spaduf @ spaduf @slrpnk.net

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The mnemonic for remembering a newton is actually one of my favorites. It's the force required to move 1kg by 1m. A kg being roughly the mass of an apple makes Newton a natural and somewhat clever fit for the concept.

I believe part of what you may be seeing was a bug that was preventing moderation actions from federating properly. Fixed in 0.18.5

The problem is Lemmy has completely squandered this time between waves of new users. There's improvements in the pipeline but it may be too late at this point.

Probably Nvidia is too blame. With where things are now I would probably want an AMD card for a dedicated Linux gaming machine.

Super excited for this. The existing community over at !horror@lemmy.ml has a pretty different vibe that something like /r/horror. I suspect this will be a lot closer to what I'm looking for.

I refuse carts anymore but have never felt the same level of worry with dry herb vaping.

New ones are $100-$200 dollars where I'm at. This winter could be a rough one.

which is largely the ignorance and or malice of men IRL.

We're working on it over at !mensliberation@lemmy.ca!

There's still a lot of low hanging development fruit. All that downtime the bigger instances have are largely the result of poorly optimized database interactions (with the exception of the DDoSing) and that works out to higher costs overall. It should not cost instance admins nearly as much as it does to host a sum total of 50k users. Not to mention, moderation tools are still basically nonexistent. There is progress on tweaking the algorithm to not completely bury anything but the largest communities, so that will probably significantly improve folks feeds.

Also there's no point recruiting from Reddit anymore. I think we are better off establishing a wholly new slow growth phase pulling primarily from Mastodon. The userbase is huge by our standards and already understands federation. Not to mention Mastodon users tend to be far more active posters than Reddit users.

It's a shame how much of Lemmy's recent downturn appears to stem from slow and misprioritized development. At this point significant instances are dropping like flies and users are leaving in droves. I do not have high hopes for the future of this platform.

Significantly fewer for me. I smell hexbear

But remember, they intend to monetize this information by building it into your ad profile.

I really don't understand what the obsession with vaush is among the lemmy left. Why does anybody care about this guy? Is he anywhere near big enough to warrant the amount people talk about him?

One thing to consider here is the potential for heat stress. We don't want to depend on a mode of transportation that's unusable in the summer.

proprietary software

Found your problem.

The video spends a long time on the phenomena wherein men tend to feel the need to dominate discussions regardless of their actual qualifications. It cites one experiment wherein 16 women and 9 men had an introductory conversation on the issue. During this conversation there were 6 active speakers. 4 men speaking for a total of 9 minutes and 2 women who spoke for a total of 1 minute. These tendencies are mostly due to individuals desires to claim leadership of a group but absolutely leave us "paralysed and unable to push for the necessary policy changes". If you are interested in watching any portion of the video, you can skip to the part that I mentioned by going here.

The paper that the video cites: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2017/4/article/taking-space-men-masculinity-and-student-climate-movement

EDIT: Hopefully this wasn't double posted. My primary instance was having some outage issues.

Petromasculinity is a well documented phenomena and when paired with the male tendency to dominate discussions and consolidate power in hierarchies (both are covered in the video in the form of studies wherein climate oriented groups are completely derailed by their male participants apparent need to talk the most and shut down group based discussion) we see a problem that is salient and familiar but applied to a crisis where the stakes could not be higher. For the men in this thread who are unwilling to even WATCH the video let alone consider the merits of its arguments, it is very likely that you are actively the problem, because the same tendencies that inspire that action are also used to silence voices that can be instrumental in actual change.

I think wikis could be integral here. I can't believe Reddit never capitalized.

Consider advertising on Mastodon. I've had decent success there.

As an example. This is the sort of post I'm talking about: https://tech.lgbt/@spaduf/110941439731236455

@bookstodon Not sure if this is anybody's cup of tea but there's a new Lemmy instance dedicated to books and writing over at: https://literature.cafe

The best part is you can participate from your existing fediverse account. Communities on Lemmy can be followed like users and have similar functionality to a.gup.pe groups!

Try following @fiction as an example but remember that federation doesn't backfill.

More communities can be found here: https://literature.cafe/communities

Already sitting at about 8 boosts and several favorites from some folks with a fairly large follower count. That means potentially thousands of eyes. I went ahead and put together a dedicated user as I think that may be more appropriate than spam posting Lemmy communities/instances on my personal account. Not sure when I'll have time to flesh it out and make it active but I've already got a list of communities/instances and what groups I think would be interested in them. Find it here:
https://mastodon.social/@lemmy_for_mastodon