So, in many places somewhat less than inflation. This does not seem to be the dominant media narrative.

Interesting.

instance migration (Lemmy instance could become a Piefed instance)

So 2 possibilities: a Lemmy community could migrate to a Piefed server, or a Lemmy server could become a Piefed server.

Makes sense that both should be possible. As I understand it, both fit the forum paradigm (or whatever the term is) of ActivityPub.

What’s important to me (and I’d argue for the fediverse too) is that we limit the amount of fragmentation and splintering and forking and egos in all this.

Interesting, thanks.

I think it will be a very interesting day when communities can move instances (I believe that is being worked on)

Including from Lemmy to Piefed?

IMO, Piefed has the potential to be much more “sticky” than Lemmy.

Why, and when should I expect all my Lemmy posts to disappear into the ethereal dustbin of history? (Serious question on both counts.)

Price: 1200 € of which I got rebated 400 (!) by Paris regional government as part of their effort to bribe people to get on bikes.

Distance per charge: yesterday I did 75km with 1000m of uphill. That was a big day, too much, but I arrived with 2 bars of battery left. Basically by limiting the power level to 1/5. That means the motor targets about 15 km/h. In theory you just have to turn the pedals, in practice you have to help quite a lot on hills.

Time to charge: 4 hours or so.

Paniers: none, it’s literally a single backpack that I’ve bungeed to the rack. Very practical, this is always the way I’ve done touring and here it’s even better since the smallish wheels help to lower the center of gravity.

Seat: heavily cushioned! Significantly more comfortable than a standard bike but I suspect the real difference is made by the double (front and rear) suspension. I’ve done touring on a recumbent, this is not as comfortable as that (impossible!) but definitely much better than a normal touring bike. I was skeptical about that and it’s a pleasant surprise.

Water resistance is fine, I’ve ridden in driving rain without issues.

The one issue I’ve had (in 3000km!) is with the cadence sensor. It began to wobble, which caused the motor to cut out intermittently, very annoying indeed. Once I worked out what was going on, I fixed it (with tape!) and all was good again.

The danger of retaining one’s purity is that you risk forfeiting influence over what may (very well) happen anyway.

Predictably insightful.

multiple groups that prioritize different paired corners of this people-information-scale triangle

Fact remains that we’re struggling mainly with the scale corner here.

Not caused by that or even correlated. Correct answer is in other comments.

Good exposition of the problem.

Not bad but might apply more to liberalism IMO. I think the word “accepting” (of change) is doing a lot of work when you consider revolutionary communism, whose whole mission is to force change at any cost.

The left-right dichotomy is almost completely useless IMO. “Almost” because for some mysterious reason everybody can situation themself on it. I think it’s more about identity than anything else. Football teams.

My mental model of the right-left dichotomy:

• “right” = cynical + evil
• “left” = good + naive

Anything more complex and the labels hit their limits.

If praying worked we would know by now.

An unusually clear explanatory article. This problem needs fixing. As a layperson it looks to me like the “discussion” mentioned needs to crystallize into a proper meeting of all stakeholders so as to get a binding decision about how to fix it.

Unintentional ambiguous image? The rock is a turban, the bottom ankle is a chin.

People will bang on about it being a water displacer. Know what else displaces water? Oil. Grease. Pretty much anything else that doesn’t mix with water.

Glad to see I’m not going mad. “Water displacer”? Any oil is a water displacer duh.

As for being a degreaser, like dissolves like. Non-polar chemicals like oil and grease are generally miscible in other non-polar substances, so a lighter oil will help to thin out thicker grease so that they’re easier to clean away.

This was my hypothesis but you put it in impressively fancy terms so it must be right.

The stuff about other solvents makes sense too. Really helpful feedback, thanks.

Thanks for the tips.

This is the attitude I’m talking about… Please re-read, there is nothing for me to be “objectively wrong” about because I did not make any claim. I asked a question because I wanted to understand better. Others helped me to do so, as did you (after presumably downvoting me). This kind of ungenerous attitude is one reason why social media has such a toxic reputation.

Maybe try Mantel or Bike24?

Helpful thanks.

Useful, thanks.

Very useful, thanks.