thepaperpilot

joined 1 year ago
[–] thepaperpilot 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was looking into hosting a threadiverse app previously and was interested in kbin because lemmy was dealing with the csam stuff at the time and I liked the idea of combining microblogging into the threadiverse app. My overall takeaway from kbin though was that it was too new / missing too many features I needed, and development was slow enough that it felt like I'd have to implement all I need myself. So a community fork of an already not super active repo sounds... Well, I'm not optimistic about it, at least.

[–] thepaperpilot 2 points 1 year ago

Really like how active photon development is! I plan on using it as the default frontend on my own lemmy instance, which is just waiting on SSO support (no timeline for that unfortunately, and I don't know any rust to help)

[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not new, but we are still defederated from world so I can't subscribe

[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine looking at a video where he explicitly states leftists have no desire to rule by violence, and repeating the tired comment that he's a tankie.

[–] thepaperpilot 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Beehaw moment 😔

[–] thepaperpilot 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well funnily enough I think that part, legally, is totally fine. There's nothing anti competitive about being in two unrelated industries, and I don't think there's a good case that aws is a monopoly. There are viable and cheaper alternatives like hetzner, aws is just popular but it's not manipulating the market

[–] thepaperpilot 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a really interesting article on how Amazon makes it money when prime is such a good deal for the consumers. I really hope Amazon gets broken up

[–] thepaperpilot 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

~~its a cataract~~

[–] thepaperpilot 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't assume you were a fan of suburbs, I just read your comment about cities being blights upon the earth and argued why I think suburbs are more blight-like.

The only assumption I made about you is that you'd appreciate an appeal to environmentalism, since you called earth our beautiful planet

[–] thepaperpilot 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a very fair point, and one I agree with. I also think it'd help to move away from capitalism though. Capitalism is the force that encourages so many companies to throw away excess food rather than give it away, because doing so would lower demand and be "bad for business". If we could just reduce our food waste that alone would do wonders in decreasing land use for farms, monoculture or otherwise.

I also think, over time the world should become more vegetarian. Even if you believe in food chains and that it's okay for us to eat meat in general, the farming of animals often in cartoonishly cruel conditions solely for our consumption is abhorrent. Moving from meat based diets to (at least mostly) plant based is a moral necessity, and on top of that will massively reduce emissions (15% comes from livestock), land use, and biodiversity loss

[–] thepaperpilot 1 points 1 year ago

What's the bad space? Based on them mentioning block lists, I'm guessing it's a community that gets blocked by a lot of instances?

Fwiw, I think it's totally fine for communities to defederate from other places en masse. The whole point of federation is for small, customized communities. If a community decides it doesn't want x or y, then that's fine. Individuals who no longer feel like they align with the community can find another or create their land.

[–] thepaperpilot 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Walkable cities produce less pollution per capita than suburban or rural areas due to less pollution from commutes and increased efficiency delivering utilities (due to the population density).

Suburban sprawl is what truly makes ugly stains on our word - concrete everywhere, destroying the watershed, with no native grass in the medians, and so many cars spewing out fumes, micro plastics, and disrupting migration patterns. They're depressing places to live.

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