krayj

I keep half a dozen of my own chickens in my backyard...which means about half my daily protein intake comes from eggs (which is a great source, btw). And my chickens free-range in my backyard and largely take care of and feed themselves (supplemented with chicken feed but they get most of their daily intake from the bugs/plants in the yard). I still do eat meat almost daily, but the quantities are a lot less than what I was doing a decade ago, and beef is less than a once-a-week thing for me. Like you, I'm trying to get back in shape and watching macronutrients (like protein) very carefully and trying to hit certain daily minimum numbers.

This crucially important caveat they snuck in there:

"Prof Scarborough said: “Cherry-picking data on high-impact, plant-based food or low-impact meat can obscure the clear relationship between animal-based foods and the environment."

...which is an interesting way of saying that lines get blurry depending on the type of meat diet people had and/or the quantity vs the type of plant-based diet people had.

Takeaway from the article shouldn't be meat=bad and vegan=good - the takeaway should be that meat can be an environmentally responsible part of a reasonable diet if done right and that it's also possible for vegan diets to be more environmentally irresponsible.

I have noticed the decline. Current ChatGPT is making significantly more factual errors now than it did in the past.

Did you create the attached photo? If so, then I disagree with most of your labeling...and call some of it into question as outright denial of reality.

The world cannot be all puppies and unicorns. But, if that's what you need it to be, there are communities that will serve that purpose and all you need to do is subscribe to those and only browse subscribed.

Do you normally browse all? I just browse subscribed - and this isn't a problem for me. "All" is a measure of what's popular, and porn is popular.

At least it would be pretty easy to test out.

I recommend the android client "Liftoff" because of the amazingly useful "nerd stuff" menu item for posts. After actioning on "nerd stuff" for a post, choose "tap to show" post details and you can see the under-the-hood nsfw flag setting for that specific post.

It seems that you believe that just because Lemmy is federated

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that because federation is a two-way street and can ben enabled or disabled between any two instances, it will always be possible to have instances that are unaffected by threads. Certainly, some instances will choose not to federate with threads - and so there will always be the possibility to join a community (or create one) that shuts itself off from that influence. Take beehaw.org for example - they didn't like the influence lemmy.world had on their community so they defederated. They are no longer influenced by lemmy.world. The point I am trying to make is that because of that fact (that possibility), there is no reason at all to desire to limit the total scope (userbase) of all of lemmy. If you want a private/closed community, then make one or join one - you don't need to suppress everyone just to achieve your own personal goals for a community.

You are young it sounds like.

No. But it's humorous to me that you immediately go there for anyone who disagrees with your take. I'm >5 decades.

If Lemmy becomes that size, all good things about it goes away, and we get ads and corporations moving in to profit from it. That turns the entire thing into the same shit as everything else.

Sounds like massive speculation. Especially for an open platform system that anyone can self-host. If you don't like ads or paying for service, light up your own instance and self host. That is, by definition, why lemmy works the way lemmy works. I hate to accuse you of making shit up, but you are making shit up.

It happens over and over and over again in tech. It’s a pattern that all older people knows about because we have lived it.

I've probably lived through more of this than you have. I've made my career in the tech industry and have been at it since 1991. Again, you keep trying to imply that you somehow have more experience or more time in industry just because I disagree with you. That's awfully pretentious.

So I hope Lemmy stays small. Bigger than now, sure, but not big enough to attract corporations.

That's elitist. And it's self-defeating. Sounds like you'd be happy just joining a few email list servers...because you aren't going to get any more value than that out of the self-inflicted handicap of keeping community sizes tiny.

You seem to have equated what you think is superior age and experience with superior wisdom. You're wrong on multiple counts and committing numerous logical fallacies while you're at it. Larger platforms are more successful because they have the community sizes needed to make even niche topics relatively engaging. There's a critical mass of users needed to make that happen. Lemmy is a few orders of magnitude too small for that yet, but that's what it will take to be a viable alternative. I'm not suggesting that Lemmy should get so big that it causes places like Reddit to disappear...just that it gets big enough to be a viable alternative. If it's not big enough to be a viable alternative, then what's the point? To just be an elitist circle jerk for for a few people discussing a few popular topics somewhere outside the mainstream so they can think they are some kind of techno-hipsters? What a waste.

I have run across two or three instances of federated content from LemmyNSFW not correctly showing up as being tagged nsfw when viewed from Lemmy.world. The one time I actually did some investigation, I found the post was correctly tagged as nsfw when browsing LemmyNSFW directly.

My assumption was that the post might have been created without the tag, but was edited to include the tag later, but that the edit may not have replicated across federation. Maybe if no other content is changed it doesn't correctly populate the edited tag? Just a guess.

As a moderator, you should have at least one additional non-moderator account you can log in with to see what things look like from the perspective of a non-moderator. Highly recommended.

That's very insightful. I still don't think that qualifies as being 'public', but given a malicious instance operator they could be exposed if that post is accurate.

I'm imagining the tv from Idiocracy.