There's Uber Black but only luxury cars with specifically licensed drivers, so it costs more. https://www.uber.com/it/en/ride/uberblack/
Alternatively I'd look for a room or B&B near the airport (I see several on Google maps) and travel there on the 14th
The week of Aug 15 is terrible in Italian cities... Everyone is on holiday
So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).
This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.