This is what I was thinking, suing Google sounds like a cash grab as there’s government agencies and possibly private land owners responsible for putting up barriers and signs warning the bridge is out. Google maps is useful, but you still have to use some sense rather than blindly following it, heck, I’ve run into cases where it can’t figure out how to get to a street (that actually happened yesterday).

Nothing like that came up for me, but then I do have two blockers on my browser

While they have been, modern warfare is primarily the purview of national armies, the US shifted them from a supporting role to a much greater part for plausible deniability (Army casualties are very low when most of the combatants are mercenaries after all).

Oh, I did forget one thing Kbin does better, inline images. IMGBB, the place I keep my pics, offers copy & paste code for adding images to your blog, and the HTML works right off the bat, unlike Lemmy which requires the use of meta text

For me, I just like the interface better, but there isn’t a whole lot of difference really

A fair question, and one I don’t have an answer for, but I’d think if’n copyright was the problem, they’d just replace it with something else that’s in the clear.

Taxpayers paid for the art to be put up, now they get to pay for it to be taken down. Yep, good use of tax pounds.

I have mine running through Polaris Mail. The domain cost me around $5 for the year (renewal is $10 IIRC), and I’m running the Y25 plan for $25/yr which has been big enough for me. SMTP is included, and there is a web interface, but I haven’t really used that, T-bird and K9 take care of my needs.