I helped design large-ish electrical grids. 30-100k cables
Without the actual calculation bits, unfortunately.
Not very interesting. Bad software. Management didn’t really care about the problem. I was there so the problem was “managed” from their point of view.
Mastodon has very nice keyword based filter system.
For example, I have the filter “idiot did a thing”, and the keywords are a number of names of… popular people that news don’t get tired of talking about, even though the thing isn’t actually newsworthy.
So if I’m in the mood, I can check out what they did that day, and if I’m not in the mood, I’m aware that they did something again, but I don’t have to get angry over the specifics.
Same for other “ongoing” hot topics, that I already am informed about, where I don’t need the 24/7 doomscroll effect shoving negativity into my face.
So many of you will now probably think something like: “So what, it’s the fediverse, you can use another instance.”
Yes.
The problem with this reasoning is that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml, and they’re not so easy to replace.
To whom?
If people agree with you, they will move and block and defederate. And if they don’t they don’t.
Sounds like a “you” problem.
Their server, their rules. If they want to run a political censorship social platform, they can and it’s totally ok if they un-invite you.
I’m not applying but I have a comment / suggestion:
A pattern I’m seeing here, in activism and open source is that you basically want the full package right now. While I understand that that is what you need, people like that don’t grow on trees.
It would be good if there was a “trainee” position for people to gain the kind of experience you are asking for. And guidance, by you to make sure they learn the right lessons. Possibly including a private-ish best practices handbook or whatever. I know that that means additional work in the short term.
Thanks for reading, all the best wishes!
(Compare to linux’ kernel team asking for kernel devs and the policy of “pick any topic you’d like to work on”. Do I expect a fully course on everything, bringing me from “high school knowledge” to “kernel dev professional”? No, of course not. But a few book recommendations would be great. In that case. Not sure if you can learn moderation from a book.)