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The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks

Yeah, sad thing is we are already signed up for the next 20 years, as in even if we stopped emitting everything tomorrow, we would still have +2°C in 20 years...

And how realistic is stopping everything tomorow?

+3°C.. we would need to have a new coronavirus crisis every years, not just a new one, but stack them on top, in terms of emissions. Ofc you can't have more then one global confinement at a time (doesn't make sense to double confine someone) so that wouldn't even work.

We. Are. Fucked.

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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?

Honestly? Not really, actually I am glad things are getting mixed up again.

While twitter is slowly burning out, and with reddit just deciding to randomly self-destruct, this leaves a lot of space for this project which I find absolutely amazing.

This thing has potential to become so much more than reddit could ever become, and it feels so... Wild-west? Not 4chan style bs but like small communities can persist in a dark corner for a long time, and have less problems of exploding out of control with bots and frequent reposts...

Of course the 'main' instance is seeing some problems atm, but that'll push people away from it and toward smaller instances.

This is going to be great, I want to be a part pf this journey

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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral

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Long story short, they don't have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can't do that.

Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren't in line with their rules.

They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn't filter sing ups.

It's a blanket solution, and honestly, I don't blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a "safe" space... The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule...

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Does lemmy.world really have 22000 users already?

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Nah, de-federation means they won't be seeing anything from lemmy.world on:

  • local posts
  • lemmy.world posts

They will still see lemmy.world comments on other instances, but lemmy.world posts won't appear on the ALL sorting.

In the same way lemmy.world won't be able to see beehaw posts.

Basically,

  • local only concerns posts that have been submitted on beehaw communities
  • All concerns posts submitted on any instance that is federated and to which at least one user on the instance is subbed to.
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Why aren't there more admin level graphical tools available for Linux? Or if there are, what are they?

It mostly comes because a linux system is essentially a collection of much smaller programs that do one simple thing each, and each of those programs has alternatives.

So doing a gui for one program would allow you to control that one and not the others, and if you were using an alternative, you wouldn't have that gui.

Now trying to make a gui that agglomerates the most common ones has been done for userspace, mostly on specific distros... but when it comes to administering systems... it's a different story.

services, dns, ntp, boot, wm, lm, firewall, dhcp... all of these have important things to touch, but also have different programs that implement them.

Most authors of these programs don't bother with gui, mostly because it's quite some work, but also because it's not their problem. UNIX philosophy is very much do one single thing and do it well.. and when you can do a simple CLI that allows users and PROGRAMS to communicate with your program, why bother with GUI if it only accommodates one part of that equation?

Devs don't bother with GUI not because they think it'll be useless, but because it's a lot of extra work for something that ultimately will be less reliable than CLI...

One reason why linux is so good at doing servers is that no system software needs a GUI to work. Windows server has a headless version, but look how many applications are just unable to run on it as they all rely on GUI...

So in a way, having CLI first and GUI second is a blessing, even if it makes the first approach more difficult for users.