It depends, silphium was potentially an effective contraceptive that was harvested to extinction.

Using Jerboa I get infinite scroll and a more usable layout. The website works ok, but there’s lots of room for improvement.

All the stuff at the top on lemmy web page gets turned into buttons on the top and bottom of my phone that I don’t have to scroll up for. Vote buttons are big enough to hit easily. Titles flow on top of Images so I see more than a thumbnail without tapping.

Something they might do isn’t worth worrying about. They don’t have any means to actually commit genocide on an organized scale. You lose credibility when you overreact or overstate reality.

They also don’t understand that protecting rights usually means defending awful people being awful. Rights are meaningless if only the right people get them.

Your problem is comparing Hitler’s holocaust to anything self proclaimed nazis do today. It’s far more effective to just ridicule the handful of them instead of trying to be violent.

Paying taxes is voluntary, filing isn’t. At least for the US.

It was written to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon, which was kind of a big deal.

Muskrat was classified as non meat for Catholics, so some people ate it, but anyone I know who did is dead now.

Twitch would need a lot of work to make videos more first class citizens, that is probably more the reason than storage costs. They have Amazon backing them now with basically unlimited storage potential.

YouTube probably isn’t worried about open source competition, but Twitch could be a real competitor. Twitch already captured a large chunk of gaming, especially the live streams.

Especially in contrast to the US who completely stopped pretending to support consumers.

Cross instance communities or a way to stich these places together better needs to happen though. Splinter groups making their own community is fine, but there needs to be some main communities for things.

It’s not just a make it more like reddit need. If lemmy.world decides to defederate like beehaw (or goes down), then all that content is gone from lots of other people, and the fediverse as a whole loses. If there exists a way to blend communities, then maybe people only notice less posts on memes rather than just an empty void.

It’s also a huge discovery problem, some people are going to think there isn’t an active NSQ community, and maybe try making yet another, because the didn’t find the one active community. It’s also possible that there’s 5-10 small/tiny- communities that could become a single thriving community of they were able to actually discover and coordinate with each other.

This us why developed nations have service based economies. Physical resources aren’t a constraint.

Unless there’s an easy way to migrate a community to another instance, half of those will just go dark in a year or two when the admin gets bored. It’s also going to make updates suck when a breaking change happens and you have a month of admins getting around to updating.

You left out the 20% or so chance the subscribe button just doesn’t work. Also the 30% chance you find a community with 1 active user and less than 5 posts total, none of which point to a functioning community with a slightly different name.

You have to remember the fuck cars crowd lives in temperate dense cities and rarely leaves the area for anything rural. They just want everyone to have their preferred lifestyle.

Not only that, but getting a mortgage before credit scores sucked. It’s never been easier to get money other than the ninja loans in the 2008 mortgage crash. Loans were only a thing for white people with bosses that liked them, or high status jobs like doctors and lawyers.

Iatse got little more than thoughts and prayers from writers and actors during their almost strike a couple years ago.

That’s why the concept of food chain is phased out in favor of food webs which can more accurately model relationships.

English exceptions aren’t so bad, you just need to know that there’s a ton of loan words, what their origin was, when it was anglicized, and which country’s preferred version you’re learning. If it’s not a loan word it’s either standard or somewhat re-latined to maintain class hierarchy.

Bakers dozens are more about legal protection than anything. An extra loaf of bread is a lot easier to give away, than taking a beating in medieval times for shorting someone.

It’s mostly just people like to attack conversions no one really does. Even with it’s nice easy conversions, the average person isn’t going to tell you how many nanometers are in a megameter, which isn’t qualitatively different than barleycorns in a league.

Science also just invents new units of measure when it’s convenient, light years, parsecs, astronomical units, moles, etc.

And I’m betting the site is also riddled with adds to the point you can barely read an article in the first place.

You also have to balance the ability to get shit done makes a language more widely used, see perl. Eventually things also need to get modified, so languages that are easy to follow become popular, see perl losing popularity.

Pure OOP is now archaic, but the principles are still used. More modern OOP languages incorporate functional programming concepts and are more of a hybrid. C# is probably the best example of a language with strong OOP and good functional support. Java is also heading that way slowly.

Functional programming is gaining steam again, but in its pure form, it’s not as useful in many domains. A hybrid approach of take all the best ideas and use whatever fits best with the problem at hand is going to become the next paradigm, but I don’t think it has a name.

Not sure if jpeg or that just the best phone cameras could do back then.

A big part of this is moving everything online, it makes the available pool too wide and doesn’t allow for things to be forgotten as easily. Meeting people in person allows the awkward stuff to be forgotten and the highlights remembered. It can still go terribly wrong, but there was more meaningful interaction.

Weirdly the right amount of axe is probably attractive to most women within 50 meters, you just need to be about 1 meter away at the time.

All is based on every community that someone subscribed to on an instance, so smaller instances generally have less communities.

Not really once you have an account. During the protest lemmy.world and ml were basically unusable though, but either they scaled or people left the servers.

It would be garbage to watch random people do these events. The only entertainment would be watching people like me almost kill themselves pole vaulting or something.

Another big part is stitching communities back together. There are like 10 popular memes communities that have 99% the same content, I don’t need to see the same post that many times in my feed.

There sort of is, at least I think I get that with Jerboa, but I believe it’s only federated communities someone has subscribed to, which is most but not quite all.

Lemmy desperately needs to up the user friendliness of the system, which is incredibly hard. It’s hard to encourage people to switch when the effort to get a somewhat working feed is so high.

It’s called hot.

In my experience, pet friendly generally means older hotels in need of renovation, where any additional mess isn’t as noticeable. Still decent if you just want a place to sleep.

The only use case for crypto is facilitating illegal activity, so I’ll pass on it ever being a feature.

Fediverse is to lemmy/kbin/mastodon what reddit is to reddit or meta to Facebook/Instagram/threads.

Commit multiple felonies with this simple life hack.

Down votes are and always will be “I don’t like this thing.” Any attempts to make it mean more will always devolve back to this.