I’m a big fan of plant based burgers, but the reality is that telling people “just eat plants” is not going to result in any change. They’ve long ago decided that the inconvenience of switching protein sources is greater than the climate impact ignoring that choice makes, so the only way we’re ever going to see change is to either ban cows or provide an alternative that the masses can/will adopt.

Assuming you’re referring to lab-grown meat, I think that’s also a great alternative. We should be exploring any and all options that can get us to stop relying on cows for protein.

Not sure what to take from this other than it being a really bad take. Insect protein is orders of magnitude more sustainable and eco-friendly than beef. We could replace all the land we destroyed that is used to have cows standing around in their own shit and for a fraction of the acreage produce the same number of protein and calories without massively contributing to climate change.

When you first subscribe to a community it only pulls in the last 20 or so posts and I think a limited amount of comments, and then everything going forward. This seems to be a common point of confusion for a lot of instance admins.

Presumably this is to prevent a possible DDoS/performance failure vector as it would be trivial to setup a large swarm of instances on tiny VM’s and then simultaneously start hitting massive communities from a single instance and requesting a large body of historical content.

Edit: Also when you first setup and start subscribing to a large number of instances, this initiates a LOT of communication and database writes. Lemmy still has some performance bottlenecks. Once everything is initially synced and settled it runs fine. I have a friend running their instance on a $5 Linode instance that only has 1vCPU and 1GB of RAM without any issues, and they’re hosting users.

Living in BA currently and we drink only bottled. I don’t want to trust that the building manager is keeping up tank maintenance. When I was living in the US I would drink tap, though it was extremely heavy in calcium, and would leave everything white if you let it air dry.

Same, did you know the project is still around with active contributors? I have no idea how many active users there actually are but I was surprised to see the codebase is still alive.

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

Everyone forgot about the Diaspora Kickstarter in 2013 :-(

Updated my comment, I forgot to mention it also supports the kbin /m/ format for communities

I saw those giant threads where it was being discussed in circles and decided to take a crack at implementing it myself. Turns out it was not that difficult, I think I was just the first developer who found the threads and took action. Everyone else was focused on getting bug fixes into this release.

Is that another Lemmy Android app? Not familiar with the name

Another addition that wasn’t covered in the release notes, these will now automatically be linked to your local instance without having to do anything:

• /c/announcements@lemmy.ml
• !announcements@lemmy.ml
• /m/community@kbin.social
• /u/Zetaphor@zemmy.cc

Edit: Forgot about kbin support

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We’re not all trapped in the same building anymore. You can just move to a different instance and still have the same software experience but with the community you prefer.

You’re also forgetting that with a centralized platform everyone is stuck under the same roof. If we do reach that level of saturation then the communities can always splinter into a different instance or group of federated instances.

The problem with reddit was once we reached the point of everyone being there and the overall quality lowering, there was no refuge for the more engaged users to congregate and reform the communities that focus on quality over quantity. You could try and flee to more niche subreddits but it’s really not the same, as demonstrated by OP making this post.

And then as you pointed out, the financial incentives are very different here, which will change how users engage with the platform and how the platform evolves as a result. Centralized platforms do everything to drive engagement to increase ad impressions and potential value to ad distributors. We have an opportunity to build communities with entirely different business models where growth is not an imperative.

The only algorithms here are for sorting posts based on activity and recency, rather than trying to maximize engagement so you see more ads. Also it’s all completely open source.