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Some beliefs lead to immoral outcomes. I'm absolutely certain you can think of quite a few beliefs like that, right? Just picture a hill billy from Alabama, are all his beliefs fine?

In the end, morals is applied ethics, and politics is applied morals. We absolutely should legislate and not tolerate bad beliefs. The vague idea that "everyone has their own belief/opinion and we have to respect it" is a thought terminating cliche that makes the world a worse place. My dad wants me to respect his antivax beliefs, my grandfather wants me to respect his climate change denialism beliefs. Should I?

Vegans, even life long vegans, exist. We do not need meat. And the reformist position overlooks the question whether it actually works. Convincing 10 people to CONSISTENTLY AND FOREVER decrease their meat intake by 10% is the same as convincing just 1 person to go vegan (aka 100% reduction). I don't have studies either way, but anecdotally people are extremely bad at keeping up dietary/lifestyle changes, but veganism is a lot simpler. "No animal products" is simpler than "have I reached my 90% yet?".

Again, would love some studies on this, but it just seems more like wishful thinking. Additionally, we could just encourage both.

The meme is questionable, no argument (aren't most?)

But point 3 is just straight up wrong.

• There's vegan body builders, including some that have literally never eaten a single piece of meat.
• There's also a SIGNIFICANT difference between "enough protein to be healthy" and "enough protein for my entirely optional hobby".
• 90% of the (wannabe) body builders I know still supplement with artificial proteins (powders, shakes, bars, etc.). You could do the same with vegan sources
• Most people also forgo taste pleasure anyway, eating just rice and chicken, or plain greek joghurt. At that point, might as well eat a block of Tofu

This meme really only makes sense in response to something. I've definitely heard many non-vegans complain that a vegan diet is restricting. Most of those people do only eat like 3 veggies ever.

That being said, it's a meme, not a philosophical treatise.

Transport is a teensy tiny part of the climate/environmental impact for food. In 99.9% of cases, a plant-based food will beat out any meat from next door.

That being said, local in the sense things that actually grow locally and are in season is still a good idea, though more from a community building perspective.

Possibly an extreme take, but have you seen everything you need to see? As in, is there no need for you to discover and learn about new things, concepts, ideas, people? Sure, you can hope that something interesting pops up on your chronological page, but that's a 1 in a million chance. You might say "just search for that new thing", but that's antithetical to discovery. How can I search for something I didn't know existed? How many movies, games, books would I have missed out on without at least some algorithmic help?

For reference, I was around for the time of the forums too. It's not the downfall of society to not have algorithmic recommendations, but it absolutely decreases discoverability of new interesting things, and conversely, the dissemination of important ideas. Sure, I knew about communism etc. before I started using TikTok. But only there did the algorithm give me great creators that explained stuff in an understandable way. Only there did I find out about coops, from an actual coop owner(?).

Yes, which makes the system harder to use, ergo all the comments from normies. There are obvious advantages to federation, but I wish people stopped pretending there aren't any trade-offs.

Honestly, it could be a UX solution, that doesn't need a fundamental change in federation. I can already post as myself to lemmy.ml, even though my account isn't there. So a solution that transparently does exactly that, but while I'm browsing the lemmy.ml instance should be possible. Somewhat similar to how following people on Mastodon on different instances opens a popup for login, then follows them. Honestly, even just an easier/automated way to map from to would help. Currently, it's all instance specific IDs. If posts/comments/etc had a similarly global ID system as communities there'd be a lot less problems. Visiting that post would simply mean replacing the host part of the URL, something a browser plugin could take care of.

As someone that unironically wants to rewrite everything in Rust, but does Java for a living, Go started off horrible, but has become OK. Especially for that sweet spot between "too big for a shell/python script", but "not big enough to need perfect type checking/advanced tooling", Go is decent. I recently clobbered together a CLI tool for a customer that does some custom stuff involving S3 files. I disagree with it's biggest fans that it's really simple. Some of the syntax seems very weird, the error handling (while better than exceptions) is still extremely tedious and weak.

Honestly, the fact that the creators thought they knew better than EVERYONE ELSE that they didn't need generics, and argued against it FOR YEARS, just to finally add them now tells me everything I need to know about how they think of their users, and about whether they react in a timely and reasonable manner to needs of the community.

But Lemmy IS harder to use than alternatives, that's just irrefutable. If I have a Reddit Account, I can interact with any Reddit content in any sub, directly. I don't have to find the version of that post in my instance, DIRECT ACTION.

Sometimes I feel like a federated login (think Google OAuth style) would be far superior to just federating content.

No, Twitter has an algorithm. As much as people hate them, algorithms are what make social media actually interesting. 99.99% of creators I follow on TikTok (for example) I would have never ever found if all I had was a chronological feed of messages.

For reference, I found a tool that does what I'm looking for: https://github.com/guumaster/hostctl