This may eventually work after a long effort, but in the meantime, the person with the fascist thoughts will be deriving social support from you not having cut them off. "Haha, I love fascism, and Bill still likes me and hangs out with me, so I guess I'm good!"
It was only good as a way for the British to get into the north for fur trade, since the French controlled Canada/New France (and the St Lawrence/Great Lakes waterways)
Yeah, creating a community is hard work, all those free moderators made it possible, if not perfect.
Also, I'm mainly on sites like Reddit for the discussion, so those people creating millions of comments in communities are the main draw for me. Finding the perfect karma model was never the solution, we only ever needed one that was "good enough". And that's actually very easy, provided you aren't trying to frankenstein the algo-feed to serve advertisers.
People want to see the UI, doesn't matter how few posts there are.
The content will come later; most of the Reddit alternatives I've looked at look godawful, yours is the only one I've liked. So many people get the compact and minimal comments look wrong.
> without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network effect
I think the ONLY value any of these these have is network effect. All those other things you listed are either irrelevant or come after the network effects kick in. The only other important thing is the visual/practical UX.
Requiring a login to see anything at all is too much friction for this kind of thing. (Or at least I couldn't find a link that let to content from the main page without logging in.)
The UI is nice though. Minimal dead space in the comments.
"Solar and wind are pretty useless at night or when there’s no wind"
Did you forget about the batteries already? And are you forgetting that power grids operate on a continental level? Your power doesn't have to come from next door.
Wow, this says everything I need to know about you. You are arguing in incredibly bad faith.
Germany? What the natural gas thing? They heavily relied on it through building up gas heating and then they had to embargo Russia due to their invasion of Ukraine. You can't replace all German homes with heat pumps overnight, and they hadn't even started until the war started.
Texas? They refuse to winterize their energy grid against winter weather and have repeatedly suffered failures over the last couple decades when they get an bad winter storm. Note that the biggest parts of the grid that failed were natural gas power generation. They are also not connected to the rest of the US grids which could have helped, because they don't want to be federally regulated, because they don't want to spend money to winterize their grid.
Now, what does that have to do with dams and batteries? Absolutely nothing. It's just fossil fuel generation failing thanks to regressive policy. You realize you have to build the new power generation before you can blame it right?
Nice try.
Don't worry, I don't have to convince you. Solar and wind will get so cheap even stubborn regressives will want to build it. Only the fossil fuel companies will resist. I guess maybe you work for one?
Batteries and dams can be used to store energy. It doesn't have to be sunny and/or windy all the time. Excess generation capacity takes care of the issue.
Regardless, burning natural gas for heat is burning 100% fossil fuels for heat, while electricity is not generally generated 100% by fossil fuels. Using electricity is still a huge improvement even now. And if you're using baseboard heating (electric), heat pumps are way more efficient.
Solar and wind prices are extremely low and still dropping. They are already cheaper than other newly built options. Coal plants have been shutting down, natural gas is now way more expensive, nuclear can't build soon enough or cheap enough.
I consider myself a very visual person, and yet I never find any of these very overtly visual organization-type tools even remotely appealing. It seems to me there's... too much friction and fiddliness for something I can visualize myself after looking at a text list or folder structure?
I guess maybe it would help as a presentation tool to show others how you visualize a project. I just hope it's worth the effort. Maybe the others you show it to will be impressed?
Texas' goal is as little government as possible. It is going about as well as I'd expect, but obviously you think the solution is even less??
This all started with Texas deliberately ignoring Federal warnings to winterize their energy infrastructure. They went so far as to keep their own grid in order to make the Federal government unable to force them to do something good for the people of Texas.