I grew up on a property where surrounding farms deployed 1080, dad held one of our dogs in his arms as it writhed in pain and died from 1080 poisoning. Horrific experience, absolute cunts.

Indescriminant killing that has an unknown impact on the ecosystem.

It should be illegal to bait like that.

It’s also a potent recipe for huge profits for the every companies.

Nice, lets hope that we continue to see optimization and it doesn’t head down towards bloat from features being added.

As a nerd I appreciate this. Seems like good incremental improvement going on in the Lemmy backend side of things.

As an instance hoster, does Lemmy provide documentation around tuning and keeping your instance efficient?

Music to my ears Lodion :)

Have people pay a small fee to engage with the community. Ad revenue is not the only way to make money, remember the good old days when people actually paid for services that provide value?

Start with relying on donations and then make make it mandatory if required.

Ad revenue is a good way to make big profits, not just revenue, not something that we are interested in.

I’d be interested in this, subbed to frugal.

Oz Bargain is my go to for finding deals on new goods, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/deals.

Curious, is your family American?

Awesome, thanks for the tips on the search. I was able to then find it and subscribe.

Thanks for sharing, that was a nice read. There is something incredible about standing at the base of a 90m tree, awe inspiring. I can’t help to think back to a time when the southern parts of Australia were awash with giant trees, and then the Europeans came and could not cut them down fast enough.

Is there anywhere that shows what forest coverage would have looked like in Australia prior to European settlement?

That all looks pretty healthy, the key will be maintaining momentum. Thanks for sharing.

I just finished watched Alone: Australia, one guy didn’t eat for over 20 days. Fasting may be a good option for avoiding needing to poo. I’d imagine you’d have to start that process maybe a day or two early. To get the best effect.

Yup, agree totally. Only way it can work is if the org running it is a not for profit with great transparency, which hopefully is what we will see with the likes of Lemmy etc.

There is an argument to make that things like reddit or even Facebook (original fb, not what it is now) should be publicly owned services. They CAN provide value to society, similar to how a town hall can.

What device / os are you using it on? I have it on a Pixel 4a and it works with no issues that I’ve noticed, been smooth sailing. Coming from RIF it also feels fairly familiar.

I don’t really understand this sentiment, I’d rather pay a subscription for a service like fb / insta / reddit than have ads and my identity sold to the highest bidder.

Social networks are expensive to run, the idea they should be “free” is half the problem.

Though of course the enterprises behind them make far more money through advertising and mining user data than they would through a subscription model.

Such a weak argument anyway!

For one, like you say, it’s not even true. Even if it were true, who cares, how about we actually lead in some kind of progressive reform, instead of being a bloody backwater. Do we really want countries like the UK and USA to be our shining light of inspiration??

Politics and media over the last few decades have stunted Aussie and made us think that we cannot stand on our own too feet.