RickRussell_CA

Zach Sherwin Kicks It Old School

if the choice is nuclear or carbon I’ll take nuclear

I’m totally with you on that.

My response:

Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.

I am persistently mystified that so many people – many calling themselves “green” or environmentalist – consider this a solved problem.

Spent nuclear fuel piles up in retaining pools at nuclear reactor sites, and we can’t take it anywhere because nobody can figure out where to put it. Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.

Meanwhile, solar and wind – for all of their problems – can meet large portions of our energy needs RIGHT NOW with minimal capital outlay to install new capacity.

you’d like it better over there full-time

The passive-aggressive version of “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out”.

Or… just let people live with their multiple personalities. It’s not like people didn’t have alt accounts on Reddit specifically so they could talk about stuff in a way that wouldn’t reflect on their primary account.

As long as people behave appropriately on an instance, it’s nobody else’s business what they do on other instances with different accounts.

“Decline in overall quality” is a subjective metric, though. Does defederation reduce participation? Certainly.

But ya know, there’s a reason people defederate certain instances – usually because those instances have attracted people who are disruptive to discussion on other instances.

It’s really been no problem at all for me to keep a foot in lemmy.world, kbin.social, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org. And a few other instances that appeal to more niche audiences.

And if I really feel like discussion on an instance is offering something and I’m missing out, I can always get an account there.

Not that I’m arguing against better moderation tools, of course. By all means, lemmy devs should prioritize those as soon as scaling/stability issues are dealt with.

I could totally see the Federation getting involved in a war with the best intentions, believing that they need to act to prevent a powerful, implacable faction from gaining the upper hand and tipping the balance of power across many star systems & potentially exterminating/enslaving multiple less advanced civilizations, say along a Federation border.

And the whole thing starts going sideways, and the Feds won’t commit fully to the effort but a dedicated faction of true believers keeps it going on a shoestring.

I need you to explain that with a simple analogy.

My main concern is the long-term cost of compute and storage. These instances aren’t going to be free, and hopefully we can build a funding model that works.

Everybody knows AI is evil.

I guess I never used Twitter as “intended”. I always just cultivated my follow list and watched the people I was following, and looked at the ppl they were replying to & retweeting to identify new people to follow.

For me, Mastodon has been much the same.