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  • Reddit is old enough to vote and has several orders of magnitude more users. You can’t create that much content organically overnight. As more content gets added it will attract more people who are interested in that content. In turn those users will contribute even more, even if it’s just in the form of engagement and upvoting posts they like.

    Lemmy is already experiencing some growing pains because the decentralized, user hosted nature of the platform will never be able to react quickly across all instances. We deal with it because we don’t want to be controlled by one overarching entity and this is the ONLY alternative. Are there issues? Yes. Are there fewer issues than other social media sites? I don’t know, but the problems are at least different and potentially more fixable in the long run.



  • Thetimefarm@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlJBP has got u bro
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    1 year ago

    The gurus normal people trust have this pesky tendency to have advanced degrees and call themselves things like “doctors” and “therapists” as if either is better than being screamed at by a car salesman in a room full of sweaty divorces.




  • Thetimefarm@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mladapted
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    1 year ago

    Your lungs can compress to equalize the pressure as you go deeper and expand as you come back up. As long as you start with ambient pressure air in your lungs you won’t have issues.

    The problem is breathing against the external pressure, you need gas pressure to help expand your lungs again after you exhale. The regulator keeps the air pressure equal to the external water pressure so breathing feels the same no matter how deep you go. With an open loop system you use air faster with depth because each breath is higher pressure and gets wasted when you exhale.



  • I find Lemmy has plenty of content for my level of use but I didn’t browse tons of communities back on reddit so my feed was fairly stagnant. I like being able to see peoples opinions and conversations about things going on in the world. I can find news topics elsewhere but no where else but reddit and now lemmy really had any worthwhile discourse about them. I don’t mind the same topics showing up in my feed as long as there are new comments that I haven’t read. Reddit was getting pretty hard to use for this though honestly, if there were any serious replies they were way down below the jokes and rage bait comments most of the time.



  • I find it telling that a direct quote from the article you linked is “a complete distortion” since I thought I included enough text to give context. We aren’t missunderstanding each other so much as we just have vastly different moral prerogatives. Even by your own claim, that revises the number down even more than the article you linked, 200 people died that night. I don’t understand how you minimize that so easily.


  • The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.

    Even the article you linked says china admits soldiers gunned down over 300 people. I guess calling it the “Avenue of Eternal Peace Massacre” would have been a little confusing. Unless 300+ people being shot in the street isn’t a massacre in your opinion.