What exactly does it do / which problem(s) does it solve? Its website reads kinda intentionally vague to me.

Regarding weather: I just love the no-frills at-a-glance presentation of the AF Weather Widget

Unless someone would stumble upon a combination of microwave magnetron that “just so happens” to fit a satellite dish LNC mount. I can neither confirm nor deny that such combinations might exist.

It certainly would seem a very good way to impart… “energy” into all and sundry besides the intended target, and as such horribly dangerous and irresponsible.

Aus der “nur zufällig mitgekriegt” Blase:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/schlappe-fuer-ursula-von-der-leyen-macron-stoppt-dubiose-personalie-li.371031

bzw mit noch bisserl mehr drum rum:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/gastbeitrag-martin-sonneborn-die-partei-zum-tod-der-idee-der-europaeischen-union-li.370634

How would they ensure this latter thing?

In my current understanding, it’s readily possible today (on Lemmy and related software), what could Meta do to keep this from continuing to work?

I guess this will already have been said, but nonetheless:

I like the feeling of community as it is right now in the Fediverse very much.

Most of me hopes that it will not successfully federate with Meta, ever; or if it “must”, in a way that will be mostly irrelevant to me (communities I wouldn’t subscribe to in the first place, anyway).

I don’t see how that, in turn, would give Meta any control over the parts of the Fediverse that I care about. If they want to join and contribute in good faith, fine. If not, also fine. Why should it change anything for Fediverse “centered” communities?

I never cared about size or majority, but about quality of content and discourse. And I find that in those points, the current Fediverse much outshines anything else I’ve seen (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, …) in the last decade or so.