When Ivan I became a ruler of Moscow, Rus had already been conquered by Mongols for 80 years.
Kiev lost its political importance long before Mongols, when Andrey Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal captured Kiev in 1149 and just went back home instead of staying to rule there. He later led the sack of Kiev in 1169, ending the Kievan Rus period.
I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks
IRC is actually somewhat federated, as one network can consist of multiple servers hosted by different people.
Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed
You could still use WebDAV. It’s simple and works with most file managers.
you rock this outfit
or moves at constant speed
Short answer: Yes, this is stupid.
I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.
You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds
what’s the point then
They can be URNs (like magnet:), as shown above.
Or a bank. Or a billionaire. Or a hedge fund. Or a stock market maximizing algorithm.
Only government has full control over its national currency via central bank and taxes. It’s not decentralized, as every commercial bank needs to get a loan from the central bank, and people have to pay taxes in national currency.
It’s not true, all ActivityPub IDs are URIs
and the size of some of the largest hoards have no significant relation to the availability of physical currency
Also true. Only MB money aggregate is in active circulation.
Taxes don’t fund government expenses
“Printing money” is a metaphor, of course most money now is just virtual numbers.
Which makes it even easier for a government to create and spend it :)
Money is free and infinite according to MMT
ActivityPub spec allows content-addressed IDs, just nobody implemented them and now it’s too late.
Lords used to have flammable houses as well before they started building castles out of stone