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kudra

@kudra@aus.social

I like beets.

#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health

Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: https://mastodon.social/@kudra 😅)

Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?

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mike, to random
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I think a simple change in nomenclature could help Mastodon incredibly. Servers is an inaccurate term and instance is unfamiliar and vague. Both create tension for new users.
Why not simply call Mastodon instances what they are: Communities.
Ask users which Mastodon community they'd like to join. Have community rules, community policy, and community leaders. Not server rules, instance moderators and administrators.

Let me start. Everyone is welcome at our community, https://thecanadian.social

kudra,
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@espyeen @ajsadauskas @chad @Gargron @mike And here's the social in social media. It is more complex than email, or even instant messengers, in that the communications are more public. So it's far more a community issue when inevitable conflicts occur.

Having said that, my Fediverse experience so far has been completely unproblematic, maybe just luck, or down to a stable instance? I guess you don't know what you don't know.

onepict, to random
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I remember when strike through with LJ happened as I'm very sure @anildash does as well.

Because Livejournals code was open we had several network splits.

We had LJ, insane journal, journalfen and Dreamwidth.

Open ID even meant we could post comments on these communities and people's journals.

I have a feeling that there's a lot of former LJ folks on here, who were in fandom.

kudra,
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@onepict @anildash I wasn't in fandom on LJ, was in the community, which thrived there in the early aughts.

While people have survived and found friends again after the split, it wasn't a good time. It was the same, probably worse really, with G+.

Interestingly have found some people from both spaces have migrated to Fedi, but it's still hard to find folk, and many who were on LJ in quite tight knit communities that I speak to in other places (Discord, Signal) still have the opinion that Fedi isn't worth their time as their networks are not here (yet). The fragmentation was deeply damaging, most people just went to Facebook, and even now, far too many can't see the importance of Federation to our social health and safety.

I feel the only way things will truly change is for legal intervention, which is coming to the EU, and why Threads, I think, was built, in anticipation of this legal hurdle for monopolist players.

kudra,
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@onepict @anildash WordPress​MU tried. G+ actually did a reasonable job, I think Diaspora might have as well, but of course now we know in hindsight, G+ was only created to destroy the nascent Fediverse, which actually had a shot at that time of taking a serious percentage of eyeballs from Facebook before it got split by G+. It was a fucking shame. And I was one of the mugs.

At the time Google spouted the same bullshit and are spouting now about planning to be interoperable, but I think Meta is definitely bolder now, and know much more about how to lock in users. They want to slurp up the ex-Twitter addicts, they don't really care about Fedi, we're still peanuts to them. The concern about Threads is only relevant while people don't learn the lesson many of us active in Fedi now learned back then.

Fool me once, shame on you. Many are wiser now... I hope. I still think legal requirements for interoperability are necessary to protect against the monopolists though most plebs still don't understand why it's imperative for a functional society.

Side quest:
Social Media tshirts I have:

LiveJournal
Diaspora
"NO I'M NOT ON FUCKING FACEBOOK"

... really need a cute to add to my collection, recommendations welcomed 😊

kudra, to fediverse
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Preaching to the choir here, but I think it's really valuable to see services/apps like Flipboard pivoting to open social, in a really visible way.

This is stuff I have been screaming about (and annoying the hell out of most people) for over 15 years. I am finally hopeful that the critical mass has just about been reached, and each pivot that occurs, especially with relatively well known brands that rose up before the monolith walled gardens, I'm a little bit more vindicated. I care so passionately about this, and I really hope to eventually be able to reconnect with many people I've lost from my life because I refused to connect with them on Facebook all those years ago.

Great interview and makes really good points, reminding us why it's so important to fight for this. Not as keen about the bit about advertising, which obviously is part of the revenue model for many apps these days, but they focus on the need to be respectful of users, instead of that is so prevalent currently.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-evan-prodromou/

kudra, to bluesky
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ok, I didn't believe this was real until I went to confirm.

Seriously people?

I'm going to stop following people here who actively promote bluesky.

Why on earth would you want to go there??? This is just beyond parody. But it's... real 🤯

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kudra, to TeslaMotors
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The grid is currently paying me to charge my (and do my laundry!)

kudra,
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@Mittens_meow @Aradina correct, current radar shows more incoming shortly

kudra,
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@PeelerSheila thankyou! Sorry to hear your partner has ongoing issues - I'm truly not looking forward to the potential of this to keep reoccurring now its happened twice in a row with little time in between. But it has given me the kick up the arse to lose weight and despite the ongoing poor sleep and pain not yet resolved, daytimes are pretty good now, I am getting at least 5 hrs sleep (up from 2-3 hrs a couple weeks ago) and can function even though mornings take a while to warm up. My surfaces! I can almost see theeemmmmm!

kudra,
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@Reonn @CEOofmyhouse56 crap, what area are you in? I checked the outages list and it was still huge yesterday. I'm in a rural area that gets regular outages, but they are usually resolved within about 12 hours. But the amount of trees down, damaged or basically exploded on the drive out from the city today was... exceptional. I'm not surprised it's taking them quite a while to rectify all the issues.

kudra,
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@Duenan @CEOofmyhouse56 haha chuckles in decaf moccona

kudra,
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@Seagoon_ @TinyBreak very sage advice.

kudra,
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@TinyBreak @Taleya I live half an hour from Moe up in the BawBaw Ranges and it's lovely. Don't have a battery sorted yet, but it is also on the list, as we get regular shortish outages.

kudra,
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@Nath @CEOofmyhouse56 tempted to change mine to that, would be quite fun watching ppls reactions.

