Don_DickleIf the US dissolves for whatever reason and goes into a state of anarchy what would happen to the rest of the world?
magnetosphereAt first, LOTS of “I told you so” comments on social media. These would quickly disappear as the shit really hit the fan.
Lol you think there’s gonna be social media
KalladblogYou think there would be no social media left if Twitter, Reddit, Facebook & Co. went down?
Using Lemmy?
problematicPantherBut they would still exist, they’d just use servers in other countries.
Until the bills for running those servers start piling up. Most/all those companies are headquartered in the US, and it likely wouldn’t be trivial for employees in other countries to suddenly start accessing finances etc. if the US offices are unexpectedly shuttered.
There’s also a huge knowledge drain that could impact the operation of those servers. I work on a devops team that manages web services serving around 15 countries. All but one of my teammates are in the US. We occasionally have to deal with hardware failures in our AWS cloud environments that requires manual intervention to recover from, for example. If that sort of knowledge is lost, or even severely limited, then it can easily lead to cascading failures that makes a site completely inaccessible.