It's a different approach for sure. Back in USSR we had dense housing, but it was surrounded by lots of parks, so there was a lot of nature to enjoy as well. And it was definitely safer than anything I've experienced in the west. People would let their kids out to play completely unsupervised, and you'd have seniors go to the park in the evening. The idea of being mugged wasn't even something anyone could imagine.
The cyberpunk future we deserve.
Unfortunately, North America suffers from terrible city planning. It never ceases to amaze me that it's practically impossible to get around without a car in so many places in US and Canada. I grew up in USSR, and everything was organized using microdistricts which were designed so that you had everything you needed within walking distance, and most of the time you didn't even need to use public transit to get around. It's one of the things I miss the most living in Canada nowadays.
And I agree that in person collab can be smoother, but zoom is a decent trade off. also find you get interrupted less with remote work. When people are in the office it's really easy to just pop up somebody's cubicle.
Indeed, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to the office at this point. Also, imagine the amount of cars this removes from the road each and every day.
this was the project I was thinking of https://www.powermag.com/china-group-announces-successful-test-of-space-based-solar-power/
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Correct, it's a regime that bans public protest and tortures journalists. If one of the designated enemies was caught doing what UK is doing then you'd wast no time calling it a regime.
I agree in general, federated nature of Lemmy does mean that people can always have their own smaller communities with their own rules. More people moving away from corporate platforms is generally a good thing as well in my opinion. This is ultimately the way the internet was envisioned to work where we have a bunch of servers run by regular people as opposed to being centralized around a handful of corporate platforms.
My main point was that slower steady growth can help people adjust to the better aspects of the fediverse, and there is no rush to grow.
There is no value in growth for the sake of growth. Lemmy isn't a commercial platform that needs to keep getting VC money to stay afloat. Only thing that actually matters is sustainability.
Sustainability comes from having enough people to do development, people willing to host servers, and users to create content. All these things are already present and Lemmy can go on indefinitely without any major growth.
In fact, rapid growth can be a net negative because it brings a lot of toxic behaviors from Reddit. When there's a slow trickle of users coming in then they adjust to existing norms. When there's a horde of new users they become the norm and overwhelm the existing community.
Rising temperatures are more likely a complimentary as opposed to a contradictory factor. It's entirely plausible that our of near a billion mosquitoes that were released there would be genetic variation which would allow them to reproduce. As we've learned with covid, it's very hard to predict how these things evolve.