Representing Scotland here with suggestions of Billy Connolly and Kevin Bridges.

Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.

Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.

Not American but aware of it as much of the world is. I’d guess they have military facilities doing some research and development there but anything truly wild will be done somewhere else, probably Alaska or another desert location.

With all the eyes on it all the time probably not got anything really juicy there.