mitchacho74

To your edit, most people aren't "defending meta" they're defending just not going scorched Earth before we have the facts, defederation can happen any day, why do it before we even see how it will be? I see no reason to exclude ourselves from millions of other users yet, yes meta is very concerning and should not be trusted, but what are we even trusting them with yet?? If they federate, nothing really changes to them, if we defederate, nothing changes for them.

My point is people are allowed to have different opinions than you, and one could say to you "why is every one of your comment history bashing expanding the fediverse". Just give it some time and see how it goes and we react from there, ruud and his team are just as much users of the fediverse as you, and will do their best when the time comes.

Because I support open source technologies, and support the idea of the fediverse. I like to be able to get content all in one space, or my friends being able to follow me without having to use the same platform. corporations hosting would be less than ideal, but if they help invest money into the fediverse and help it grow, I'm all for it. I can always leave their server if I don't want on it, and go back to how platforms like Mastodon or Lemmy are today. Either it stays how it is today, or we have a chance of hitting mainstream appeal and letting more people see it's benefits.

Like I hate meta just like alot of other people here, but I know Tumblr talked about adopting activityPub. Are they are "good company" or are all companies bad? What about valve supporting Linux gaming, they obviously benefit from helping it, but Linux gamers have gained a lot, are those actions bad as well? My point is, are you against them solely because they're "corporate social media" or are you against their practices in the past? I understand if it's the second one, because Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, are KNOWN to show content to keep people scrolling and interacting, to get ad money, for better or for worse. But The fediverse doesn't necessarily have that problem, especially with mastodon and lemmy. Thread may show ads to their users, but Lemmy and mastodon users will probably never get those. Basically federation with meta just provides more users/content to the platforms, not forcing everyone to switch to thread.

Also if you're just mad at the fact that Facebook is a company, Mastodon is owned by a (non-profit) company. A company is just made up of people, and it isn't hard for once community focused companies (like Linux distros like Ubuntu or redhat) to get corrupted over time, and defederating with meta ISNT going to prevent that

What? You do know that Lemmy is a platform, it's not just "lemmy.world", right? There are plenty of other instances that have already committed to defederate, so you wouldn't "have to find a new alternative", you just move to a different instance

Yeah they're saying they just gave it up. The thing is, I get wanting to be different from reddit, but over half of our users came from reddit, I miss using it at times, and many moved over solely to stick it to spez but don't have any fundamental problems with how reddit is setup. Obviously Lemmy improves on it in ways, but Lemmy can 100% use reddit as influence to grow.

If r/android is trying to move to Lemmy, most of this didn't really exist until people moved from reddit, yeah they should have moved eariler, but to me, c/android should be the spiritual successor to r/android, and while I'm ok with different mods, if the original subreddit just up and moved 1 to 1 to Lemmy, I wouldn't be upset, I probably would have done the exact same thing and gave the community to them, because they helped grow that community on Reddit and seemingly are willing to do it here too.

Basically ideas and pepper from reddit aren't bad solely because they came from reddit, not ALL outsiders are our enemies.

The thing is, each instance isn't supposed to have their own of each community, like the goal is to have communities spread all over the fediverse. Lemmy.world not having a c/android isn't a bad thing, because you can always connect to any other one.

The parking community name is a good point if it is against the rules but I feel like that rule is just designed to do exactly what you're looking for, having a version of each community on lemmy.world, defeating the whole point of the fediverse.

Lemmy really needs to figure out a way to group many smaller instances of the same topic into one, like a multi-reddit feature. That way people can subscribe to a topic and it will combine all posts from the smaller android communities without having to create more and continue fragmenting it

You can still access the other community on a different instance from world, you don't need a different login or anything

Isn't the whole point of Lemmy and the way communities work is if you want to moderate and don't like the way the existing one does it, then create your own? Like I get your point here but basically it sounds like the ones in charge of it said "oh we don't want to do this anymore". If they opened it and started it off, it sucks it's closed but a new one can always be reopened.

Unless you're looking to NOT do it that way, and have the admins help find new mods for any large community that decides to do something similar

That's crazy interesting, I've heard of district heating in places like new York, but I've never really thought of the same for cooling.

What's abit confusing though is ACs really just move heat from the cold end to a hot end. Normal ACs just blow out and heat the outside air abit, which is part of the problem district cooling is trying to solve, but if all they did was release the heat into the air, it wouldn't be any better.

Anyone got any idea what they do with the heat energy? My first thought was they could be using geothermal from dirt far below the city that's at like 50°F always, as some houses do, but I feel like they would be talking about "using the Earth's energy to cool our cities" if that was the case

I didn't even know it started, lots of games I've been interested in...

Can anyone recommend humankind? I've heard it's kinda like a civ knock off but I haven't heard much for or against it

Building off what the other guy said, you'll want to upgrade the hard drive when you can, I got the 64gb one and got two 500+ gb sd cards, but the shaders needed for the games can only be stored on the internal memory from what I've seen, and even having a few larger games installed has filled up the majority of my internal storage, to a point where I couldn't download updates for flatpacs or run some games due to so LITTLE storage. I'm going to look into upgrading my drive because it became such a problem for me

Oh great. Just giving religious people more power, if I worked with this man, I'd be claiming I need Sundays off too "due to my religion" when in reality I'd just be getting a guaranteed day off. Obviously that won't end well if abunch of people do it so idk why they're humouring this one guy

I forgot this game was a thing, a shame they spent all that time on the game, just to need to rewrite it in another language