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This is an old article, here's the follow up: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216
TLDR; he got is visa back and is still in the US.
Haha, I like the suggestion of a connection to Polish. kbin and kbin.social were created by a Polish dev, after all, and that was my introduction into the fediverse.
Basically my instance started out as an experiment - I was trying to set up a single-user instance for free. I was successful (well, more or less - my always-on internet connection is paid as a perk by my employer, and I set it up on an old laptop that I had lying around).
One of the consequences though of going fully free is that I don't get much choice in the name of my instance. (It's actually a hash of the SSH key I use to authenticate into the service provider at srv.us I believe.) Likewise, my username is derived as a hash of my posts from spez's website before I moved on to kbin.social