The fact that people don't get the concept of federation depresses me.

Like people getting confused by the mere concept of 'multiple servers' when just a little over a decade ago most of the internet was like that is just astounding.

this place isn't much better because almost everyone is only talking about twitter breaking or bluesky itself

there's also those tiny wheelbarrow things that i can't think of the proper name of

you just don't do big trips. you can make smaller trips more often, and buy few enough things that you can walk home with them or take them on transit