Not sure you are allowed to invoke and bail out on a Godwin's Law post that way. And again, the last two World Cups were held in literal Authoritarian countries, complete with slave labor used to build the stadiums. So, you know, the US denying Visa fucking sucks, but we aren't Russia or Qatar.

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How is it the power grid couldn’t handle electric cars but it will be fine with all these data centers?

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Well, I'm not the best person to explain how that works (I'm just using it to build fun website :P), but the way i understand it: - bluesky is one of (potentially) many apps that run on top of a protocol "at proto" - in that protocol everyone has their own little server (personal data server = PDS)

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... that I don't understand either ^^), so you always have control even if you dont selfhost - regarding needing a key for reading: currently basically everything you do on at proto is public by default (excluding DMs and bookmarks afaik but those are actually saved outside of at proto), ...

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- you *can* totally selfhost your PDS (see github.com/bluesky-soci...), but you can also let someone else do it for you (most everyone on bluesky lets bluesky host their PDS), but even if someone else does it for you, you can always move your PDS somewhere else (using some cryptographic magic, ...

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