There is no ‘deal’

There are some extremely active and vocal users on .ml that have a specific view point that they feel is extremely important.

You will see that viewpoint expressed not just on political posts, but in the comments of seemingly unrelated topics.

It seems that .ml was defederated from world to keep some separation of that view point and other topics.

You are still fully free to join any instance you want. You can even find community here to post that content if you wish, but there is a more active and vibrant community on .ml for that content.

Yeah, it’s easier to start a business than people think.

That is a bit crazy if you are in the US. There is no ‘business Id’ just say you are a sole proprietorship, meaning the business is just you, no corporation structure or anything like that and you are dba, doing business as, and your name.

That is how you technically describe yourself when you are a business when you are a person.

Your tax id number would just be your social security number.

It’s legal to transact business as a person.

Use a hdmi to ip adapter to stream to multiple locations on a local network. Learned about them when looking at security cameras.