Oh I know what sort of award I’d grant a princess or any other monarch, ceremonial or not.

What if it’s an outhouse?

Sometimes I like to sleep on the floor. It’s nice.

Riposte? What a fun word, I should incorporate that.

This thread is doing well for engagement, go sort by new and comment on something ;)

My experience is that it’s more like this:

• /c/one has 15 posts per day, 5 of them with 3 comments, the other 10 with none
• /c/two has 3 posts per day with 0 comments each

Not every post is a hit, so if you cast wide you’re likely to get a greater return on comments as something is bound to attract attention. The way the sorting works is that the 5 posts with 3 comments will show at the top and the 0 posts will drop off view, showing an active community.

As long as it’s relevant, yes.

If you just posted say “I agree” or “Totally this” I don’t think that would drive any further engagement.

It always will be until the day it isn’t. Breakthrough’s cannot be timelined or predicted.

That’s another good point.

PieFed has at least taken some steps to work on this, with it automatically posting new communities to NewCommunities and auto-subbing the instance to those posted there.

If the Lemmy devs stopped pushing ML propaganda, transphobia, and genocide denial and actually worked on the software, we might be in a better place today.

Yes but those are not fusion. Fusion is the ‘holy-grail’ of energy technology. It is a long term goal that we must work towards. It’s a problem of science.

For now renewables are the cheapest, quickest, and best method we have. They should be receiving all the money wasted on those 3 methods you’ve mentioned above. That’s a problem of politics.

We easily have the means to achieve both, we are hamstrung by shortsighted corporate interests and yes this applies to China as well.

Thank you for your service o7

We need comments, that is the problem. Small communities don’t get any positive feedback via engagement, which causes them to die as the owner/sole poster feels like no one cares.

Simply link dumping (effectively what most posts are on content aggregators) is the easy part. Seeing even 1 comment inclines someone to open up the post to read the comment, which makes them in turn likely to reply and it builds from there to a hot/active conversation.

If you can just aim to write that first comment on or two posts a day in more niche communities, it will help achieve growth.

Just a few years ago US labs were the first to generate more power than they put into a fusion reactor, it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion.

Even under the shitheap Trump, the US is continuing to research into fusion and building stellarators such as Infinity 1 in Tennessee.

Europe likewise is leading breakthroughs such as with Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany lasting for 43 seconds. This is being improved with the new Proxima Alpha stellarator being built.

China’s EAST reactor had a breakthrough when they achieved 1,000 seconds last year. While Europes recent ITER tokamak should be achieving its first plasma in the coming years.

Fusion is a global effort, and scientists are benefiting from the works being put in elsewhere. Stellarators and Tokamak are both breaking new grounds each year, and each has their own pros and cons.

Don’t fall for any propaganda trying to claim anyone is “winning”.

You don’t deserve ice cream.

Go suck an ice cube.

Nah, fuck Italy on this one. Capitalists demanding censorship to protect their profits are never right.

I remember Google doing it years ago before LLMs were big things.

Guinan > Whoopi

That man is justified to shoot the ICE agent in the face four times.

All good.

I imagine if we included police killings this year alone the post would be 17x larger.

ICE killed the people in the post as well tho. It’s equally as big, yet only one gets the screen time.