It’s still on and will close at the end of the month. But yes I’m very annoyed that they didn’t share much of the instance outside a small notification on the admin.ch website. But the goal of this whole pilot test is that if Mastodon became big within the year, they would already have an instance running with officials accounts. But instead I guess they will focus on Bluesky.

Also noted :

• Navigable rivers
• terrain has cliffs
• armies seems to be condensed, with generals leading them. Fighting looks to be constant in some way? (or that’s just the render for the trailer)
• cities seem to expand much more
• the leaders looks to have some stats which can be improved

I mean, classic torrenting has no issue with user-friendliness, look at Popcorn-Time. It’s all about the app front-end, proper API to update trackers, and UX. Hell, you could enforce some balance or seed/leech by having a reward system for heavy seeders.

Note that I never used peertube, so it might just be exactly that…

Switzerland does have a mandatory service for all men, and doesn’t have belligerent neighbours… But the Swiss army is still very much stuck in the cold war mindset of being afraid of an invasion. Last time there was a vote, the people refused to abolish the militia system.

Tbh I don’t think military service is a problem as long as it’s only used for defence and is properly setup, instead of have nutjobs running the small professional army and wanting war because they trained their whole life for it…

Wait that’s not an April’s fool joke?