Post viral syndromes are phenomena that have been well documented long before COVID. You can find any number of scientific papers on the matter if you only cared to look.
I vaguely remember reading that long COVID is really chronic fatigue syndrome or similar. Basically it can happen after any infection. Doctors haven't been able to figure out what causes it largely because there hasn't been enough data. It's not until COVID came along that they're taking it seriously.
Not sure if that's more or less reassuring though. I guess personally I find it reassuring that it's likely not something COVID specific.
Absolutely! I love the steps Mastodon is taking. Basically when you click join from the main page you get an account on mastodon.social and it just works. You really need to dig around to find other instances.
I'm hoping there's an instance that figures out how to become popular and financially sustainable enough to be able to support that scale. Maybe it's lemmy.world or maybe it's another one in the future.
One option could be to sign up for the VPN or pocket premium. That goes to the corporation rather than the foundation. Though it would still partially fund products other than Firefox.
I'm getting tired of people telling me what Lemmy is supposed to be about.
Every individual instance has their own goals that are completely independent from the core Lemmy project. If the creators of Lemmy don't like that they shouldn't have made it open source.
There's no contradiction. It's just a free market. Reddit charged an absurd amount for their API and offered an inferior product as the only alternative. So people left.
If a Lemmy instance wants to charge for access or serve ads, that's fine too. But they better have some competitive advantage or people will leave for an instance that doesn't do that.
Another difference between Reddit and Sync is the scale. I support my local coffee shop over Starbucks for the same reason.
Funny how no one expects a coffee shop to run on donations.
The law is BS, no argument there. But Facebook and Google are absolutely destroying news. They're each operating a rigged market where they are both the broker and the seller. They eat into everyone's profits to make themselves fabulously rich. The only reason news outlets play the game is because not doing so would be even worse.
Imo the only solution is to regulate the ad markets that they're both running. Not this dumb link tax.
I used to equate Sync with Reddit too, but now I have a different perspective.
Reddit is nothing but a glorified link aggregator. Sync was my preferred way of viewing said list of links. Now that I have the exact same experience on Lemmy I've realized that Sync wasn't Reddit, it was link aggregation and where those links come from doesn't really matter.
It's kind of poetic because that's the promise of Lemmy. It doesn't matter where the links are hosted.
Says who? I'm just curious who decides what Lemmy's philosophy is. Does that philosophy extend across all instances or only specific ones? Or is it baked into the source code somehow?
Personally I think ads are alright. But that's just my philosophy.
I mean the chart says it's only used for cooking and pools, which is pretty accurate imo. Most recipes are in Fahrenheit and I've never heard anyone taking about pool temperatures in Celsius.
Post viral syndromes are phenomena that have been well documented long before COVID. You can find any number of scientific papers on the matter if you only cared to look.