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Tenthrow , to technology in 1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
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I have been posting and commenting a LOT more than I ever did on Reddit. Some small part of that is a desire to grow the platform and my communities.

speaker_hat ,

Me too, keep it up 🤘

sturmblast ,

Time to contribute to a platform that I can believe in.

lapislazuli , (edited ) to til in TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97...

There are similar examples from other countries as well. TV was seen as a means for making live broadcasts, so back-ups weren’t made and tapes got recorded over. Source: a course on TV history I took.

Sivar , to til in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

There’s this amazing TED talk by Hans Rosling about this. Worth it to check it out! ted.com/…/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine

Edit: sorry, someone posted this earlier. Lemmy not showing comments…

sab , to til in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Some consider it the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation.

...hmmm.

ribboo , to til in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

I first read “the vending machine”. I was really looking forward to getting to know the rest of why it’s such an invaluable invention!

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski , to til in TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

When I was a vegetarian, Indian food was my go to. Guaranteed to be vegetarian and tasty. It would even be mostly vegan but they use ghee in almost everything, so it's a big no-no for vegans unfortunately

aeternum ,

Vegetarianism is not enough. Cows are murdered at a few hours old if they have the misfortune of being male, or unwanted "stock" if they're female. Male chicks are killed at a few hours old because they'll never produce eggs. Vegetarians preach love for animals, but they're hypocrites. dairy and eggs are so cruel.

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski ,

I agree. I was vegetarian for 3-4 years and realized that if I was doing it for the animals, I couldn't keep consuming eggs and dairy, or any other animal product for that matter. Been a vegan for more than 10 years now

aeternum ,

got a few years on me, but I'm vegan too. Probably for about 4-5 years

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski ,

Ye man I could infer that from your earlier comment :D
Just a tip: I agree with everything you say, but if our goal is to change peoples' behavior, it is detrimental to call the hypocrites (and similar adjectives). That creates cognitive dissonance, and people usually double-down on their old behavior when faced with cognitive dissonance instead of changing their behavior. What I've found works best to make people go vegan is instead of calling them out on their behavior, show them positive examples of veganism, and let them do the math.

aeternum ,

This is true. I was probably a bit rash calling them hypocrites. it just makes me so angry.

MadMenace ,

I've been told that Sri Lanka is a popular travel destination for vegans because the food is like Indian food minus the ghee.

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski ,

Nice tip! Thanks

NosyRock , to til in TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

I wonder what percentage is a choice or social pressure or affordability

glorious_albus ,

Probably not that high. From experience, it’s just that you’ve been eating vegetarian food all your life, it’s really weird to eat non vegetarian. In fact, there are many of my friends who’ve turned non vegetarian due to peer pressure from their friends.

Tommy_the_Gun , to til in TIL of Kevin Budden, who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it t...
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Your title gets cut off for me, so:

While attempting to bag the snake, Budden was bitten on his left thumb but was successful in placing the captured snake in a bag. Extracting a promise from the truck driver that he would get the snake to someone who would transport it south to researchers, Budden was taken for medical treatment. Not having any antivenom for taipans, Budden was given tiger snake antivenom. Although that helped counter the coagulating effect of taipan venom, it did not overcome the second effect of the taipan venom which paralyses the nervous system. Though doctors were initially hopeful he would recover, he died the following afternoon.

stevehobbes , to til in TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The ...

So awful. Just horrible.

Minsk_trust , to til in TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The ...

Well that was a fucked up read with my breakfast. Definitely some common threads with the I’m Glad My Mother Is Dead book if anybody is into hearing more about what it’s like to grow up in Hollywood.

d00phy , to til in TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die.

I believe they are trying to do this exact thing with certain mosquito populations.

PenguinJuice ,

Will that fuck with the food chain?

Earthwormjim91 ,

There are thousands upon thousands of species of mosquito, only a few hundred bite humans.

This would only be targeted at the dozen or so that carry major disease like malaria, west Nile, dengue fever, Zika, etc.

Aedes aegypti is at the top of the list.

MeowdyPardner ,
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From what I've read I get the impression that eliminating biting mosquitoes wouldn't have much impact - there are lots of types of mosquitoes and supposedly few are of the biting kind, and at the same time the ones that pollinate or are food for other animals are usually not a significant source of food or pollination, and the ones that do pollinate don't pollinate anything important to us according to a random article I read. So basically for it to matter you would need to be eliminating a kind that bites and makes up a majority of the pollination or food for something else which seems unlikely.

Hexorg , to technology in Other Fediverse projects

Just a side note, ActivityPub protocol - the core engine that lets all of fediverse to talk to the rest of the fediverse is… 5 years old. Every feature imaginable is still to be implemented.

Faceman2K23 ,
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its kinda like MQTT for humans rather than machines.

Dymonika ,

Like what?

randomnick ,
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MQTT, a protocol so machines can talk between each other. Mainly for IoT devices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT

Dymonika ,

Thanks, never heard of this before!

HalJor , to technology in Other Fediverse projects
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Is/will there be a movie/TV equivalent of BookWyrm, something to track and discuss what you’ve been watching? A quick search tells me it’s been discussed and seems like something people want but it doesn’t look like it’s been done yet, at least not as a dedicated service. Is that right?

albert180 ,

AFAIK the problem is there is no good movie database which allows free use of their data

BobQuasit OP ,
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So what? We’ll create one!

Years ago the owners of GoodReads announced that Amazon had taken away their access to the Amazon book database. It was an existential threat, they said, and asked the GoodReads community to volunteer to create a new book database to replace Amazon’s. Hundreds or thousands of us worked for free, donating thousands or tens of thousands of hours to the project.

And then GoodReads announced that they’d sold out to Amazon. Apparently they’d been in negotiations with those bastards the whole time they were lying to us about losing access to the database. Maybe proving that they could sucker their loyal users into donating free labor helped raise the selling price of GoodReads a little.

As for the database we created, I guess it’s Amazon’s now. Of course, if we create a movie database of our own, NOBODY will be able to buy it! And we can make it available for free use, if we want.

ozoned , to technology in Other Fediverse projects
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I use GoToSocial with Sempahore for my microblogging (alternative to Mastodon).

Also Owncast as an alternative to Twitch.

And then I watch tilvids.com and other Peertube instances for videos.

And of course Lemmy. :-D

Oh and then there’s Funkwhale for audio.

It’s all in different states of usability, depending on the communities involved.

sabret00the ,

I’m still waiting for a really good Peertube instance.

ozoned ,
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Understandable. But it’s the chicken and egg problem. Creators don’t want to create content, because there’s no consumers. Consumers don’t want to sign up, because there’s no creators.

So are you the chicken or the egg? :-D

If you’re on one you don’t like anymore you could always change instances and watch videos there. If you’re worried about losing comments, well you can comment from other Fediverse servers such as Mastodon or GoToSocial and they show up on the page for the video. :-)

sabret00the ,

You know what, Peertube needs the equivalent of an acquisition and the perfect candidates would be, and I’m on record saying this before, DailyMotion and Vimeo. They’ve already got content and by implementing activitiypub integration, they can grow their audiences and compete with YouTube for once and for all.

But yeah, for me. I haven’t even found a video to watch let alone comment. That said, my YouTube is generally me watching album reactions, music videos, Hot Ones, Adam Something and Beard Meats Food.

ozoned ,
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Nothing stopping Vimeo from plumbing in ActivityPun amd joining the Fediverse. It’s open and the only reason no one does is because the data is valuable and they don’t want to share and play nice.

These walled gardens were not how the internet was imagined.

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