I’ve read of a couple small places. Was a coffee shop in the cities around here where they guy running it for 20+ years wanted to get out and the staff decided that rather than a new owner they would raise funds to buy it. Sort of run like a direct democracy with some rules based on seniority and such.

Like most anything P2P scale, consistency, and adoption are huge factors.

Don’t know about social media, but sites exist in systems like this: https://zeronet.io/

It’s a nice thing, but not a metric that I’m gonna brag about.

If you’re in a city sure. Those tiny scooters have been pretty popular it seems. Out in the corn fields less so, when every little hub of a few small shops is at least 5 miles apart that might get a bit annoying.

That sounds like a major liability. Think of the hospital bills for all the eye bleaching related injuries if Donnie started posting beach pics…

Are they using helman’s mayo for thermal paste? And under the CPU at that?

Very much on the electoral college, it made some measure of sense when the electors would have to ride a horse from California to DC maybe but that died a century or so ago.

From a smart ass perspective though, I just want to point that the TLDR portion actually has more words than the block above it. 🙃

Finally, some useful information out of ChatGPT

But can it run DOOM?

https://hubzilla.org/page/info/admin_guide

Similar to Friendica, personal page style fediverse software.

I kind of liked hubzilla last I dabbled in one of those type apps.