ChemicalRascal

It really doesn’t have to be a “fact of life”, and it isn’t in many places, such as Australia and England – nations with very similar degrees of economic prosperity, and very similar cultures, to the USA.

Solar wind is not going to just yeet stuff around like that. It’ll have some sort of impact, but it’s not like, you know, actual wind.

Whisked off into space by what, exactly?

A large swarm of satellites, forming an adjustable solar shade, sitting around L1 for Earth-Sun is likely the best approach we would have. The swarm wouldn’t be in a geosynchronous orbit, though, but instead a heliosynchronous one.

Realistically? Something a lot like what we currently have, but with everyone having access to prompt healthcare, living in comfort. A focus on community and cooperation being more dominant in the culture, rather than competition and comparison.

Exactly this. On Reddit, you would end up with stuff like r/TrueStarWars and such as a result of bad mods moderating badly — but those communities would have a harder time taking off due to the name being less searchable, and individuals needing to be “in the know” about why one sub has “true” out the front.

With everyone being able to take the same community name, just across different instances, there’s a potential for a better, more competitive process to take place instead. It won’t be perfect — @starwars is going to be in a much more immediately advantaged position than, say, @starwars — but in theory the playing field is closer to being level.

We have the foreknowledge of seeing EEE happen with XMPP/Google Chat, now. We can fight back against EEE against ActivityPub as it actually happens, with instances defederating with Meta and so on, when they start actually taking those negative actions. It’s gonna be fine.

That’s using your Google account, with Google’s OAuth, to get into an Outlook account — which is still weird and confusing, and IMO something Microsoft shouldn’t have done because it’ll confuse people, but hey.

As per OP’s edits, yes.

No, it’s specifically “kbinbot”, case insensitive. Even “botkbin” gets through just fine.

Well, it’s been more than a hot minute. How long are folks supposed to wait? There’s ultimately only two feasible scenarios here, given the details we have at hand.

They’re very visible!

They’re Tankies. Don’t confuse Tankies and communists, even if there’s a certain historical adjacency there. They are ultimately different concepts.

Something something, that’s how you get a Nazi bar.

Well that’s a bit fucked. I figured that maybe they’d just tried to block bots, but no, “testBot” goes through just fine. They specifically seem to be rejecting “kbinbot”, though, not just anything with “kbin” in it.

The submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreck.

Nah, I mean more that I think relying on people to just post stuff themselves would be better for the community. But scraping would be the way forward, relying on the API would be prohibitively expensive IMO.

No, no, I think it would ultimately be better to rely on people to post stuff. But scraping links would be better than using the API.

I don’t think basic scraping will be particularly difficult, especially if the rates are kept low. While I also don’t think it’s actually the right way forward, I’ll happily help out.