It’s an interesting project, but NodeBB and Discourse have been working on adding activitypub support, so people who prefer bb style forums will probably use those. I don’t think they integrate that well with lemmy yet, but I think it’s being worked on.

Recycling rates are low, but I wouldn’t quite call it a myth. There’s a lot of materials that get lumped together as ‘plastic’, that each have to be handled differently.

Some are relatively non-toxic and easily recycled. More can be, but aren’t profitable without incentives. Some are very toxic, and recycling those are difficult. Then there’s a lot of rarer types that make it hard to collect and sort. There’s also mixed materials, where it’s hard to separate the plastic to recycle.

Generally everyone should be minimizing plastics, but check how they’re handled locally so you know what’s recylable.

Also all the debris burning up on reentry. With starlink they want to have 42k satellites, each designed to only last 5 years. So that’d be about 2 tons of aluminum added to the atmosphere every day.

Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.

It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

The’re not meaningless. There’s plenty of stronger strategies if you can coordinate them, but protests are still useful, and easier to get people started on.

Even if it doesn’t have an immediate effect, protests help get people connected and organized. They find others in their area they can work with, and groups learn to coordinate with each other better. It can inspire people seeing how many others agree with them, and get them more active and engaged.

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

They separated pretty far back, so they’re about equally related to jackals, dogs, wild dogs, various wolf species, and coyotes.

Ancient DNA is pretty degraded, so it’s hard to get an exact number. It’s estimated they diverged more than 5 million years ago, so it’s probably hundreds or thousands of different genes.

wikipedia article

Scientists rewrote 14 key genes in gray wolf EPC cells to express 20 dire wolf traits meaning that “no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome.”

It’s still impressive, but they only changed 14 genes. These are much more wolf than dire wolf.

There’s a list of people that have agreed to block it at https://fedipact.online/