Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.
Every situation is so different that you really need professional advice.
We’re working on it :)
Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I’m sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.
There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.
10 thousand people marching would make world headlines.
No, it wouldn’t. Protest is totally normalized now, it’s just a pressure release valve that helps keep the status quo running.
Here is a protest that happened today - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212289035494255
Apparently it involved between 20,000 to 30,000 people - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212686270895144
It will not be mentioned in any big news media outside of New Zealand.
I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:
fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibility
I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.
It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.
There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.
The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?
…and yet, here we are talking about climate change. If they’d instead organized a protest of 10,000 people marching for hours it wouldn’t have been international news and we wouldn’t be talking about climate change.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
That blog post describes how it works in more detail. We now live in a world where any battery could be a bomb, there is no way to detect it and the equipment for making those bomb-batteries costs $15k on Ali Express.
I probably should have phrased it as “have less children” :)
My list was based on the book “How Bad Are Bananas” which goes into depth about the carbon emissions from various things, including children.
I’m not 100% sure that attributing the emissions of a child to their parents is correct ‘accounting’. Maybe only their emissions until age 18? Still, all the emissions caused by that child and it’s descendants would not have happened if it wasn’t for the decision their parents made to create it. Accounted for this way, there is no doubt this is the most impactful decision someone in a developed country can make (that was the framing the OP used so I went with that) but it is not the most likely to happen, most practical or most moral option.
Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147
Late, and feeble - they’re blocking 32 domains.
They’re blocking less than 1% of what piefed.social blocks.
Thank you for this
@andrew_s@piefed.social added a software filter to the search!
Here’s all the recent PeerTube posts - https://piefed.social/search?q=&community=0&type=0&language=0&software=peertube&sort_by=date&submit=Search
I took a quick swing at that idea but found that when PieFed imports a new PeerTube video it doesn’t put any special marker on it to identify it as a PeerTube video. So although I’ve added a post type filter to the search tool (check this out https://piefed.social/search - set the Type to 'Video and ‘Sort by’ to ‘newest’ ) the results you get are all mixed in with other video content.
Oh well.
Along the way I also found a tweak that suddenly makes the keyword search way better so that’s a bonus.
It would be easy to add a post type filter to the search function, then sort it by date… Would that do?
Really great tool, thanks! A few questions…
In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?
Is the full process:
Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?
Does each message need to have only one command?