The total infrastructure support for 1,000 simultaneous people in a library that was only built for 100 is far greater than that.

It’s not simultaneous. 1000 people boycotting does not mean they all leave their homes and enter the library at the same time. Libraries are scalable (not limited to 100). They control the upper limit of the scale as well with timers.

And it doesn’t fix the problem that communication via Internet is required. You can’t live at the library.

Works for me. I am living proof that occasional Internet access from the library is possible.

Again that is a side effect. If reddit paid tier ones to block Lemmy, they now can.

They cannot. You’re again fixated on what’s legally possible, not how the market works. Reddit could not pay tier 1’s enough money to block Lemmy and offset the market consequences of that move.

I’m focused on tier 1 because that’s what actually matters. They are the ones who fought net neutrality.

That’s a false cause fallacy. Comcast fought net neutrality because for their retail business, not tier 1 business.

56k is a side effect, not the target.

Exactly. It’s not the target. As I said, you cannot market a dial-up connection that is artificially crippled. And you cannot cripple the speeds across the board enough to affect 56k connections.

Stop saying that when we’ve already proven it’s impossible because of government/school communication.

Nonsense. I am proof that boycotting is viable. I am living by the boycott. I can communicate with my gov just fine. I also communicate with researchers at universities just fine without paying Internet subscriptions and without using other institutions bandwidth that was not oversold.

Consolidation reduces the work up to the limit of existing infrastructure. You can litter without affect.

Indeed.

Everyone littering means more cleaners are needed.

The already exposed brokeness of your analogy continues to escape you. As already pointed out, the analogy is inaccurate if you assume no one litters to begin with. Everyone is already using the Internet. They would be effectively be moving their litter from being scattered to consolidated. The same litter in one place reduces the amount of infra needed, not increases. There is no longer a need to maintain all those comms lines citywide if no one uses them.

It’s why a festival requires far more clean up than regular service.

It’s far less effort.

We’ve already covered this.

Yes we have. How can you still fail to grasp this? 2-4 people cleanup after a festival in <2 hours. That same litter scattered citywide needs a staff of hundreds working days. It’s not even close. As I already established, you’re off by at least 2 orders of magnitude.

It’s why you can use the library, but it isn’t an option if all 10,000 people in a village needed to use it at the same time.

If you cannot support a network for 10k people in a small place, it’s a failure of your competency, not physics. A “library” need not be a single building. 10k people would be using a combination of libraries and campuses, in the unlikely event that you manage to find 10k people with the will power to boycott. You are well in the realm of pure fantasy at this point because Americans would have no hope of escaping their own intolerance for inconvenience on that scale. You simply will not find 10k people in any given city with the will power to boycott anything at all, much less something that serves as a daily convenience. But if you do, you’re limited only by your competence.

Which is beside the point that families with children living at the library isn’t an option. Schools communicate through the Internet.

There is nothing that stops students from using libraries and gov buildings. No one needs to “live” at a library.