Magnitude 4.7 earthquake strikes New York, New Jersey region
Following a California and Taiwan earthquake?... sure.
How can you explain the Fediverse to someone?
It isn't very difficult to understand, or new. Usenet used a similar system of exchange between news servers, and before people had the Internet in their homes (pre- 1990s) BBS systems used RelayNet and FidoNet.
what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
And yet you still can't ask the device to locate someone.