked Gemini to generate an image of a kitten wrapped in a blanket.

It initially gave me a photorealistic image, then I asked it to turn that into a drawn image with the background removed, and that gave me what I have now (though I think I cleaned up some stray pixels in the background).

This is common when comparing acronyms of Germanic vs. Romance languages because the former tend to put adjectives in front of their noun, the latter after it. But acronyms aren’t really words.

Even both singular masculine. In Italian, “le” exists too but that is feminine plural. This is the only real example so far posted here.

If we count romanizations of languages not normally written with the Latin alphabet, I think definite articles give us another one: “la” in French, Spanish, Italian, and Esperanto is a definite article, and if I’m not mistaken, “al” is one in Arabic.

I used it for generating my profile picture here on Lemmy and don’t see anything wrong with that.

Nope, not mocking you.

I see the word time a lot of times here too.

You seem confused about a few things:

• people from everywhere in the world can register on most websites including lemmy.world, doesn’t matter where they are hosted
• people from other instances, who likewise may be everywhere in the world, can interact with your posts and comments too

FWIW https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/ claims that instance operates according to Dutch, Finnish and German law.

I live in a country that lowered the voting age to 16 in the 2000s, so I voted in my first election at the age of 16.

I don’t think it changed very much at all, 16- and 17-year-olds aren’t big enough of a demographic or vote in radically different ways from people slightly older than that.

No, they are not, stop posting talking points that justify authoritarian government policies, those aren’t showerthoughts.

Nowadays compared to when?

https://xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…

The Democratic Party is the older one of the two. My understanding is they called themselves that because they saw themselves as the party representing the popular will.

Why the Republicans called themselves that, not sure. They were mainly founded over opposition to slavery, not really described by the name at all.

No. The Democratic Party does descend directly from them, but the Republican Party was founded much later independently.

Before smartphones, the Internet was a self-selecting space because the only people regularly posting on it were the kinds of people who consciously chose it as a hobby.

Now that anyone can access it anywhere they go and it’s easy enough for people with zero technical capabilities, it reflects society as a whole a lot more.

I find that sad because I was one of the people who self-selected into it before smartphones. I always hoped that if more people were using the Internet, society would become more similar to (my experiences on) the Internet, and not (as actually turned out) the other way round.

You’re talking about two different "OP"s.

The OP of this post isn’t banned on lemmy.ml, but the OP of the post that this thread is about (i.e. that can’t be seen there) is: https://lemmy.ml/u/breadsmasher@lemmy.world

Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.