karmiclychee

If you’re in RoR land, there’s always the Faker gem to get you started. Or keep it simple - find lists of names on Wikipedia or something, shuffle and combine.

I’ve seen some active instances die due to admin neglect (not paying the bills, for instance), and I’ve wondered how those communities have fared since, since they’d have to start over elsewhere, and without all the content and history from their origin server. Same goes with user accounts too.

I mean… If you’re gonna self medicate, this is the way to do it

It’s good branding. “China,” as we think of it, fragmented into states that recombinated into different versions of what they each claimed to be the rightful empire, many, many times. It’s like a ship of thesius thought experiment, almost, but sometimes the boat is a pile of wood, sometimes it’s a galleon, other times it’s a fleet of smaller boats.

And sometimes it’s Turkish. (Sorta)

Source: degree in Song Dynasty era Chinese history. (It’s a long story)