hmm yeah i see where you are coming from. the thing with "poisoning the well" is a real issue, and i'm wondering what strategies would be effective in preventing it? eventually a free discussion platform is needed, but it has to let the spirit flow freely or we're never getting anywhere. things only happen when people feel like it, and you can't force people to feel something.
i have also written here about how mastodon is more user-centric (because you follow users) while lemmy is more topic-centered (because you follow topic-oriented communities).
now i conjecture that maybe mastodon is more closely appropriate for location-specific content? because you can have one mastodon instance per city, to see all the stuff there (all contributing users) in a wild, mixed feed. and as is usual in a city, you might have specific people that you know well that you would like to hear more stuff from. meanwhile on lemmy, emphasizing individual users is a bit more difficult and less easy to do.
so i'm wondering whether there's a correlation between user-centricism and location-centricism, versus topic-centricism.
this might be an abstract thought but idk whether you can understand it?
uh i get what you mean, but that has mostly to do with the users here, and not technically with the software itself. although the (well-written) lemmy software surely encourages nice users to come here :)
theoretically, the thing that should happen as europe imports more from china than it exports to china, is that there's a net flux of currency into china, which would devalue the euro and inflate the yuan. this should increase price levels in china while also lowering them in europe, until production capabilities can shift back to europe.
renewable energy took a long time to take off because the cost of it had to fall low enough first, which can only happen through substantial subsidies, which only germany and china were willing to do. germany cancelled the project sometime around 2012 while china pulled all the way through.
the best recipes have no more than 3 ingredients, and the instruction is literally to just mix them cold. if you have to heat some up, do not use more than 1 pan.
at some point we will give a name of this phenomenon of internet users who are completely undecipherable for normal people ... and call it autism (/hj)
uhh, the bots are requesting multiple sites in parallel, not in series, so it's difficult to say "hey look, that user moves through 5 pages per second". instead, you'd say "hey look, there's 5 users each crawling through 1 page per second".
today i learned - for stuff that you learned todayshowerthoughts - for stuff that you spontaneously thought of (non-political)uhm ... all the transfem communities?
oh and what makes them special: you can learn new things easily :p so it's like "microdosing knowledge"
everybody knows that you can't trust wikipedia for topics where a third-party might profit from manipulating what's written in the article, such as a company brand might remove criticism from its page. this is basic knowledge i think (or at least i hope)
hmm yeah i see where you are coming from. the thing with "poisoning the well" is a real issue, and i'm wondering what strategies would be effective in preventing it? eventually a free discussion platform is needed, but it has to let the spirit flow freely or we're never getting anywhere. things only happen when people feel like it, and you can't force people to feel something.