It’s like with Linux, just get new friends.

Addiction … you can get that with any kind of social media. The Fediverse is no exception.

Easiest way is probably to find the Fediverse services that are most interesting to them, show them and explain how the Fediverse works. But even within the Fediverse many services don’t communicate much with each other. I know bunch of people IRL who are on Mastodon, but I don’t think I know anybody on Lemmy … at least not in the communities I interact most with.

Tbh for me it was more outrageous how it interferes with moderation. There are admins from big instances who weren’t blocked themself and mods from big active communities on that list. If they write warning comments, users of this frontend will simply not see them

And tho user and comment regex is a mess, partially containing very random things. Lot’s of possible wrong matches. This whole thing is from no viewpoint a good idea

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141

It’s linked on that Wikipedia article. It’s very useful to connect data independent of language. OSM can use it to connect places to more data. I think searxng uses it to generate infoboxes

It’s enough to automatically extract coordinates and compare that to your location. For an area comparation it is connected to the OSM relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4246124 among other things. Getting actual areas is pretty hard due to heterogene data

Q3141 is actually enough to know what it is

Each item is allocated a unique persistent identifier called its QID, a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter “Q”

Ever heard of wikidata?