it would be cool if i (or any user) could just contribute a part of their storage space / network connection to the video platform. something like "i store this video (that i just watched) for a month sothat others can see it too".
unfortunately, as i understand it, there's both technical and legal hurdles.
technical hurdle: this doesn't work for mobile, where network traffic is often limited. e.g. if i pay $10 for 50 GB upload/download capacity per month, then i don't want 49 GB of those to be sucked up by other people's video watching behavior.
legal hurdle: what if some of the content is accidentally illegal? then i would be distributing illegal material, which can quickly become a problem for myself ... (seeing how it is illegal in many countries to distribute copyrighted material, but not to watch it oneself).
as long as it's american companies running everything, it's "fair" and "free market".
as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we'll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to "protect american values", "for our national security" or sth else. i've seen this soo many times. people who "just follow the rules" as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.
what counts as an "operating system"? is it enough to just create another linux distro? is it enough to just fork the distro and add a new visual design to it?
you're writing as if you know what users want. let people decide themselves please. allow mastodon<->lemmy federation, make it an optional feature that you can activate on sign-up or in your profile setting. this way everyone is happy.
hmm, when i copy-paste your username into my mastodon instance search field, i get:
so i can see your user profile. however, it reports as "0 Posts" and when i scroll down, i do get a few of your posts/comments, but only very few (like 20 in total maybe).
this is what i meant when i talk about a lack of compatibility between lemmy/piefed and mastodon.
In my personal (unsubstantiated and speculative) opinion, the biggest hurdle to adoption for Lemmy and the fediverse is the lack of content in most topics outside of technology and politics.
Agree, but one thing to easily improve this is better federation with mastodon.
How many of the posts that you see in your feed come from mastodon? For me it's probably less than 5%. Well guess what, mastodon users are about 90% of all fediverse users. stats (active mastodon users: 1.5M, active lemmy users: 36k)
Why don't we see the large amount of already-existing content from mastodon?
(If you want to make as much content for lemmy, as is already existing for mastodon, we'd need about 1.5M new users. instead one technological change could get us there too.)
very interesting. for those who want to know how it works:
Most commercial reactor designs use normal water as the moderator. Water absorbs some of the neutrons, enough that it is not possible to keep the reaction going in natural uranium. CANDU replaces this "light" water with heavy water. Heavy water's extra neutron decreases its ability to absorb excess neutrons, resulting in a better neutron economy. This allows CANDU to run on unenriched natural uranium, or uranium mixed with a wide variety of other materials such as plutonium and thorium. This was a major goal of the CANDU design; by operating on natural uranium the cost of enrichment is removed. This also presents an advantage in nuclear proliferation terms, as there is no need for enrichment facilities, which might also be used for weapons.
From Wikipedia. So the key is to improve the neutron economy sothat there's more neutrons available; then, these extra neutrons can go on to split extra material, which is thereby consumed.
The military coup in Niger has raised concerns about uranium mining in the country by the French group Orano, and the consequences for France's energy independence.
yeah it's pretty crazy how much energy is in fuel.
1 kg of oil contains about 30 MJ of energy. enough to accelerate an object of the same mass to 7.7 km/s. which is almost escape velocity on earth (11.2 km/s), or enough velocity to shoot the object out of earth's gravity field altogether.
it would be cool if i (or any user) could just contribute a part of their storage space / network connection to the video platform. something like "i store this video (that i just watched) for a month sothat others can see it too".
unfortunately, as i understand it, there's both technical and legal hurdles.