I assume the server instance and the user would both have to be in the country. But I don’t think lemmy instances are making money off of their users that I know of.
We prefer to privatize the gains, and socialize the losses. That way when the electric grid fails, the multibillion dollar corporate utility companies can be bailed out by their customers
(Just realized this is posted in Canada. I’m in the states)
My first girlfriend’s dad use to always say “two objects can not occupy the same space at the same time” he was a science teacher lol