JTheDoc

assonance

My excuse when I can't rhyme or rap from now on ;)

Don't know why you were downvoted, it's true. I don't believe in fossil fuels being burned either, but you may as well reach the same goal by improving what otherwise isn't realistic to entirely remove. We won't get anywhere without compromises, and we should continue to try to invest in cleaner energy, even if that means improving the existing dirty energy.

This works for nuclear too, and possibly thermal energy plants.

If we invested in nuclear and the public were actually properly educated without all the scary media scorn on it, we would have invested without so much resistance and be in a MUCH better place by now as it would have taken coal and gas off the grid. Here in the UK we have excellent renewable opportunities for wind, but we didn't invest enough, nor did we invest enough in our own nuclear. When the pandemic hit, and the oil gas crisis happened, we were using 50-60% of our energy from GAS. We can't turn them off or we'll have brownouts, so it's an uphill battle to get rid of our dependency.

Because our government didn't invest in nuclear or wind or solar, and they didn't put pressure on private energy companies to use alternatives, all the country got hit with enormous gas and electric prices. We sowed our own fate by not protecting the environment and pioneering alternative energy, and now our wallets finally pay the full price.

Saying that, the oil gas companies are minted now... Maybe we should punish the energy companies for not meeting their goals or promises, and for not taking responsibility for investing. You'd think taxes, but or Tory government wouldn't want to harm their best pals in the energy business. Screw the government for that one. My bills are killing me.

These small improvements help still.

That's the thing, we all have to compromise. I don't support it either, but if something unethical happens, and people still want to keep supporting it, we have to at least convince them to use the "best version" of said thing so it's at least as humane as we can make it possibly be. I'm shocked we still continue to use these complicated and ancient methods of execution that have questionable reliability or ethics when it comes to suffering.

It'd be interesting to see how it would be used for AS for sure!

I think I was partially addicted after having used it routinely out of boredom and free time for over a decade...

But once RIF and the other 3rd party apps got strangled out, and RES went into a state of no longer being updated, I couldn't power use Reddit anymore. So once those were uninstalled and removed, I had given myself no choice. Out of principle I couldn't support them and how they treated their mods or communities, nor could I use the site in their epically stupid vanilla default way, I had to just quit.

Cold turkey since.

Will admit, I have to search online for technical help, and a lot of discussion did and still does happen on Reddit, so I'll still occasionally have to use the site for reference. But no interacting with it at all.

I still feel the twitches and urges to use it from so many years of habit, and it's difficult, but I've managed to do it.

Shame there's not as many people so inclined to use Reddit just a little less, doesn't even need to be cold turkey; it WOULD make a difference. But there's nothing wrong with using it, and you shouldn't be judged for it either. It's fine to be anti Reddit, but not anti user... in most cases ha ha! I'm pro voice and choice! ;D

I'm trying to use this as an alternative, and out of necessity as content does run thin sometimes on Lemmy I do end up using it less than I did with Reddit. But that's healthy for me personally.

There's less pressure and competitiveness on here for me, so I try to post better quality comments/content than I may have used to on Reddit. When Lemmy isn't down or breaking my comment/post submissions I'll have a better time engaging with the site, I don't find myself rushing to comment before 400 irrelevant (sometimes one word) comments wash it away and bury it like on Reddit. I don't find myself writing half a comment, and then deciding to quit half way as much.

Plus, people engage with posts and see them much longer than on Reddit, usually after a single day their posts would be entirely dead; guess it's mostly due to less users at this point though.

Waiter stares at you waiting for you to return the tablet the entire time you all decide to order

"Look at this sociopath"

Do we have any user base statistics for the average age of users for Lemmy compared to the ever growing younger user base of Reddit? (Which isn't necessarily always a bad thing, I love inclusiveness). I can't recall being asked to put in my birthday/age when signing up. (I'm just being genuinely dumb, I would usually just look up this stuff myself but I have to rush this comment, sorry!)

People don't seem as flippant on Lemmy which is fortunate.

I have generally had a better experience when it comes to interaction on here, but I do think there's frequently degrading comments towards Reddit users, especially ones starting out and posting content directly from Reddit. I think it's all usually well intentioned though, they're looking for alternatives, and they wish to get involved and add content. Eventually Lemmy will become more self sufficient when it comes to unique comments or memes for example, but there's a lot of growing pains to get there.

You are definitely right that it's not that common an occurrence on the other instances. But yes, I should have clarified these issues are with lemmy.world.

That doesn't mean someone isn't going to pull those up to reprimand you, or monitor your work.

There's privacy from personal things, then there's overbearing micro management who will literally track "Mouse hovering" and "Keyboard Idle Time" or how long you take to write an email.

Amingst the other creative ways they can try to keep you at a level "non promotable" status or whatever leverage to control you.

I've never had to suffer from it, I do my job, but as a systems admin/engineer for over 15 years, I've definitely worked at places that implemented it at our expense, or we had to set it up for our clients using it against their own staff.

Don't forget the agents they install that take screenshots every 10 seconds!