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even less cool than you are

"It's OK if the number of secondary fediverse services¹ is much less than the number of accounts or the number of primary account services², as long as it's much more than one."

#Poll #EvanPoll

¹ for example: people search, text search, tag search, bridges, groups, reposters
² for example: Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Pleroma instances

Strong agree
43.2%
Qualified agree
42.4%
Qualified disagree
9.3%
Strong disagree
5.1%
Poll ended at .
This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!) » Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really/
This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!)

"Contrary to what The New York Times has speculated, we are not at peak newsletter. We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery."

Nieman Lab

@silverseams

I don’t want a small community. I want a vast huge community endless as the stars but made of small communities— where a few feel like home.

Cities of Billions! I’m always dreaming of what a city with a billion people would be like— and not a dysfunctional city …a good one.

36 Things I Learned in 2022, including things like "The Sun has only rotated approximately 20 times around the galactic center" and "The silk of Darwin's bark spiders is ten times stronger than kevlar." https://kottke.org/22/12/36-things-i-learned-in-2022
36 Things I Learned in 2022

Inspired by Tom Whitwell's annual list (here is 2022's), I kept a list of interesting things I learned this year. There are suppos

kottke.org

It's time to take stock! ✔️
Here are the 10 most-watched films on NFB.ca in 2022: http://bit.ly/3G0vH6w

#NFB #ONF #Topten #CanadianContent #Canadianfilm #CDNtalent #Canada #Film #Animation #documentary #shortfilm #IndigenousCinema

Most-Viewed Films of 2022 - NFB

Most-Viewed Films of 2022

National Film Board of Canada
@futurebird When I first joined, in addition to finding some of the people I followed on twitter, I also made it a point to follow people who boost interesting content even if they don't post much of their own stuff (like I don't), so as to get a diverse, content-rich feed. I don't actually follow that many people (I only just passed 100), but I already feel like I have more content than I can keep up with. And of course I boost to try to pass on the best (IMO) of it.
In the middle of nowhere. In mezzo al nulla. Photo: Vassilis Tangoulis.
how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it
Boring Buildings transforms into art (32 photos) – Seth a Collection
https://streetartutopia.com/2019/11/24/boring-buildings-transforms-in-to-art-seth-a-collection-32-photos
Boring Buildings transforms into art (32 photos) – Seth a Collection

Born in Paris, Seth began to paint on the walls of his city in the mid-90s. Before becoming a full-time artist, Seth works in the creative industries: advertising, cartoons, comics. He painted in the

Engineers and scientists are warning communities around the Great Lakes to prepare for a future with more extreme water level fluctuations.

A report published this year by Natural Resources Canada warns that "climate change may affect net water supplies" to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River over the next few decades.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/climate-change-st-lawrence-river-1.6695258

#climatechange #Canada #GreatLakes

What one region's water level woes reveal about climate change and the St. Lawrence River | CBC News

Strolling along the shore on Ault Island, Cliff Steinburg points to the end of his dock. He says this summer there was less than a foot of water there, making it impossible to launch a boat. While the river has since stabilized, Steinburg worries what next year will bring to a region known for its fishing, beaches, and boating.

CBC