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I guess it should be read as "continental Europe". Europe has a major launching platform in French Guiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Space_Centre

P.S.: It's advantageous to be close to the Equator like French Guiana to benefit from a faster rotational speed of Earth's surface for the rocket launch.

The scale is also massively different. Some artist or intellectual reused the work of a few preceding people people and became famous (and sometimes rich) instead of them. But in the case of AI it's a couple of already ultra rich owners vs millions of likely mostly struggling creators.

Not paid, but Ecosia based in Germany and Qwant based in France. Plus they are working together on an EU based index. For now they rely on Americans in majority like Kagi and DuckDuckGo do afaik.

Animation from Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/09/04/la-france-plaide-pour-une-representation-cartographique-du-monde-plus-equitable_6765749_3210.html

The monster was created by a vibe-surgeon.

Don't those humans also have superhuman abilities in the Matrix which allow them to partially compete with the agents?

It seems like the massification of companies slowly caching up that a good chunk of people completely ignore any kind of traditional marketing (including webpage ads) and are looking for organic-looking opinions on communities instead. Astroturfing is not new, but this looks like the corporatisation of it.
It seems the only way to have an open platform protected from manipulation for private interest is to keep it small enough that it's not economically interesting.

In the artist's profile:

🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools • CC-licensed • No AI

Thanks

Can you provide some context, in particular how is it worse there than other instances that probably all struggle to moderate the slop?

Trigger the leftists with the questions. Joke?
I agree it's hard to have specialized communities here due to the population size, except for the subject that were already the core interests of the people here like IT and left politics.
I would say focus on posting whatever makes you happy without expecting anything back.

There are millions of professional coders who couldn't do what you did there.