Mindless_Enigma
The article mentions they’ll do this with “new technology” but following the links I can’t find any specific details on what they’re referring to. 600 miles of range is a sizable jump from current standards, but it sounds like they’re just stating the obvious that eventually we’ll hit 600+ miles of range as batteries improve.
To me, the biggest improvements will continue to be charge times. Right now there’s such a hard barrier with BEVs when your trip crosses the threshold from “just have to charge before and after” to “have to plan where to stop for hours to charge.”
If downvotes had been used as originally intended, they would be perfectly fine. But the cultural shift over time on the site from “downvote things not adding to the conversation” to “downvote what I don’t agree with” made their existence more toxic to conversations. Weighing down unpopular opinions in the sort feed made it even easier for echo chambers to build up. Having a way to give comments that are productive a bump is enough for effectively sorting things.
I can see comments and posts on their profile from communities I’m not in. Not quite sure why that isn’t the case for you. Maybe a weird quirk of how the different instances are federated. Looks like they’re talking about !fountainpens@sopuli.xyz. As for finding communities, I don’t know what the UI is like outside of Beehaw, but when I go to the community list I can chose to search all instances to find communities all over.
It’s neat to see them using ActivityPub, but I’m really wary of anything created under the Meta/Facebook umbrella. We’ll have to wait and see if they decide to act in good faith with this which my biases make me doubtful they will.
Also, if they’re using ActivityPub, why would I have to join if I can just loop in with my existing Mastodon account?
I’m not a lawyer or anything, but I have to assume there’s some kind of process for checking citations you’re taught along the way that go beyond trusting what a computer writes.
I know he said his assumed that ChatGPT had some kind of access to data other sites didn’t but not finding those cases anywhere else should’ve raised red flags. People need some refreshers on computer literacy.