He did something wrong. But the vitriolic, puerile response to this whole episode, coming from all directions, confirms his overarching argument beyond any doubt.

The fediverse is a place that harbors a disproportionate number of misanthropes and people who have struggled in their personal lives for a variety of reasons. And I have always hoped that could become a strength of ours, but I have come to realize that an internet forum is not a venue that is conducive to healing broken people. Instead, it seems to amplify their toxicity in the vast majority of cases. Based on the behavior I have observed, which has continued to worsen over the years, this platform will perhaps never succeed in its objectives. It seems that it would require an act of god at this point.

The brief period after the APIcalypse seems like a distant dream now. There are still many fine people here who are doing their best, but the majority of emotionally stable, casual users have steadily, silently abandoned this sinking ship over the years. And it shows. Taking glee in another person’s pain and downfall is not the behavior of a mature, emotionally well adjusted adult. We clearly have precious few of those remaining on this platform. Perhaps that is also the case for our society in general, to be fair.

I’m not the type to quit, but I just can’t find much enjoyment in coming here anymore. Thanks to the open ended format of the network, there will always be hope. But it’s incredibly exhausting to watch users chase away and harass anyone and everyone who plays any sort of productive role in the development and/or administration of the platform. Not only are they doing it for free, but they also have to deal with a peanut gallery of cackling hyenas, just waiting for any opportunity to desecrate their corpse. What a sad state of affairs.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/

The main problem with gravitational storage is that it is incredibly weak compared to chemical, compressed air, or flywheel techniques (see the post on home energy storage options). For example, to get the amount of energy stored in a single AA battery, we would have to lift 100 kg (220 lb) 10 m (33 ft) to match it. To match the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, we would have to lift 13 tons of water (3500 gallons) one kilometer high (3,280 feet). It is clear that the energy density of gravitational storage is severely disadvantaged.

It seems the problem is not necessarily one of conversion efficiency, but rather of scale. In order to store significant amounts of electrical energy using mechanical means, you need to move a lot of weight. Manufacturing the concrete blocks requires money and raw materials, and a pulley system robust enough to move them around wouldn’t be cheap either. The pumped storage hydroelectric systems which currently provide the vast majority of our grid energy storage partially circumvent this expense by taking advantage of natural bodies of water and advantageous topography.

That being said, it’s definitely a fascinating concept and one worth exploring. But there are well established difficulties that explain why this type of energy storage isn’t already widespread.

Censorship is always going to exist to some extent, but Lemmy has the potential to balance it out because there is no central authority. So you could have censorship of different stuff on different servers, but if you take the network as a whole you would still get a diversity of information.

I remember everybody celebrating Luigi the whole time, I guess some mods and admins were wary of threats of violence being hosted on their servers but overall it’s impossible to criticize Luigi on this platform without getting heavily downvoted, and celebrating him is free upvotes.

So I feel like you’re being pretty overdramatic and also not really accurate with this comment.

Future cyberpunk dystopias be like

I’m not so sure they want to “persuade the leftists”, I think they probably just want to find other conservatives to validate their feelings. But there isn’t any space for that on Lemmy atm.

They’ll probably need to make their own servers, which will immediately get defederated en masse. But I think Lemmy should be for every human being who seeks knowledge, even conservatives. That doesn’t mean we need to federate with them, but that’s the nature of open source software. You can’t pick and choose who uses it.

I just try to avoid it entirely. Every post gets heavily downvoted anyway because conservatives are totally outnumbered on Lemmy. So it’s mostly people mocking them.

I feel like it’s so confusing if you just see the comments without the posts. But also the comments are the best part of Lemmy so it kinda makes sense.

I’m already addicted to Lemmy so that’s not an issue

Wow. I never even noticed that option before. That’s actually pretty cool.

But kind of sounds like a bug in that case, because if the admins wanted to remove the community then it shouldn’t be possible to view comments from there either.

If you can’t see the community itself, then how are you seeing comments?

When you view people’s profiles?

Pretty sure that’s been a thing for a while. It’s like when lemmy.world blocked !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. They are still federated but they just blocked that one community.

I assume that’s what lemmy.ml is doing with the conservative community.

In my experience most internet spaces that specifically cater to teenagers also tend to attract a lot of creeps. I think it’s probably for the best to nominally limit Lemmy to adults only, especially at this early stage.

You’re assuming that a centenarian couldn’t set up a Lemmy server? That’s ageism 😅

He was an all time great baseball player. Aside from that I don’t really care too much about him as a person.

But since you’re asking, he just seems hard headed and grumpy, and the allegations of being a major racist seem mainly based on discredited biographies from 50+ years ago.

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Bruh

Aside from the very valid points that others have already made, I have some input.

First of all, I do agree that there should be a maximum age limit for positions of great power. But it should be like 80 or 85 years old imo, so it wouldn’t really change much.

Older people are actually far more concerned about the future than younger people in many ways, usually because of their experience and their children. Whereas younger people don’t quite grasp how critical our actions are in shaping the future.

Secondly, and tangentially, I wouldn’t be so sure that Gen Z will ever be a dominant political faction. Similarly to how Gen X was basically steamrolled by the baby Boomers, Gen Z is likely to be the victim of millennial elites. Gen Z is a smaller cohort than millennials, partially due to declining birth rates but also due to the ripple effect.

There were a fuck ton of baby Boomers (1946-1964) due to high birth rates, and most of their kids were millennials (1981-1998). Conversely, there were much fewer GenX kids (65-80), partially because many of their potential parents were killed in wars and also because of rapidly declining birth rates. This demographic reality has spilled down to Gen Z, which is less numerous as well.

Then you’re also going to have to deal with Generation alpha right behind you, who are largely the children of millennials and have grown up in a chaotic environment. Who knows how the fuck they’re going to turn out.

So yeah, good luck wresting political control from the millennials, because it’s unlikely at best.

Well said

I appreciate the openness but it’s almost certainly a matter of time.

Keep your finger on the lock button. It’s somewhat underutilized on Lemmy imo, simply locking a post that has devolved into a shitshow without removing said post is frequently the best course of action.

Heh, you old af. My condolences.

But at least that’s a nice round number.

Bro… this is a fucking wild comment I hope it’s satirical.

Lol I’m pretty shaky on the details too, but I definitely think there’s some really good ideas in there once you can parse all the philosophical lingo. I hadn’t even heard about the rhizome until you mentioned it, but it does seem like a useful concept for sure.