If everyone agreed to move, there would be no problem (as long as the Fediverse can accomodate everyone).
There's precedent. There was a myriad of social media sites Worldwide at some point. Then in a few years everyone "agreed" to move to Facebook. There are stories of how they aggressively took over markets, but at the end of the day I supposed they had the technically best site. And after over a decade of decay, people are still stuck.
I had the same reaction to some of the movies. What defines a plot twist? Unpredictable deviations from Hollywood formulae? Anyway, as some comments hint at, this is not to be taken too seriously.
The statement in the title is absurd, but I believe it. If we're cut off, I wouldn't be able to use mail, attend 50% of my meetings, or access any project files.
I joined today! I tried to post some images, but could only have one image per post. Then someone was rude, and I wasn't able to downvote him. I keep refreshing the front page, but nothing happens since there's no algorithm, the latest posts just stay there.
I think I'll stick around here in parallel to Reddit. Maybe some day I'll understand how instances and all of that works.
That's quite a sensible regulation. You'll more often hear about what things China doesn't regulate, so I'm glad to hear of a pro-consumer law coming into effect.
The hats from the article are not the same type of hats though. They resemble the Canadian toque, I suppose, or in Norway, "lue". Similarly we would call the MAGA dome + sun shade kind of hat "caps".
Ah, I recognize their cool flag from my vexillology days. 🤓