It’s worth stepping back a moment to appreciate that it’s actually worked. Whether it will continue is another story, but Lemmy became a successful and viable alternative to Reddit. That’s worthy of praise and celebration, and it couldn’t be done without the admins and mods of .world who’ve made this place into what it is.
Well I’d certainly say they dodged a bullet
What the fuck are they smoking in Wyoming and Montana and Idaho?
Correct, 100%. I was just going through the science. Targeting human respiration as a carbon source is an extremely absurd notion.
You haven’t misunderstood it! You’re just coupling cellular respiration with photosynthesis, which on the surface seems to balance to net zero – 6 CO2 molecules and sunlight create 1 glucose molecule, and we break down 1 glucose molecule for energy and generate 6 CO2 molecules.
There’s one big factor though which isn’t immediately obvious, and that’s the rate of reaction. The chemical equations say nothing about how many molecules are consumed per second. In order for the net CO2 to be zero, they’d need to consume and generate CO2, respectively, at the same rate, which isn’t the case.
It’s actually a really good thing, because photosynthesis happens faster. Plants are net negative CO2 because of that. What we’d need to complete this comparison now is how much CO2 a human generates by existing, and we can determine how many plants are needed per human to have the same net CO2.
And people lost the distinction between tabloid and journalism, so when journalism now requests money to keep going, it gets scoffed at.
This is an inherent problem with the concept of free information. I would love universal and free information, but that doesn’t take into consideration that quality information requires labor. Wikipedia isn’t free of that either, the labor is just largely unpaid.
At the end of the day, we need to pay journalists, editors, curators, and contributors. If you want quality news, you need quality people. And to get quality people, you need generous compensation, whether that comes from subscriptions, advertisements, or taxes.
I question a lot of the choices they’ve made in the opinion section, and which letters from politicians to publish, but it can’t be understated that OP/EDs are totally separate from everything else.
Well in January I believe they told third party app developers that they weren’t going to charge for the API this year (but that someone was in the works). Then May I believe is when reneged on that? June? I know the charging went into effect on July 1.
In May/June Spez said that old Reddit wasn’t going anywhere. So we can extrapolate ~October for them to announce it’s ending, and then it being killed by the end of the year.
Man thinks CEOs actually offer something and aren’t universally hated lmao
“you deserve to be free from Reddit’s oppressive thumb, and this system will let you do just that!”
“What if I piss the mods or admins off?”
“Ha get fucked”
Yeah this was hilariously ironic to read
I’m not totally out, there’s some gaming subreddits which are directly visited by the devs for feedback unfortunately. There’s certain mangas I read and shows I watch too. But other than that, everything else is Lemmy.
I know that sounds really unimpressive, but it’s actually a significant reduction. I’ll only go for very specific reasons, providing dev feedback or discussing a new chapter/episode. That’s a few times a week at best for not much time at all. I don’t bother regularly browsing the subs for interesting content anymore.
A substantial part of my activity was commenting on politics and world news, and I’ve completely cut that out. “General discussion” like that is all on Lemmy now, and it’s easily the majority. If I’m wasting time at work, it’s probably on Lemmy now.
This is a fairly good bellwether to see who’s progressive and who’s a champagne socialist.
Yeah they’re fucked. New moderation will never work if the users don’t support it. And judging from the comments, they definitely don’t support it.
Das ist sehr gut!
I don’t think so, largely because his ego wouldn’t allow it.
This is almost always the case. If it’s biodegradable at room temperature and pressure, it’ll be degrading once you get it.
We’re probably best off converting most of our things into industrially biodegradable products, and then having our waste go to composting plants instead of landfills.