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Maybe ISPs is an okay comparison? Most of us are on different ISPs but we access the same internet.

It's probably more productive to just ignore the technical details. Half the country seems to believe they're buying "wi-fi" nowadays.

Just stick with "try Mastodon" or "try Lemmy" and let the non-technical folk build whatever mental model suits them best.

Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.

No "it was a different time" excuses wash yet.

Oh!

Vielen dank - jetzt fühle ich blöd :D

Ja, ich verstehe so viel (memes are the same all over the world ;D ) - aber habe ich noch keine Ahnung was "ich_iel" bedeutet :)

Ah, ich höffte daß diese Frage über die weiter Meinung von "ich_iel" Posten war...

(mein Scheißdeutsch entschuldigen, bitte :D )

Okay, that's fair, they do have another scandal to weather (contrived though it appears). Sorry, I thought I read a slight undertone of "filthy BBC got anuvver nonce innit" :)

I've still got no idea who people think it is.

Nor do I care to, because it ain't remotely sodding important.

Seems like the BBC may have another one on their hands.

Another... what, exactly? Rude, unpleasant person who happens to be either gay or bi? (I think I get this message from the reporting, but I'm not certain that I've specifically seen the gender of the original "young person" mentioned now that I think about it)

This is such an obviously confected story to fling shit at the BBC. It disappoints me that so many otherwise articulate and sensible people seem to be swallowing it hook line and sinker.

Damned filth.

I had a Panda

No.

There's no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.

Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it's not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they're just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.

...actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don't go to. But that's just them.

I would love to know more without having to actually research who this guy is.

With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)