Tried Mastodon for a few weeks, but it just seemed to be people talking at themselves. Despite claims that one needs to follow people & tags and that nothing is pushed, there was so much stuff I wasn’t following in my feed.
Also found the whole hashtag system to be incredibly frustrating. Their inclusion in comments breaks up the flow, to search (or block) you have to guess what things could be tagged as, then too many people tag stuff unnecessarily, so you effectively get masses of spam when trying to follow a topic.
On top of that, strongly disliked the need to follow strangers - it feels creepy & weird to me, no matter how interesting their posts are.
Oh and the rate of reblogging of very trite stuff was doing my nut in. Fine, if it is something you believe your followers will want to read, but otherwise it is more spam in their feed
Decarbonising steel production is essential if we are to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, but this energy-intensive process has been hard to clean up - until now
Using an extensive computer simulation of the climate, the global economy and the global energy system, researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have been analyzing different ways of mitigating climate change, together with colleagues from the US, China, Ireland, Finland and Sweden.
How many of you actually use microblogs? (kbin.social)
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Efforts to mass-produce green steel are finally nearing reality | New… (archive.is)
Decarbonising steel production is essential if we are to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, but this energy-intensive process has been hard to clean up - until now
Computer simulation provides 4,000 scenarios for a climate turnaround (phys.org)
Using an extensive computer simulation of the climate, the global economy and the global energy system, researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have been analyzing different ways of mitigating climate change, together with colleagues from the US, China, Ireland, Finland and Sweden.