Andreas

And what happens when those foreign workers in Solution #3 age, retire and need pension payouts...? Just keep hiring more and more foreign workers? Besides, "benefits everybody" is only from an national economic perspective. From the cultural, social and personal economic perspective, having a huge influx of foreigners in your country is terrible.

I don't think foreign labor is completely off the mark but there has to be guards against them costing more money than they contribute to the system, which means strict culture, skill and income requirements for permanent migration.

Is this like when they made the kilogram some function of the speed of light instead of the weight of a metal ball in a French museum?

No, it's 100% economics. Why do you think that having "careers, lives and travel" (as if having a family is not having a life?) is more appealing to modern first worlders? Because it doesn't impact their finances severely. Having more children in impoverished countries is a financial gain because children are free labor and lottery tickets to get the entire family out of poverty. In wealthy countries, children are only a financial loss.

The first distro I used was Ubuntu as part of a computer class at school, but it was preinstalled on a school computer. The first distro I installed on a personal computer was Arch because le reddit said it was le epic hackerman's IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE TO INSTALL distro. It installed, and after that I didn't use it because my favorite Windows apps couldn't work.

I discovered Lemmy around 2019 or 2020 and loved the concept but was put off by the density of commies, so I didn't create an account and participate but I would check the site around once a year to see if the community had taken off yet.

2020: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.
2021: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.
2022: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.
2023: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet?

YES!

And I am so glad to never have to see the depressing and miserable "culture" that was Lemmy from 2019 to mid-2023 again.

Federated networks are, by design, not able to be constrained by one set of rules and standards. The place you are looking for is Tildes, a centralized, invite-only, text-only website whose selling point is "high quality discussions" and very harsh moderation against anything that does not fit their standard of "high quality".

That's relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy's devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy's devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.

Exactly, if an instance loves to censor others so much they should deal with the consequences of less interaction and visibility. lemmy.ml is also dropping off my feed because their devs have beef with Kbin's dev and they blocked interactions from all Kbin instances.

Why don't you start an account there and help them out, or start an account on an instance that is federated with both if you prefer the community there? I personally disagree with their moderation and don't like the kind of users they approve of, so I'm happy seeing less of them around.

I was a kid when all of the big social media websites except TikTok took off so I never got to have it anywhere else. I wanted the sense of pride and accomplishment of being the first person ~~on my instance~~ to get my name as their username.

This design is so cute, it reminds me of the art style of HyperBeard Games. I hope something inspired by this gets chosen and not another boring "iOS flat design" icon.

If you're comparing stock Android against stock iOS, Apple has more privacy protections against tracking because of App Tracking Transparency.