Erdoğan is clearly a moron, but the article is dated January 2022. Why is this in worldnews?

I mean trials in absentia are super common, including in Western democracies. If you’re confident you can prosecute but unable to detain the defendant, then you can still try them without them being physically present.

Yup, same here.

It feels like a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I agree - I was definitely more of a lurker on reddit than a massive contributor (14 years, <30k karma), but I loved how there was always a relevant subreddit for even fairly niche interests. I miss that on the fediverse - but at the same time, I’m hopeful that the fediverse will, in time, gain wider attention. I don’t miss the low quality content, but I miss the sheer volume of content, and with careful curation of subreddits, managing the signal to noise ratio was easy enough.