@thisismissem I sent in my application again on the 1st of September. I haven't heard back yet. Was it received?
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On the #Brazil ban: I'm kind of surprised the joinmastodon website doesn't have a section welcoming Brazilian users, showing them the best servers. -
China is investing by far the most of any country in decarbonising its economy. Not only is it investing 2/3 of all solar and wind construction on the planet (graph by @janrosenow at https://mastodon.energy/@janrosenow/113072707208661637), it is also i...China is investing by far the most of any country in decarbonising its economy. Not only is it investing 2/3 of all solar and wind construction on the planet (graph by @janrosenow at https://mastodon.energy/@janrosenow/113072707208661637), it is also investing tremendously in nuclear.
This is what is needed. And make no mistake: it is clear that we need huge state investments and/or direction to actually be able to decarbonise. Relying on the free market, 'incentivising' it by carbon tax schemes will only bring us so far.
The West has proven this point in the past: the Messmer Plan built 58 reactors in less than 20 years, allowing France to rapidly decarbonise. Up to this day France has the second biggest reactor fleet in the world, with the US on the first spot. For now, as China will get to that first spot in less than a decade.
Invest in all the technologies to get to zero emissions
#Nuclear #Renewables #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange #China
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We should talk about this more.We should talk about this more. Fires on the largest forests of the planet are on the increase due to climate change. Yet, when was the last time you heard about it on the media?
Spread the awareness. Ifwe don't do it, no one will.
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@0.0,0.0,3.0z
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On the #Brazil ban: I'm kind of surprised the joinmastodon website doesn't have a section welcoming Brazilian users, showing them the best servers.@thisismissem I can have a look at it again. Thanks for the heads up.
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On the #Brazil ban: I'm kind of surprised the joinmastodon website doesn't have a section welcoming Brazilian users, showing them the best servers.@thisismissem True, but the process is opaque. I've tried being listed in the past and I just never received a reply.
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On the #Brazil ban: I'm kind of surprised the joinmastodon website doesn't have a section welcoming Brazilian users, showing them the best servers.On the #Brazil ban: I'm kind of surprised the joinmastodon website doesn't have a section welcoming Brazilian users, showing them the best servers. If you filter on 'South America', you get one (yes, 1) server suggestion. I've seen lists showing many more.
Also, where is Eugen in the media? Bluesky boasts 1 million sign ups in the last three days. Where is Mastodon in the headlines? Surely *now* is the time to introduce people to this network? After all, *now* is the time tens of millions of people are looking for a new home.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: establishing a network effect (that is, people being on a platform that you want to follow) is the single most determinant for people bothering to join a social media network and staying there. Moments like these come by rarely and should be snatched up as if they were candy.
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Nuclear energy has the biggest number of advantages and the fewest number of disadvantages of any energy source. -
Why do I bother with Mastodon and even make it my main social media presence?But first I'll start with a negative claim: Twitter is in a death spiral. This has been clear ever since Musk took over the platform. Most former Twitter staff has been fired, Musk has been encouraging a far right climate under the guise of 'free speech', is using his platform to directly influence US politics by backing Trump (if you're a liberal, why the hell are you paying for X?) and, perhaps most importantly, advertisers are moving away from the platform in droves.
Ad revenue is expected to decline to $2 billion for 2024, this is less than half compared to 2021 and is still declining. Trump has been in a frenzy over this, now sueing advertisers for audacity of withholding him money. You can't this shit up.
A death spiral.
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/x-expects-2-billion-in-ad-revenue-this-year (behind a paywall)
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Why do I bother with Mastodon and even make it my main social media presence?Mastodon in comparison is far from perfect too, be it for very different reasons. Lacking billions in investment money, this open source project has always been an underdog. It lacks basic features like quote posting, the default UI is pretty ugly, and development is slow with a mostly volunteer developer base.
There are better open source solutions, but for whatever reason Mastodon became the most popular in the 'fediverse'. This term encapsulates both a protocol and an idea.
The protocol is ActivityPub, a web standard (by the W3C) for different services talking to one another. This and the fact it is open source makes a crucial difference from the many Twitter alternatives that have come and gone over the years.
A social network can only succeed by establishing a network effect: you join it and stay on it because you want to follow the people that are on the network. For me, I've been struggling in leaving Twitter (yeah, fuck 'X') as the (nuclear) energy community is mainly on there. Some have created a Mastodon account, like @Angelica, but haven't maintained a presence and just returned to Twitter where they have their biggest audience. I don't blame them. For as long as Twitter exists (see earlier notes on the death spiral though), I can see why people wouldn't want to invest time and energy in establishing a decade old social circle.
This is where ActivityPub shines: Threads of Meta has launched a year ago and, because it builds on an existing Instagram network, can sport hundreds of millions of users. I don't think it's a very special platform and Meta isn't any kind of better alternative to Musk in regarding its users as unwilling sources of income.
But it has been implementing ActivityPub for the past year. Very, very slowly, but still. Every other month or so they announce another 'breakthrough' beta feature in implementing the fediverse. And this is good, as it means that the Mastodon community potentially gets access to a lot more people.
I'm convinced Meta has been doing this for their own interests: the EU has been investigating Meta's dominsnce for a while now and they're moving to an open internet for all users, irrespective of platform. Meta is merely implementing ActivityPub to keep ahead of the game and remain in a position where they can make a first move.
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Why do I bother with Mastodon and even make it my main social media presence?Why do I bother with Mastodon and even make it my main social media presence?
It's essentially a combination of a believe in grassroots community building, being in control of your own data and a wager on the future of social media.
Let me explain in a thread, of course here on Mastodon ๐งต
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#FediBlockA new instance, nederland.gay, has tech[.]lgbt listed as a โbubble instanceโ. After inquiring about this, a nederland.gay admin, Alex, sent me an agitated DM informing me that they donโt view tech[.]lgbt as racist, that they donโt agree with ...@jornane I'm not following. Is this trouble?