JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution 23 hours ago:
The title of the magnum opus of renowned historian Orlando Figes, who has written multiple books on the Russian Revolution, is eloquent: “A People’s Tragedy”.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 4 days ago:
Yeah that’s true but in this scenario it’s your fault, not theirs.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 4 days ago:
Every social-media platform strips EXIF metadata before publishing the photo.
So the issue is the trustworthiness of the social-media platform itself. Personally I always strip the metadata before sharing anything anywhere.
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 4 days ago:
A nuanced take in response to casually lobbed accusations of Nazism? How come you haven’t been banned?
- Comment on I love Lemmy 1 week ago:
Perhaps it depends on community but my experience has been pretty uniform: brigading, comment removal, bans, for expressing ideas that (according to opinion polls) are shared by literally most of the population. At first I was a bit shocked, now I know just to avoid politics, it’s not worth the trouble. If you’ve had a difference experience then good for you.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 1 week ago:
Try expressing a centrist or - heaven forbid (I haven’t actually tried this one) moderate conservative - position on a hot-button subject and see if you still feel that way.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 1 week ago:
Just don’t try to debate politics unless you already subscribe to the prevailing groupthink. In fairness, that’s true of any social-media forum, and the corporate ones have other problems on top.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
That’s helpful. These estimates do tend to vary a bit depending on assumptions (type of plane or car, what occupancy etc). The 2t I quoted was slightly high. My point was that there’s no other way to emit 1 tonne in 6 hours.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Apart from the methane problem, all livestock farming takes, by definition, a massive amount more land than arable farming to produce the same amount of food. On a stressed planet of 9 billion people, there simply is not enough land to feed everyone with red meat.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
First, well done for taking it seriously and doing your bit.
The point of the post (I think) is simply to illustrate that certain actions are much, much more important than others. Anecdotally, there are still plenty of people out there who believe that, say, turning off a couple of (low-energy) lights, or “recycling” a plastic bag, are somehow major good deeds that allow them to kick their feet up and celebrate with a steak. There’s still way too much ignorance about all this, IMO.
In reality (as you seem to understand), some gestures are far more important than others. Ditching red meat (and dairy) really is a big deal. Everyone who claims to care about this problem should at least consider doing it.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
This is a nice articulation of nihilism.
The paradox being that the attitude is both justified and… certain to only make the problem worse.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
lasts much longer which is important as a single household
This is an often-overlooked argument for veganism. If you plan carefully, you literally don’t need a fridge.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Roughly true, but you’re eliding a very, very problematic activity into “travel”: aviation.
Per kilometer, flying is pretty carbon intensive (about the same as driving - basically: the extra efficiency of being packed into a tin can is offset by exponentially higher wind resistance at high speed). The problem is that airplanes allow you to burn up massive distances really quickly.
A single transatlantic flight will blow a 2-ton hole in your personal carbon footprint. That’s 10-20% of an average European’s annual footprint - or 100% of a sustainable footprint. For anyone who flies more than once a year (i.e. likely a bunch of people here), cutting down on flying is likely to be the single biggest thing you can do for the climate.
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.
I generally agree but I still feel it’s important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it’s definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).
IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That’s a fair theory but it seems to me that there’s plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.
RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.
Agree, I use it every day.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, good parallel, didn’t think of that. Perhaps there’s just a limit on how much you can decentralize without things breaking down for either social or technical reasons.
- Comment on The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub. 5 weeks ago:
Very interesting, thanks.
Atproto scales quadratically, […] harms performance AP scales horizontally
Clearly true. But this suggests to me that ATProto might still work well with, say, 5 or 15 "PDS"s. That is still enough IMO to guarantee a high level of pluralism.
In a commercial market, let’s say for telephony or cars or web browsers, we readily accept that there are only a handful of players. Indeed, there’s generally an optimal number, high enough to guarantee competition but low enough that we can keep track of the brands and trust that they won’t go out of business tomorrow.
And nothing is stopping at least one of those few brands from being a “good guy”, akin to Mozilla’s historic role in the web-browser market. It could be run by say, Wikimedia, for example. At least we would know that it would not disappear tomorrow, which is more than can be said for most Lemmy instances.
I agree that there should be enough space for both ATProto and AP to thrive.
- Comment on Bluesky is more open than you think. 1 month ago:
Very useful, thanks.
As I see it, Bluesky is fundamentally different from Xitter and it is a major step in the right direction. It is short-sighted to reject it because of some technical imperfections.
The fundamental question IMO is whether there is enough mindshare (i.e. users and attention) to allow ATSocial (AKA partial federation) and ActivityPub (AKA total federation) to both be successful. I’m thinking there is. After all, the vast majority of people are still on ad-fuelled corporate social media, with all its internal contradictions.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 1 month ago:
Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 1 month ago:
It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 1 month ago:
This is philosophy, not history or even historiography.
- Comment on Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms 1 month ago:
This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
Fair enough. But whether this is a technical problem or a human problem, it is a problem. Silly for people to be denying that IMO.
If servers are going to come and go every 3 months at the whim of individuals, then - IMO - maybe there are are too many servers. Anecdotally, I picked my particular one for this very reason. Seems I anticipated well.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
Completely. This feels like a major communications fail. It’s a basic technique of fundraising and mobilization: put a big ticking clock on your campaign and people will step up in time.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
But that’s the point. I don’t want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
Maybe we should rename this place too.
This is the best of your ideas.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
If we do things as you seem to want, then there’s no point even having separate communities. Let’s just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.
The rules are there for a reason.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
Check the community description, it has a decent definition of “showerthought”. With examples for clarity.
Also this community is actively asking for more mods.
So that explains it.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.
The “mods” in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.