Yes, I think so but only indirectly. Distinguishing between the “same” community on different instances or rather identifying the more active one is already pretty hard, the only thing one can really go by is the number of users who have joined. The large number of abandoned copycat communities on 3+ servers doesn’t make this easier since a lot of these have a bunch of users but are dead.

A technical solution could be some kind of “hotness” score for instances to identify the interesting/active ones.

Thank you for reading the source, the amount of FUD in this thread is crazy.

I happened upon two of these in much the same way, one of them unfortunately doesn’t work but the other one has been my home office keyboard (too loud for the office) for many years. I’ve always wanted to fix the broken one by swapping in a modern controller, maybe even make it wireless (because that would be truly absurd).

Ah, historical favorite

IIRC, this “accident” is simply because chocolate producers figured out it’s cheaper to make the milk slightly taste like vomit (something the Americans apparently didn’t mind too much) than cooling it properly. I think nowadays that wouldn’t really fly but back then cheaper chocolate was maybe so desirable that consumers didn’t mind the weird taste.

I don’t think so: Stack Overflow requires much more moderation for the comments and answers to actually stay on topic and be somewhat professional. Especially the “don’t just link somewhere, explain the thing” rule might require a lot of moderation.