@NYbill@Luke I guess it's also a cultural thing about the individuality/freedom that is so important in the US, while trains are more a community/public service. The car has been the symbol of individuality and power, look at the different size of them, the US models are almost always bigger than the European models. The industry sold the American dream inside a car as an evolution of the horse.
People's reactions to Gab joining the Fediverse has done, and will continue to do, far more damage to the communities here than Gab itself.
For example, many instances are blocking https://mstdn.io because they refuse to block Gab, separating people from their possible and actual friends on the network. This is harmful.
Defederating based off of who other instances federate with will harm adoption. When a user can't follow their friends on most nodes, they'll lose interest quickly.
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@NYbill Think that here the distances are shorter and every country just made the ones inside and then connected with the rest. That led to a pretty dense rail service.
@ranjit 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Landlords are already requiring people to use apps to unlock building front doors and to pay rent. Legal tender laws only apply to debts, not to things agreed to in advance like rent.
So I suspect we'll end up with landlords demanding rent in Libra.
@jwildeboer IMHO FOSS could be considered anarchist , it's based on freedom and the respect of freedom for users and creators alike promoting no one can take away those freedoms , although I don't know how technically/philosophically integrates into anarchy (that I leave to people more educated than me in those subjects) @anarchistquotes