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I personally don’t understand why the loudness and dust pollution (which often also seems to be a bigger issue with bikes compared to cars as well) is much more regulated with bikes and cars, since a lot more people are suffering because of it compared to the “fun” for a few (assholes…).

One way or the other, the future is likely electronic, and I hope that this will happen sooner than later… As when using electronic bikes these issues compared to cars turn around:

• It’s more efficient than cars, because you don’t have these issues with high RPM etc. you have mentioned which is just inefficient combustion
• Even more silent than electronic cars (and I really don’t like the argument, that these vehicles need to be loud for the safety of pedestrians, design goddamn infrastructure that is safe for them regardless of the noise the vehicles make, you may have some kind of automatic warning in the future if this is really relevant).

Also issues like short battery life (or sluggish bike when using a big battery) will likely be solved incrementally in the future. In the meantime please (targeted to politicians) just regulate them slowly towards electronic bikes (e.g. allow only very silent new bikes, which is basically a death sentence to combustion, when very silent).

Additionally to what the others already said:

LD50 and “bad for your health” are quite separate things.

Vitamin D for example has an LD50 of ~30mg per kg. So according to your logic, it’s way unhealthier than aspartame (factor ~100). Though in reality you would die without vitamin D intake.

You can almost never say that something is not dangerous, unless it’s practically mathematically proven…

This applies especially for food etc.

I think we have to be much more conservative with food and substances we put into it. A lot of (Meta-)meta-studies suggest, that processed food is a health risk.

And this may sound a little bit far-fetched, but I think a good amount of the idiocracy in (especially) the USA may be related to the food (as also a lot of studies have found connections to brain/psychological health).

Oh yeah, fuck those loud motorcycles (please just use an electric one, they are superior in almost every way by now (but cost…)). I don’t get how these assholes enjoy annoying everyone around them, especially when driving through highly populated areas.

Maybe create a PR at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui ?

It’s not like it’s a finished product. It’s a Work in Progress. I’m watching the progress of the project for some time, and it seems for me that the first priority was to get the UX on one instance right (which IMHO makes totally sense). Basic federation support came more recently and will get better, I’m sure of it. Once that is a more smooth experience I think it will organically get more diverse.

Well reddit is currently dropping the egg…

There’s a github issue for that: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506

One way or the other, it’ll take time to be on par with the feature set of the good features of reddit (so everything before Steve Huffman got CEO if I remember right), especially in a federated way.

Also I don’t think it’s at least currently the goal to get the whole reddit userbase onto lemmy (apart from the obvious technical scaling issues that’ll arise). It was just an “unfortunate” consequence of reddits announcements that led to the sudden flush of a lot of reddit users onto lemmy. I think it needs (still) quite some time to get federation and the UX around it right (and I’m talking about basic features like user migration). Two people are just not enough, but few very passionate and idealistic/perfectionistic people will likely achieve quite a bit. Because of the announcement a lot of devs will likely contribute to the lemmy ecosystem (which is actively happening right now, if you’ll check the repos). Give it a little bit of time. I think a good maintained open source project can actually progress faster and with higher quality than most of the closed source alternatives (since I’m working in that area, a good example is Blender vs alternatives, which as of now has surpassed quite a few “competitors” with way fewer people developing it). You don’t need a lot of money for that (although obviously it would be better, let it just be for infrastructure cost).

Also github issues and PRs (or other similar platforms) actually reflect “addressing the needs” quite well. I myself have experienced it a few times and I’m seeing it in a few user-faced apps and repos a lot: I want one particular feature and it’s not implemented yet, so either I open an issue, describing my feature request well, or I start implementing it (if it’s either small, or a feature that’ll likely everyone wants), and often a lot of people want that feature too (visible e.g. via emojis), I think it’s even healthier than this layered view between corporations/operator and the user, as the user has to actively think through the feature, invest more (time) into it (even if it’s just opening a feature request issue). It’s not as easy as contacting the support, and complaining about things (which issues will likely not be communicated to devs the way it should be). Active collaboration is IMHO quite a good innovative driver.

Right, so basically this means that Lemmy (the company) will only be able to hire employees if they are single, young and in areas with low cost of living. Do you see the problem here?

Yeah but working on an open source anarchistic social media link aggregator, will likely result in exactly these people. I don’t see a big problem there, open source is dominated by different kind of people/developers. Compared to “cozy” corporate jobs, the quality of code, in my experience is much more relevant (“code is art”).

So it’s likely that a lot more idealists, who don’t value money that much will work on something like lemmy. And being able to not depend on a corporate job (and being payed for the project you’re caring about, also if it’s just enough to get around) is a dream for a lot of these people.

When you leave to employers to determine how much you “need”, you get exploited.

The unfortunate reality is, that unless you somehow “force” the user to pay for something, you’re likely get way less (money). Open source donators and donations are a fraction of the actual user base, so you have to balance the actual income (by donations) to those people who dedicate a good amount of development time…

I think he has a good point. I’m also more and more questioning my job, to the point that I reduced my my workload by 2.5x, to be able to focus on open source, although I’m now just earning enough to come around. But I’m learning much more, my skill has definitely increased in the last years in which I have focused on using the missing work time for developing open source. I’m having more fun with it: writing in the favorite language, actually relevant stuff, and if your open source contribution has actually a lot of feedback, and is (thankfully) used by a lot of people it certainly feels better than having finished a project in a corporate job. I think the QoL has certainly increased for me.

And I think these kind of people might be attracted to developing something like lemmy, and actually contributing something to society, the anarchistic thought of not being bound to these big centralized social media corporates (that produced quite a lot of bad press themselves the last few years…), and actually serve the community.