I've had the same ring tone for a very, very long time, for there has never been a better one created:

https://youtu.be/dJ0zGZ2t7xE?si=AiKAOhOW8BIn-Se2

kudra,
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@wscholermann @Seagoon_ my sinuses cleared up when I stopped living in Melbourne most of the time - I still visit very regularly, but I live rurally and the difference has been dramatic. Not tropical, far from it - but I'm originally from Perth, and I developed a few different health issues when I moved to Melbourne. I think it's unfortunately got pretty poor air quality generally compared to many other places in Australia.

kudra,
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@ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ I think it's a combination of different things, pollen, dust, weather, pollution: all of which may be somewhat more localised?

kudra,
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@Baku @dumblederp

Replying from Mastodon here. Sorry to be annoying, I like Federation 😊

kudra,
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@Baku yeah it is a bit weird and disjointed but I just like the fact that I can do it, even if it is sub-optimal.

kudra,
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@RustyRaven I WANT SLIDES

kudra,
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@Baku comments/replies just come through like regular posts in my feed, so yeah it's a bit janky but I like not having to look at different places, and if stuff comes up that I can comment on, it's quite easy to do =) I love social network interoperability, even if it is imperfect!

kudra,
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@danwritesbooks @CEOofmyhouse56 my tip is: clothes dryer lint! Save it and you guarantee a fast start.

timrichards, to tv
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Hilarious, I love a good debunking. Apparently those hallowed areas where people routinely live over 100 are explained by... pension fraud! So much for the breathless Netflix doco about 'blue zones'.

Blue zones: The myth of the paradise for 100-year-olds

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/blue-zones-the-myth-of-the-paradise-that-makes-people-live-to-100-20240229-p5f8mb.html

kudra,
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@timrichards

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018708179/dr-saul-newman-debunking-the-blue-zone-longevity-myth

and

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/01/blue-zones-have-captivated-health-and-longevity-experts-but-are-they-real-or-statistical-grift/

are two non-paywalled articles on the same subject.

Hypx, to TeslaMotors
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BEVs are functionally unfixable if the battery dies. The cost of battery replacement exceeds the cost of the car itself. As a result, they are going to lead a huge shortfall in available transportation options for the lower class. In reality, BEVs are toys for the rich. They are not serious transportation ideas.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/bmw-i3-owners-asked-to-pay-over-30k-for-battery-replacement-and-one-gets-quoted-71k/

kudra,
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@Hypx correct. Anyone below that isn't in the market for a hydrogen car either you know.

kudra,
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@Hypx which part(s) of the above do you claim are gaslighting? Are you saying I can't possibly be poor simply because I own a BEV? In global terms, sure, but compared to the average Australian, I'm in the bottom quarter.

kudra,
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@Hypx I am a relatively poor person in Australia, but I've been into electric bicycles and following BEV developments for years, and while I'm poor I'm still reasonably good at saving money. I imported a second hand 10yo EV from Japan. The battery it came with still had years of life in it, but I upgraded for range and will use the old battery in an offgrid home system. Overall my investment beyond the cost of an equivalent ICE vehicle will pay itself back in about 5 years, and beyond then I'm continuing to benefit from massively cheaper "fuel" and the vehicle will likely last another decade and beyond (an Aussie owned Tesla recently broke 700,000km, with a battery swap at 666,666km).

A brand new BEV from a different Japanese auto co is slated for this year with a brand new battery, which will be about 2/3 the cost of my 10yo BEV + upgraded battery. I'm considering upgrading to that.

Keep trying to tell people BEVs are not for poor people... I'm proof that is absolutely not true.

kudra,
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@Hypx no, they probably won't. The chemists who work in this area absolutely disagree. Hydrogen may yet have breakthroughs, and in that case, I'll definitely be promoting them. But not at this stage. The new tech that Toyota recently unveiled where you just fill the car with water and the hydrogen is created onboard is may have potential, for example. It reminds me a bit of the Delorean powered by garbage in Back To The Future, haha. But the way hydrogen cars work currently, they are not cheaper, and they are nowhere near as practical as a BEV you can charge at home. You can get a BEV and be completely fairly independent even in a country without infrastructure, which is why Ethiopia has already banned import of ICE vehicles. Hydrogen vehicle tech and infrastructure as it is currently will continue to have the same (& worse) issues as ICE tech & infrastructure.

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