Also for interaction - number of active users is a very important metric - and with something like this they basically guarantee that a lot of users are checking very regularly - and the investors for the IPO probably will never see that place
Yeah exactly - just look at the protests when fuel prices had a (relatively insignificant to what would be needed) rise in recent years
A lot of people seem to think that they are free of any responsibility whatsoever and can continue living as if they are not influenced by climate change...
A those corporations that only pollute for the sake of pollution and not because customers only buy the cheapest product and not the one that's actually sustainable? Or those oil drills taking oil out of the ground just to pollute and not because people are desperate to fly into holiday and to drive their car to the supermarket 5 minutes away?
A lot of what those corporations do boils down to personal choice - and you can't really regulate them unless a decent amount of people is already doing those personal choices as "just making pollution really expensive" will result in massive price spikes for those kind of products and people will riot.
Indigo action alone can't fix this but without it an option is impossible since we'll never get laws supporting those actions
Politics will NEVER implement something that most people are against - so yeah it's 100% on individual responsibility to change first and show them that it's no problem if meat or flying or even fuel gets much more expensive since it's not sustainable at this level since they already reduced their consumption.
If people don't do that first then politicians won't take those measures.
Just see what the (small) rise in gas prices for the end-user from Russia attacking Ukraine did in terms of protests and people blaming politicians on being responsible for the high prices.
Also if you vote with your wallet then there is incentive for the big corporations to change, too (even if that alone won't solve anything it's still helping). For example the biggest producer or meat replacements in Germany is a really old company that only sold meat until a couple of years ago.
They started some test balloons and because people kept buying it they kept increasing the production amounts and now they sell more replacement than meat.
A meat heavy diet is one of the main impacts a single person has on climate - and switching to a meat-free one is pretty much only about breaking an existing habit as this actions shows very well.
If it's easier to take the vegetarian options and meat isn't the default then people are far more likely to change their habits - that is imho the bigger takeaway than what a college's emissions are
The bigger subs are easily migrated to Lemmy with enough users to produce regular content. The smaller communities here are extremely deserted as the smaller userbase of Lemmy seems to hit those the hardest - also the federated nature making it harder for users to connect groups with similar topics together and select one as the main one
The only he I possibly see myself preordering in the forseeable future (haven't preordered anything in the last 10 years since I really dislike buying something you don't know)
Some feature which I absolutely need which for some reason is not part of most task apps is to repeat tasks based on the completion date instead of the start date.
Dumb example: If I have a task to water my plants every week and I do it after 4 days already then the next due date is in 10 days instead of the 7 I'd want
The main question is imho what's the cause - are they they worst to live in because of their politics? Or do people there vote populists because they are so unhappy with their lives
Too many people believe they can just continue living like they were 30 years ago - if big oil would stop producing stuff and plastics, gas and airplane fuels would not be available anymore then people would riot
Even threatening to increase prices to a level that would make sense to limit the use to absolutely necessary levels would piss off too many people to be a viable option because everyone just wants to believe that it's just for "the others" to change but not for themselves.
The problem is that there's a huge divide between people that see this and people that are mainly interested in their own profit that now even turn to right wing politicians when you even suggest that they should change their lifestyle as it's not sustainable
The world is truly fucked because we created too many people that are too focussed on themselves to consider stepping down for others...
Most countries except for the US still have them afaik
Here in Germany they are in every city and very successful
I think the problem is that the US malls are in the middle of nowhere and you need to take your car there and spend a lot of time there.
Here they integrated as part of the inner city and flourishing and you can just walk to the old town or other things nearby