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This meme really only makes sense in response to something. I've definitely heard many non-vegans complain that a vegan diet is restricting. Most of those people do only eat like 3 veggies ever.

That being said, it's a meme, not a philosophical treatise.

Transport is a teensy tiny part of the climate/environmental impact for food. In 99.9% of cases, a plant-based food will beat out any meat from next door.

That being said, local in the sense things that actually grow locally and are in season is still a good idea, though more from a community building perspective.

For a good look at a topic 98% overlook, check out Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. I'm obviously biased as a vegan, but I find it hard to believe that someone could read and understand just the first chapter (30 or so pages) and not agree with him.

Possibly an extreme take, but have you seen everything you need to see? As in, is there no need for you to discover and learn about new things, concepts, ideas, people? Sure, you can hope that something interesting pops up on your chronological page, but that's a 1 in a million chance. You might say "just search for that new thing", but that's antithetical to discovery. How can I search for something I didn't know existed? How many movies, games, books would I have missed out on without at least some algorithmic help?

For reference, I was around for the time of the forums too. It's not the downfall of society to not have algorithmic recommendations, but it absolutely decreases discoverability of new interesting things, and conversely, the dissemination of important ideas. Sure, I knew about communism etc. before I started using TikTok. But only there did the algorithm give me great creators that explained stuff in an understandable way. Only there did I find out about coops, from an actual coop owner(?).

Yes, which makes the system harder to use, ergo all the comments from normies. There are obvious advantages to federation, but I wish people stopped pretending there aren't any trade-offs.

Honestly, it could be a UX solution, that doesn't need a fundamental change in federation. I can already post as myself to lemmy.ml, even though my account isn't there. So a solution that transparently does exactly that, but while I'm browsing the lemmy.ml instance should be possible. Somewhat similar to how following people on Mastodon on different instances opens a popup for login, then follows them. Honestly, even just an easier/automated way to map from

<Post on Lemmy.ml>

<Copy of that Post on Feddit.de>

As someone that unironically wants to rewrite everything in Rust, but does Java for a living, Go started off horrible, but has become OK. Especially for that sweet spot between "too big for a shell/python script", but "not big enough to need perfect type checking/advanced tooling", Go is decent. I recently clobbered together a CLI tool for a customer that does some custom stuff involving S3 files. I disagree with it's biggest fans that it's really simple. Some of the syntax seems very weird, the error handling (while better than exceptions) is still extremely tedious and weak.

Honestly, the fact that the creators thought they knew better than EVERYONE ELSE that they didn't need generics, and argued against it FOR YEARS, just to finally add them now tells me everything I need to know about how they think of their users, and about whether they react in a timely and reasonable manner to needs of the community.

But Lemmy IS harder to use than alternatives, that's just irrefutable. If I have a Reddit Account, I can interact with any Reddit content in any sub, directly. I don't have to find the version of that post in my instance, DIRECT ACTION.

Sometimes I feel like a federated login (think Google OAuth style) would be far superior to just federating content.

No, Twitter has an algorithm. As much as people hate them, algorithms are what make social media actually interesting. 99.99% of creators I follow on TikTok (for example) I would have never ever found if all I had was a chronological feed of messages.

Obligatory to each their own, etc. etc.

That being said I'm not sure who these insect burgers are for, or what problem they solve. If you acknowledge that diet is big part of climate change solutions, then why not go directly to plant-based burgers? It's not like crickets have anything in common with red meat in any way.

My cynical take is that it's just a way to "do the right thing" without agreeing with the vegans. Gotta eat dead animals.