themobyone

joined 1 year ago
 

I'm a fairly new users, but I feel that navigating around the fediverse is a bit cumbersome, maybe the wrong word for it. But there is a lack of overview in a way. I enjoy being on this server, but I also like to follow other communities. Lots of different topics, everything from cars to Linux to architecture.

Right now there are 10 (that I could find on browse.feddit.de) instances named Linux on different server. So the small number of Linux users using some fediverse instance is spread around over many servers. Coming from reddit, things were far from perfect over there, but there is only r/Linux. It's a shame users are spread so thin all over the place.

I used Linux as an example, I've seen the same "problem" for other topics as well. Anyways, just my perspective as a new users. Hope this wasn't too much of a rant, maybe we can look at this as an issue where the fediverse can improve.

 

I have subscribed to a few other communities around the fediverse. But all my subscriptions that are not local to beehaw.org are still pending. I made an account before last weekend, so I'm a fairly new user.

Also, what happens with my pending subscriptions to the "cars" community on lemmy.world now that it has been defederated? It's not important, I'm only wondering what I should expect.

I'm still new, so is there something I should have done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I agree. I think it will be earth first simply due to technology. As an example, capturing carbon right out of the atmosphere is a technology we have now.

The downside is it's very power intensive, but it often happens in some countries that there are more power generation than needed from renewables. And if we figure out fusion power then we clean electricity for milennia.

So cleaning up earth will have to happen within the coming 100 years. Maybe in that timeframe we will have a permanent base in mars under a dome or underground. But true terraforming of Mars is many centuries out I believe. Just my thoughts on the matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, not really. Mars has a very weak magnetosphere, so you need shielding against radiation. Also there is no atmosphere and any atmosphere we put on mars will quickly (in a geological timescale) get blown away by the charged solar winds because there is no magnetic field. So it's an immense task, and probably a few hundred years out before we have the technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@hedge, you're asking if we should terraform Mars if we haven't already cleaned up this this planet. It's a good question but I don't see a problem here.

Let me borrow a quote from Isaac Arthur, youtuber and president of the National Space Society(in USA), and I'm paraphrasing him: If we have the technology to truly terraform Mars, then lot of that technology will already have been used to stabilize the climate on earth. It's by orders of magnitude easier to "fix" Earth, than make Mars habitable to humans without the need for Domes, or spacesuits to breathe outside.

So to continue the "cleanup" analogy, it's like cleaning up the worst nuclear disaster (Chernobyl ) vs cleaning a few drops of water off your kitchen floor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think it has any effect beyond showing other people appreciated the post. And I've read somewhere around here on this site, that not having "karma" associated with each account help prevents bot and faming accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So they are basically saying they would like to live under the regime of Stalin back in the day(or a modern analog). A society where it didn't matter how left your were, or how correct you had been living all your life. If you were "in the way" for someone important with connections you and maybe your entire familie goes to the gulag.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think your guys are doing a very good job. I think most people will understand it takes time to build a platform like this. Excited to see what it turns into over the years ahead.

Edit: spelling/autocorrect mistake

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sorry. Don't know why this happened, if you open up the original post it opens with paragraphs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope x-post (should we call it that here?) is allowed. for some reason the formatting got messed up.

While I do agree with him on many things, it's not all up to one user, or 10. If 10 people with very different interest just stay in each community there there's no content for anyone. I think any new 'service' need some time to take hold. Of course user gained is a win. But then again it's not up to a single user

Edit: added my opinoin

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You can also do a site search on google, I guess the problem remain that you have do this for every server.

"site:beehaw.org"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I must say I had forgotten about this one. I checked the biggest car buying website in my country and there only 3 for sale. But I'm sure it's a fun little runabout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm new to daily driving Linux. I've dabbled with Linux for years, but never used it that much until I installed it on a new m.2 drive on my main PC. Been using Arch for a little over 1 month now.

I can understand your tired of tinkering, I came from windows where I was tired of fighting the OS to do what I want. So in that regard I use the same "energy" but instead of fighting windows I'm learning and getting better and building and customizing my Linux install exactly how I like it.

As for other suggestions I don't mind macOS, but their hardware screams planned obsolescence. they charge obscene amounts for a few gigabytes extra of SSD. I checked just now and they charge 259euro in my country to go from 256GB to 512GB. And I bought 2TB Samsung 980 pro NVME m.2 drive for 120euro a month ago.

Windows is probably the worst OS, but you can install software that rips out all the built in spyware. And you get keys around the web for cheap. This way you can keep your PC, and the next time you get a new PC you can buy one you are reasonably certain will work well on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And unlike Chlamydia I'm not having nearly as much fun getting it.

 

A bit too often taking part in discussions on Reddit was just mentally draining. Initially the topic looks so promising and I would love to discuss it. But too often people were not interested in sharing ideas beyond their own opinion, and many people were obsessed with "winning" the discussion.

Trying so discuss the finer points back and forth in a satisfying way was a rare occasion. Even In not so big subreddits you would think were filled with like minded people this was difficult. and comments were trying to end the discussion instead of coming with an idea and trying to further it.

How can we all promote good discussion on this site or the wider fediverse?

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