Partially, at least not what I use regularly. The account settings has a system for exporting settings, communities and block lists. You cant really retroactively move comments and posts to have been made by another user, but making a post on both the old and new users claiming eachother should propagate to other instances and be archived correctly.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not hype about moving from a great instance, but I feel this has been a great demonstration of why the federation is a good idea. All in all, migrating has been a fairly smooth experience, and most communities are either on other places or are moving fairly structured. Previously, closure of services or enshitification has caused me to spend weeks to months hunting for new places to read. This has been a great experience in most ways, and I think I can live happily jumping from instance to instance like this for a few years until I give up and set up my own.

Not an electrician, but I would imagine the danger being if the technician checked the wire was off locally, started work and then the home generator starts feeding mid work.

He is elected though? It is not as easy to depose a pope as a president, but there is no military coup, secret police or other things associated with dictatorships.

It does not work on my work-computer, since office macros and some formatting renders differently across versions. Other required software constraints make windows unusable for me.

Welcome! I migrated when the old Reddit apps stopped working, and the grass is indeed greener on this side, except for the non-English communities.

I don’t know the details, but if you get hired for a position here while living abroad, you can get a work visa as skilled labour. That can later be converted to permanent residence after living here for some number of years and passing some language and/or culture test (I think). I know several people who have moved here either through work or university, including from the US. Best of luck no matter where you end up.

At least the lunch, warm cantine food at work is unfortunately not as common here as in many other places.

Norway is good if you get a job before moving. The weather, people, food and welcome is a bit cold, but life is good.

Especially when the next couple of verses explains it.

It varies a bit from country to country, but the overall idea is that cooperation between strong national labor unions, employers and the government can lead to a solid wellfare state for all. Some parts of our workers rights are therefore kept in collective agreements instead of laws. This is of course not a perfect system, and we regularly have problems with locally sourced super-rich as well, but most people here agree it creates a better society, even for “regular” millionaires.

One of the cornerstones for this to work is strong nationwide unions to create a sane balance of power. Much of this current conflict could be solved if someone got through to Musk that the right to organize is holier to us in the nordics than gun rights are to Americans.

Thanks, it’s good with a reality check from time to time :)

I’ve never been overseas myself, but this post sent me down a weird rabbit hole. Do I really understand correctly, that pre-made whipped cream is a thing over there? How does it even keep?