All of those jobs that depend on your commute would get hurt, yes, but the money you spend on them you’d probably spend a part of it in your community, when you go to cafes near your house, when you have time to get groceries in your neighborhood, etc.

Also, people moving away from big centers is not a downside, that would improve their lives, and it would make the big cities cheaper for those who stay.

Does this platform have an esports team and/or is it built with Rails?

If an account posts enough vague info, eventually when you piece them all together they’re not so vague anymore.

Just make nuclear powered cruise ships, easy.

/s

if theres a way to link your username to an email address, Meta could, for example, create an instance and scrape all that info and attach to your shadow profile, and depending what kind of things you upvote, they could infer your political opinions, sexual preference, location, hobbies, etc.

If you use the same username on the Fediverse and somewhere else, they could even already have that info on file.