We’ll do our best!

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing! Excited to see what talks there will be.

This paper seems to suggest so, but also mentions “Previous empirical work on this topic, which shows a diverse range of estimated effects […]” - so it seems like other factors will play a role. (Disclaimer: I read only the abstract)

EDIT: Another paper seems to back up those finding.

Ah, that is a bit of a UI design issue, I agree that should be added - the way it currently works with embedded PeerTube videos is by clicking on the instance name in the bottom right:

(Screenshot is from PieFed UI, but the overall mechanism should be the same on lemmy-ui or other lemmy interfaces.)

Yupp, sadly his channel is no stranger to clickbaity titles. I guess one can say that the AUR is part of the larger Arch ecosystem, but it definitely feels like a “please click and contradict me”-title.

OK, knowing that takes a bit of pressure off, thank you very much. Then at least it should be possible to handle this even if adding the new accounts as mods myself won’t work out before tonight.

I tried that, adding my lemmy.world account at the same time as my piefed.world account - sadly that one ended up never showing outside my original instance, and also got removed there without any visible reason. Is there a way for the admins to add it as a mod locally, after my original account is gone come this evening? It’s https://lemmy.world/u/AbnormalHumanBeing.

If not, I guess moving the comm to a new one on piefed.world would indeed be a workaround, but I’d like to try and get it working some other way beforehand. The comm on lemmy.world isn’t closing down, and it would be a bit sad to lose the posts there, right now, it can work as a decent place to browse Top/All of the community to check for past popular PeerTube channels and videos one might otherwise not have heard of.

I’ll try adding my two .world accounts again today, and hope it will work out this time, before closing time later tonight.

I don’t know if it plays nice with Voyager - but a link from https://lemmyverse.link/ is usually a good thing to add:

https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/33886241

Although, it is giving me a 500 error when I click this one, which is disappointing, but hopefully temporary.

She literally died for our sins

Thank you all for your work in contributing to the Fediverse! Both to you two main devs, and everyone that contributes, be it code, hosting or even just adding to the community!

Because that is the maximum time an average Linux user can stand without trying out a new Distro.

Humans just can’t seem to stop being dicks

It’s interesting, because the work itself seems to have the exact opposite thesis: Humans on average aren’t dicks, but inequality and the interests of a few elites with essentially personality disorders the way he frames it, amplify our worst tendencies. For many thousands of years of pre-history, archaeological evidence and anthropological observations clearly show humanity in much more egalitarian societies. The example he uses is of the Khoisan people:

All Goliaths, however, contain the seeds of their own demise, he says: “They are cursed and this is because of inequality.” Inequality does not arise because all people are greedy. They are not, he says. The Khoisan peoples in southern Africa, for example, shared and preserved common lands for thousands of years despite the temptation to grab more.

Instead, it is the few people high in the dark triad who fall into races for resources, arms and status, he says. “Then as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption, immiseration of the masses, less healthy people, overexpansion, environmental degradation and poor decision making by a small oligarchy. The hollowed-out shell of a society is eventually cracked asunder by shocks such as disease, war or climate change.”

In general, it’s not a very controversial take, that the current (i.e. of the past ~5k years) inequality did not arise as a natural state but became only possible through surplus.