It's multi-layered and tedious to write down on the phone. Prolly easier to ask you some questions:
How do you think this meme's formula works?
Do you beleive it to be factual that China isn't authoritarian and that North Korea is not andictatorship? If not, do you know anybody who has ever claimed this?
Why don't they just tax by amount of electricity charged.
Prolly naive, but it's similar to the tax on gas and solves exactly the problem that is brought up with flat payments per car per year.
"completely closed to vehicles (including cars, buses, taxis, bikes, scooters, and pedicabs). Service and delivery vehicles will be the only exception" according to the article.
I've just "joined" the Fediverse a few days ago.
I'm somewhat tech-savy I'd say. I still find a lot of it confusing.
"Most people don't conceptualize it like that; they conceptualize it like the postal service. "
I think this was and still is in part true for me.
There's the term "Fediverse", which suggests that there's one continuous "universe" of things. But actually - and please correct me if I got this wrong - there's just servers connected/interlinked with other servers, which (strictly must, due to how it works) form bubbles/webs or islands of all sizes.
There are practically no postal service bubbles, because I can send mail to anyone I'd realistically wish. There are different postal service providers, but a "-verse" term would be better applied to postal service (-> "Postalverse") than to federated servers, imo.
So ideally as a noob coming from reddit or twitter, I'd like to know what the biggest bubble of connected servers is and where I can enter.
A thing I haven't figured out yet is why I can't find a decent feed feature on Mastodon.
On Lemmy there are local/all filters for communities a server is federated with, if I understood this correctly.
My mastodon home instance (mastodon.social) doesn't seem to have a feed, really. There's a "trending" filter, but it has very few posts - afaik just the ones I specifically subscribed to - and it doesn't differentiate between local and all federated servers.
Am I doing it wrong? :P
I'm expecting to have filters like in Lemmy, where I can just consume anything new, trending or controversial.
Who's doing what where?