It was hard enough getting everyone on the same text messaging service. I think migrating to a federated service will break the family 🤣
I'm still considering it to replace my small discord server. But that's a group of tech-y friends who like to try out new things.
Congrats! I got my Open Water about 20 years ago but unfortunately didn't make enough time in life to keep active. Such a great sport though.
My personal take on it is that such behavior comes from the large-site mentality. Smaller subs initially do have higher levels of discourse, but each posting account is still sharing a karma score across the entire site. Eventually it shifts to discussion-ending posts with high upvotes.
I have high hopes that the decentralized nature of things like Lemmy will help preserve quality topic discussion. Lemmy.ml being overloaded pushed me to find a server instance more in line with my individual topics and ending up joining a very nice science community. Shout-out to Mander.xyz
In any laboratory, including ours, we always find the same result: Adolescents just are not as good as adults at cognitive control — except in studies where we say, if you do this trial correctly, we’re going to give you extra points for more money. And, miraculously, adolescents can then do it like adults.
As a teacher I've found this is key to motivation in the classroom. It's an amazing transformation for the 10-15 minute window.
After being on both sides of the experience, the chapter "Perhaps It’s Not You It’s Them: PhD Student-Supervisor Relationships" hits home.
The biggest restriction is in malting. Since gluten is present in wheat, barley, and rye it can be difficult to find a good brew base. We use sorghum malt as our starting point and spice it from there. A lot of times we will also roast something like red quinoa and let it soak in the wort for added color.