About point 4, there is this really weird phenomenon that people going one way or the other replicate the same results without consciously changing the way you eat. Americans eating “unhealthy” in Europe get better and Europeans “eating healthy” in the US get worse.

happy to help! maybe we should set up a Lemmy Community if none exists already

A bit of a history of trams: they existed before the modern electric bus, as horse trams, because they could carry more people. Most tram networks have been removed since the introduction of the bus. Modern trams however can increase capacity a lot, and even small trams can fix hard problems like in the Lisbon inner city. Many modern trams are somewhere on the light rail spectrum and are both faster and often have more dedicated right of way, so they don’t get stuck in traffic. Understanding this, you can see how you can often also fix the same issues with dedicated bus lanes, but a tram track also fixes refueling properly. A third option is of course a trolley bus or a trolley/battery hybrid. Every location needs something that fits the local circumstances.

As far as I know there is no intention to have Bluesky be proprietary in any way in the long run, just the philosophy is different and closer to P2P networks. For example migration is a big element of the design, unlike Mastodon. But at the moment it’s still being built, hence why it looks much more proprietary for now.

Threads still hasn’t actually fully connected with the fediverse, they are working on that, and until yesterday they weren’t live in Europe yet, so it wasn’t a real alternative for many people. That is changing drastically.

This post sounds to me exactly like people’s reactions to Brexit. They were like “see, it’s not to bad” for the whole time when nothing was implemented yet. And then it actually went live, and everything went to shit. Keep an eye on when things actually go live the way they plan.

Mostly agree, except many people are fed-up with algorithms, so giving a manual option helps with that.

and when you reach 10%, you basically toggle the general opinion massively.

Build a new internet on top of gemini? :D

yep, PDAs became more widely attractive when phone functionality got added. or you have an iPod Touch.

13+ years on Reddit, never very active though… still modding some smaller communities.

No, because trans men are “biologically women” and are thus specifically allowed by this approach. It’s the same kind of conflation that causes the bathroom issues. People only seem to understand that trans women exist and think they are the same as trans men. Reminding people that trans men exist hopefully gets peoples brains working.

I have a XX/XY friend. You tell me their sex/gender.

It’s still a social construct if it’s based on facts. Social construct doesn’t mean fake, it means we gave it a name and meaning.

sometimes afaik you could still have success renaming the file to .gif or .gifv I think? Telegram and Whatsapp should also work afaik.

look up mp3 – that didn’t become public domain until pretty recently (I think 2017?)

not an uncommon thing really

well, see confusion by OP. otherwise really not true.

funny enough, not true. try saving a video as mp4 but not too long and without sound (!) and it will be treated exactly like gifs on those platforms.

Big Game by Samuel Jackson. I really loved that movie and people barely know it exists.

I’m sure he got someone to do that for him

The big difference is that some networks just make good moderation and defending your eyes basically impossible. Not with the Fediverse, where it’s designed to be the way you like as a person and as a community.