I don’t think it’s just federation, I believe for posts to appear in your instance’s All feed then at least someone on that instance needs to be subscribed to the associated community

Depends which instance you’re on!

mostly British

No, mostly not British. Only proper cockney geezer really.

“The car wants washing” is fine, thankfully I’ve never heard anyone north or south say “The car wants washed”, which was OP’s concern

I’d say the suppression of ain’t is perfectly rational unless you want to sound like a cowboy

I’ve seen this posted a few times but I could never find a source. I think this is just what people want to believe!

Thankfully not, I don’t miss scrolling past publicly-posted comments which could have just been the save button!

We’re on a lemmy.ml community, so Mali I guess

Lands End to John O’Groats is more than 15 hours drive and Britain is comparatively small. This isn’t the brag that Tex thinks it is!

Surely just don’t use the swears at all if you want to be cautious? I doubt it’s any less professional to type “f*ck” in a work email rather than “fuck”!

Why are you typing “sh!t” and “f*ck”? You’re allowed to swear on the internet, you know.

The difference is all that stuff went away, traditional desktop computers aren’t going anywhere. Sure, you can probably manage fine at home with just a phone, but not in a lot of jobs.

This data is poorly presented and unclear. It may well have some really useful insights, but it’s definitely not beautiful.