Former Forensic Scientist with the Home Office.
Former active researcher in biosciences.
Former forum moderator on a high profile casual sex site (they no longer have a forum - was it something I did?)
Fundraising manager for a small-medium size charity.
Write articles for the Daily Twerk
When addition doesn't add up
Listened to an interesting programme about mathematics on the radio the other day....
how did you find out about Lemmy?
I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I'm pretty upset that I didn't discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny (www.politico.eu)
How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
How do we call kbin users?
Kbinners? Binnies? Kbinators?
Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says (www.jpost.com)
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
Who even uses Celsius (programming.dev)
What will be the sign that kbin/Lemmy have 'arrived'?
Will it be when journalists from tabloid newspapers start putting articles on their Facebook pages saying 'after a fallout with the neighbours/school/bride/boss one angry mother/homeowner/parent took to kbin/Lemmy to ask others what they think'....
Meta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next? (reb00ted.org)
Modern problems require medieval solutions (lemmy.world)
What were some "bad habits" on reddit that we should try to avoid bringing over here?
As the fediverse continues to grow, let's reflect on some of the things that we disliked most about posting/lurking on reddit and what we can do differently now that we have a chance to build something new.
"No one's leaving Reddit" - how do we keep this momentum?
I read articles like these: https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/...