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I personally see it the same way, but for some people the pressure to schedule themselves translates to massive overworking and stress. Academia is also a bit random - sometimes you stumble upon something by luck, other times your findings suck for no fault of your own. If you worked a lot just to find yourself in the latter category it's very easy to fall down a mental hole, working long days and weekends for months and months in order to save what's left of your research agenda/professional life.

Academics are not necessarily famous for being the best acrobats of the work/life balance.

Yeah, there are absolutely tradeoffs. The distinction between work and free time becomes very vague. You might achieve nothing for days in the office trying to work, just to have an eureka moment in the middle of the night later on. So taking time outside the office is easy, but sometimes you wouldn't manage to stop working even if you wanted to.

Most people feel very personally attached to their work, so if they don't feel like they perform well (which is a rare feeling) it'll often feel like a personal failure. This often leads to people overworking and all kinds of negative spirals. A lot of people long for a more structured job.

That said I personally love it - the flexibility is by far the biggest reason why I want to stay in academia. It's not for everyone, but it is an incredible deal if you can manage to maintain some sort of work/life balance.

Academic here, I can do whatever the hell I want 95% of the time, only problem is that if it doesn't add up to a shitload of work eventually I'll be screwed. But taking a week off without telling anyone is just business as usual.

And a lot younger - the project is less ready for prime time than Lemmy is. I think the last thing kbin.social needs right now is more users.

As a software Kbin is also more fragmented - most kbin users outside of kbin.social are running mbin.

Well, it's based on experiences travelling through Germany proper - for example Denmark to France or Italy, including transfers. Often the delay will just be a couple of hours, but then you miss your transfer and you're screwed.

Also if you're on your way to Switzerland the Swiss have no patience for disruptions in their services, so if a train is delayed coming from Germany they're likely to just not accept it into the country at all.

I have also heard from people who were told to spend the night in the train, which DB just parked in the outskirts of the city for the night. That way they could offer passengers a place to sleep in the cheapest possible ways. Pregnant women or families with young children were asked to check in to hotels.

I have no doubt their bureaucrats perform world-class efficiency in their handing out, filling in, faxing and archiving a sophisticated system of paper forms.

I guess it's the trap of getting complacent and stopping modernizing as soon as you've convinced yourself you have the best system in the world.

Oh, everyone who ever travels by train in Europe will tell you that the German infrastructure is very much broken. You're lucky if your delay is less than a day travelling through Germany.

Only thing I'd add is a tag of the OP ( @BeAware ) and a link to the original post, both for giving credit and because its useful for those of us not on Lemmy!

Less important when its your own content though!

People tend to have multiple browsers. You might have FireFox installed but still not be aware why you should use it over other browsers on your computer.

Also something to be said about how a thing or two has happened in the last five years. Whatever Mastodon is doing seems to be working for a large number of users.

It's not for everyone, and that's fine. The freedom of choice is why we're in the fediverse in the first place. But the fact is that quite a few people want what Madison is offering. :)

I think there's a risk of lacking a coherent direction if decision-making is outsourced too much to the community. Furthermore, core developers might lose ownership of the project and then lose interest. As long as it's open source, I'm pretty happy to have the core maintainers develop projects according to their own vision, and the community fork it should this vision differ too much from their own. :)

This is not native Mastodon groups, but a third party group functionality (a.gup.pe).

Mastodon has group support high up on its roadmap (MAS-15), but it's not implemented yet. :)