If the company dies, could the service continue?

Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?

Cool, but the Barcelona local government isn’t increasing prices; they are reducing supply.

That’s right, a reduction in supply increases prices.

They don’t care. They’re trying to indicate how unwelcome Sarah McBride, the first trans woman elected to Congress, is.

What percentage of Gen Z voted for Trump, though? Everyone seems focused on the election numbers as of they represent all voters when they don’t.

I wonder if Somaliland will ever get recognized.

Yes. The conditions of maintaining a veto doesn’t relate to being a member in good standing.

Given that supply is being removed, it is likely that demand will adjust to the new hotel supply.

Cruises are usually worse for a city than hotels economically.

At least with hotels and short term rental, tourists will linger and spend money on the room and dining. That money isn’t spent on the community when people cruise in while tourists still use the tourist facilities.

It depends.

If you rely only on tourism, you’re commuting to a low wage economy. However, some cities have used tourism as the base economy to springboard to high value industries as the tourism amenities end up getting used by high earning locals.

If you look at how RSS fell from use, there were two major issues. On the user side, users had to go out to find content as there wasn’t an inherent way to search for content within the system. On the creator side, creators had to deal with advertising themselves to users and they had to handle the monetization by themselves.

Social media created the algorithm to find content and developed some revenue sharing with creators.

If federated media takes off, it will probably look like Threads or Truth Social, where control of a front end monetizes development of the platform.

There would be no merit at all.

I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

Yes. Democrats voted for Obama in 2008 and he presented himself as more progressive than Hilary.

Get work to implement it.

I didn’t take the photos.

That doesn’t make sense.

How’s your bald spot?

I get it

Fuck you, asshole!

Gratches took jobs from my family! It was hard earned money we hoped to get by not working hard until they came.

Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.