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I question the design of this study. It seems that there was no control group with full-sized horses and donkeys.

I expect reddit will roll it out slowly and stop if they’re losing too many users. If they actually follow through and impose age “verification” on everyone it’ll be a bigger exodus than anything seen before — so they probably won’t.

It says that the prevalence of smoking has continued to decline, making the headline a little misleading. I suppose what they mean is that enough people still smoke that changing that is one more potential way to further increase life expectancy — but if they simply said that directly it wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Neat. But it’s not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.

The fediverse has become the central hub for it all due to its nature. Any forums or whatever which want to join in and be a part of it are free to do so. It could perhaps be made easier, but that depends on the technical details of the protocols involved which are still hard to understand.

People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn’t federate with it so I don’t see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it’s gotten worse. Not that it’s an “echo chamber” and I don’t mind hanging out with communists, but there’s too much low-quality noise.

Personally I wouldn’t block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.

Protecting children from accidentally seeing anything slightly sexy is naturally the top priority. That’s what is harmful to minors. We better all stick to legally safe things like racism-based disinformation.

… but yeah, the designers of mastodon deliberately chose to avoid posts any longer than very short.

“Instead of constantly making futile attempts to control the weather, we should adapt to the ever-changing climate that has existed since time immemorial. After all, climate has always been a reality that impacts humanity from the outside, and we must align our actions accordingly.” — from Google’s translation of the AfD manifesto

Huh. I knew they were pretty openly fascist, but didn’t realize they were climate deniers too.

Reading this is not going to be good for my faith in humanity, is it. Let’s see…

1. make them think everyone else is doing it
2. bribe them
3. get their cult leader to tell them to do it
4. persuade them that it’s good for “the economy”

With these techniques in mind, you may be able to persuade people to take bold actions such as sharing a video, initiating a conversation, or signing up for a newsletter.

If you wait until you’re 40 it’ll be super easy.

They did a study on my brain? I didn’t even know about it.

If the idea is to connect with family and friends, there are parts of the Fediverse where you can post stuff that’s only visible to followers. Probably not possible on lemmy or piefed though, I think.

the government doesn’t want to put limits on tech companies, that’s so fucking backwards.

/s ?

Mild surprise at the suggestion that “evidence” or “science” has anything to do with it.

If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

Oh, is that what everyone’s reacting to? Just the headline? Yeah, weird that so many people were not previously aware of the basic facts of life.

Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in physics, discusses important questions such as “dude, wouldn’t it be cool if we could send people to live on other planets on the far side of the galaxy?” and “if there are aliens, what do you think they’re like?”

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

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Finland wins again!

Much as people would like them to, both upvotes and downvotes mean very little. I learned this on reddit but it seems equally true here.