I think part of it is the city is pretty much going broke at this point, has no mayor, and the premier has a grudge against it. So unfortunately it makes some sense the patio stuff is understaffed and haphazard. Sad though, it has been a bright spot in an otherwise dismal situation.
I can sort of see that for mastodon as it's meant to be ephemeral but is the Lemmy community also resistant to indexing?
https://simple.wikipedia.org/ is a good alternative sometimes and I'm glad it exists, but that's almost the opposite problem.
It does seem like they make an effort, their style guide starts out with "Probably the hardest part of writing a Wikipedia article on a mathematical topic, and generally any Wikipedia article, is addressing a reader's level of knowledge." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Mathematics
compensate Canadian media companies for republishing their content on their platforms
The linked article makes the policy sound halfway reasonable, it makes sense to me that republishing whole articles or large excerpts should involve compensation. But it seems like it's way more insane and would perhaps even require Lemmy.ca to pay newspapers just for exactly something like this post: a link and a quote.
Hmm, I don't know if that's the case? eg. mightn't giving Google both your search queries and your emails paint a more detailed picture of you than if you gave, say, Microsoft your email so Google only had your search?