That was my first thought!

Pretty please?

Very true. Especially in the US and Australia. On the other hand, increased cost for transportation would create a lot of pressure on individual transport that should lead to more demand for public transport. The effect would probably be slower than a zoning reform

This is the way. Carbon tax will take care of that

That’s totally cultural, in the US it’s dehydration

That really is an issue. Shave your head, put an orange robe on and evangelize… I’ll try to convince as many people as possible in my friends circle!

This is my only grievance with the app, hope it’ll come soon! Meanwhile I’m using mlem for multi-instance. Memmy is for leisure-browsing!

X windows as GUI… Rest was terminal

VI as text editor…

I used it in the very early days with a Unix client. That’s must’ve been in the late nineties…

Check what meta is launching today

Patreon and a non-profit funding organization NPR-style is the way to go I think. I haven’t done any non-profit stuff so far but would love to set that up for an instance!

-> GitHub -> feature request (issue)!

This. So much this! It’s so comfy to be on the fediverse that I lack words to describe it!

the point of its existence is to fulfill its mission (to help independent distributed social media thrive)

I read that as “disturbed” and for some reason the sentence still made sense to me…

The difference is non-profit and systemically listening to your user (and mod-) base!

We’ll need this, especially with more folks coming over from other, centralized platforms wink wink