Yes absolutely, thanks for the explanation. As another comment said, this is really nicely written and I should’ve said it earlier - and it’s on this kind of text that I get reminded that there is a gap between a good level of English and native level :)

I get some of the references and can search online for the rest, but what mainly gets me confused is that I was expecting a more detailed reasoning/explanation of how they became “radicalized” - or what that means for them. I get an nice feeling of what OP has gone through, but I only understand in a very vague manner what justifies it. Thinking about it it’s probably intentional, I just didn’t read it with the right mindset.

Fun fact, I got the lemons thanks to my economics course.

After “College was paid for…” I can’t really follow either, although I understand most of the sentences I don’t really get the narrative… or some fancy deliberate emphasis on the change in OP’s life at that point hmm

+1 for only one pair of socks and spacious shoes/boots, I was told like OP noticed that sock layers don’t work for feet and you should instead rely on having a layer of air as thermal insulation.

Also, if you want a temporary source of heat there are small pouches that you can pop in hot water for a few minutes and that will stay hot for 5-10h, the ones I used were single use but I believe reusable ones exist. They rely on an exothermic reaction instead of batteries.

right, this is quite evocative and what I initially had in mind, but the question seems to be more subtle? A village is a single centralized unit, here instances can defederate and users can block traffic. Will threads users invade the fediverse village or just not care about it, even if they have access? Could it give an opportunity for ppl to read content that will ever only be threads (political figures. institutions, etc.) without having a meta account and using a meta app? Will the bots that apparently plague threads rn will plague the fediverse? Why don’t they now? If some instances defederate and others not, could I have one account where I talk to the tourists, and another account in a defederated instance where I’m back in my calm village?

I agree with the imagery and moral aspects, but I feel like understanding the practical implications which are not obvious to me is important to gather momentum to kick them out - I felt like people disagree on subjects that they probably shouldn’t if they both had the same understanding of the situation (which includes me).

is there a writeup somewhere that ideally goes into enough detail to clearly understand how instances/federation work and what would really happen ? I hate Meta but I realize I have no clue what threads coming means and implies, decentralized systems are very unintuitive when you’re used to conventional social media.