Not that it’s a competition, but we have 1.2 million hectares burned in British Columbia this year, vs. the 180 thousand for all of EU. I just found the scale remarkable. We just have so much less dense population in BC that the number of people affected in the EU is drastically different. Stay safe everyone.
Watch your cornhole, bud
My guess is someone at the credit card company screwed up. May have even been someone new.
My thoughts are that the title should be relevant.
My “Subscribed” “Hot” currently has 3 items from today and then gets into stuff from months ago.
Seems completely broken to me.
I don’t know how, but Lemmy is the least confusing to use application within the Fediverse.
I’ve only used Lemmy and this is a scary thought.
I know some people don’t want it anyway, but if there is ever going to be a mass exodus from the corporations to the fediverse, fediverse needs to seriously work on the sign up process. And can’t threaten defederation every 5 minutes, which probably means they need proper modding tools/features.
Not enough grapes
Is it a reservoir? If it’s a man-made reservoir you are not expecting or desiring it to become a natural ecosystem. Your primary goals are to keep the water there and keep it clean.
Interesting, thanks for the info.
But it’s not meant to be a natural ecosystem where you’re trying to protect it.
If you don’t mind me asking, what are your costs for running an instance?
Thinking more about this as I respond to other people… Another good thing might be to present some of the most active communities on different instances. It would give people something more concrete to entice them into the ecosystem then the abstract “join this server that’s aspiring to be a safe space.” What does that even mean?
I also feel like new users (me) will get intimidated by having to choose a server, without knowing what it means. Are you stepping into a walled garden? Does the server you’re on matter? If it does, why? How do I choose where I should join? I think there is too much choice and not enough pertinent info for a new user.
Just think about it from the point of view of someone migrating from a site with millions of users. Someone recommends a new place where a lot of people are going so you follow their advice. You go to join this new site, and the first thing you see is that there are maybe 2000 active users. Along with this very low number you’re being presented with a whole bunch of abstract ideas and terminology you don’t understand. What are you likely to do. For me, a somewhat tech savvy person, I turned around and went back to Reddit. It was too confusing and too nascent to even give it a chance. It feels like too much effort to be a very early adopter of what looks initially like an untested, and frankly empty, new system.
I like the other idea of not showing numbers at all. Just tell people if things are active or not. You don’t need to know specific numbers of users when you’re joining.
Edit to add: if Lemmy isn’t ready to grow more than 10x in the next month, then people should stop directing redditors here. A lot of people are looking for somewhere to go right now.
I’m new here and I’m not sure how I’d know about bans. I didn’t actually know anything about the stuff you’ve mentioned in this thread!
This is a great idea!
This might be an issue with the image host. When I initially clicked the link to the picture I got a browser error that the page couldn’t be loaded. I tried a second time and it worked.
Edit to add: it also didn’t show up in the comment body initially, but it is working now.
But as I mentioned above I don’t think there should be much of an environmental impact. Man-made reservoirs are not usually aquatic ecosystems, so it shouldn’t be a factor. Unfortunately, I haven’t really found any info to back that statement up.
They do mention that the water helps cool the solar panels. There’s a math problem here… Solar energy converted by water directly vs with solar panels, etc etc.
https://youtu.be/QfbcvAK2_7w?si=s-cjR1FzT8VbxAAp