We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.

• There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don’t agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.

• There are a lot of people who don’t want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don’t agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.

IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent ‘social media platform’ that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.

We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.

French Revolution: May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799

Invention of ‘Internet’: 1969

Turning off the internet/social-media will only throw gas on the fire grease on the guillotine me thinks.

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Does anyone know anything about cortisol and running fasted when you wake up? I’ve been reading online that running when your cortisol levels are high in the AM ‘can be bad for your muscles’. My goal is weight loss not performance so I’m wondering if it’s really a concern.

(I’m not so worried I think my muscles will vaporize lol)

I say we make them invisible but still keep them for backend. Same with karma.

Besides base thresholds to prevent bots, it could also be used in mod recruitment to make sure mods are active members of a given community. As Lemmy evolves other useful mod tools could also leverage those scores. Perhaps by giving either limited moderator powers or enhanced reporting powers to a communities most active members.

I fully agree that karma/vote-scores are contusive to creating toxic hive mind environments, but I think their visibility is the crux not their existence.

Prizes and awards could maybe stay, not sure

They should be used to fund the servers.

In combination with invisible vote scores and no karma it would be a good way to highlight great content without feeding into dopamine addiction.

Engage content that you enjoy and ride this out.

Right now lemmy’s growth is driven by people pre-emptively leaving reddit even though their choses mobile apps still function. We’ll probably see another influx come July.

But for now all we as a seed community can do is engage the other topics we enjoy and build communities that have substance.

Eventually people will join to engage those topics instead of grip reddits demise.

Because reddit is run by a bunch of greedy losers who want to go public, pump, dump, and fuck off to wherever the next Little Saint James is.