I think both 0 screen time and infinite screen time are bad extremes for kids. Infinite probably doesn’t need explaining, zero is also not very effective because you’re likely gonna alienate the kid and they’ll be playing at friend’s houses anyway.
Personally I think the best approach is to try be a guide for your kid, not a policeman. Soon enough they’ll be on their own anyway, and the reasons will stick better than the rules.
Agreed
Yeah, I didn’t think about it, but your comment makes sense to me. I don’t know what’s best really.
Like in a discussion here on Lemmy that was just a little while ago, I think phone usage during school hours would be a far healthier and effective alternative. I’ve seen how it works in practice in 2 different countries, one with mobile phones allowed and one disallowed. And the complete ban on phone usage during school hours really goes easy and works well (as I see implemented in Dutch schools at least - you just hand over your device in the morning until end of school).
I don’t currently live in Australia so I may be ill informed, but the arguments sound made-up to me.
Hollonds said she’s worried the ban will adversely affect children who already struggle to find connection and belonging at school, citing LGBTQIA+ children, those with mental health problems, neurodiverse children, children with disabilities and complex needs, and children who live in regional and rural areas.
Doesn’t that sound exactly like the “can somebody please think about the children” argument? I mean, how will social media help those with mental health problems? There’s a ton of studies that social media only makes it worse, and by far.
Or in other words, don’t have hopes that some magical “social media” is gonna help the children. Do it, yourself. Support minorities around you. Be more welcoming of other genders/preferences. Talk to other people. That kind of stuff… It’s true that some gaps will need to be filled though, with kids around you getting less zombified by social media and instead asking you questions maybe, or playing games, or making friends IRL.
I’ve found that the other replies don’t really express my personal take on this, so I’ll go ahead and write mine down.
First of all, and it’s important, people’s take on such topics is heavily dependent on the country they live in. It’s legitimately hard to imagine why you would want to break government rules hard and be a good person if you live somewhere in Norway. And it’s legitimately hard to imagine a world where you really trust your government and think that the current levels of censorship is actually good if you live in a dictatorship country.
With this in mind, a comfortable and universal level of censorship simply doesn’t exist.
I think the lack of Tor support is valid criticism if you’re in a dictatorship. Of course, DNS-based solutions are not good-enough for you. I hope you’ll find something that solves your problems. Unfortunately a simple Lemmy instance is not a solution for you.
Generally, if I’d advise something, I’d suggest to look at what the project actually aims to do, not at what you think it should be doing. E.g. visit https://join-lemmy.org/ and there it says:
Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking,…
Well, does it sound like a solution made for people in heavily censored environments? To me – not. If you want to present your case and incentivize the Lemmy devs to ADD another perspective or direction to the software that they’re spending time developing, prepare your case and argumentation well. Explain your situation (e.g. “I’ll be hung if I speak freely where I live”, or more relevant, “my country heavily DNS-censors 90% of the good existing Lemmy instances, I’m deprived of good information you have circling here”), propose some solutions or offer help. I don’t know really. It’s up to you. Good luck with your seach
I think/hope it was a joke.
But none that I’d like or find healthy, to be honest.
I guess that’s a good first step… towards making gambling undesired and unapproachable overall, as much as possible.
(I’m assuming here that “simply” making it illegal overnight might not work and may only make it more attractive to some people. So the correct approach is to really make it less attractive.)
I confirm, I’ve personally edited a post 3 times over until a day later I’ve understood what’s exactly happening: https://lemmy.ml/post/37434570
Good writeup.
One thing that I would add to, is I would personally also consider buying drones from Ukraine. Production capabilities in Ukraine are limited by money right now, not by physical factories and such.
And at least for ground combat right now, Ukraine’s weaponry seems to be unmatched. The war changed too much over the course of 3+ years, the old strategies don’t work anymore. Drones really excel in terms of cost and effect. Small drone boats destroy large Russian ships, to a point that none of the latter can be seen in the Black Sea.
And by spending with Ukraine, you also help them fight off the invasion that they’re under.
You’re kind of proving my point right now, this comment and the downvotes above.
I personally feel somewhat uncomfortable with the strong political push in general-purpose channels, especially since lemmy.ml is supposed to be about free software.
Oh, I forgot one thing on the downsides. The onboarding captcha-like thingy on the lemmy.ml instance is quite elaborate where you have to quote some text from a Communism book. Instances like Memes are rich with upvotes and glorification of Stalin and of the Soviet Union. While I do agree on many of the downsides of for-profit culture (as you can see in my comment above for example), here it’s just extreme levels in my opinion. I personally feel somewhat uncomfortable with the strong political push in general-purpose channels, especially since lemmy.ml is supposed to be about free software.
That’s the other downside. I still use Lemmy as you see, but I felt it’s fair to share a negative point even if the overall conclusion is positive.
Good day! I’m here for around ~2 months.
Something that I like better here, is the higher average level of thought put in the comments. Fewer dismissive one-liners, fever thoughts that seem to start and end within a single second. That does not go for all communities, but I’ve received some great help when I posted some questions, and posts where I shared info got valuable comments too. Reddit can also be good for this - but sometimes not exactly on par to the quality level.
Another plus, and that’s obvious, Lemmy is a free platform where you know you won’t be cut away, or have to tolerate a bad UI with animations and opening treasure chests because the for-profit core of the business thinks it’ll sell well. (The legal goal of any Reddit emloyee is to maximize company’s profits. Not satisfy user’s needs. Only in the places where these two coincide you get something.)
I miss certain specific communities.
Also the feel of it sometimes: 9x% of all communities here are unofficial of course. And migrating your community here might be scary, of course, because the total number of Redditors is magnitudes higher (these redditors are not all in YOUR community, but the lizard brain is nevertheless afraid of such commitments).
A bit of both, different and the same. I think the people and their motivations are a lil bit different, and you can feel it. But it’s still also people. Having their jobs, doing things for fun or out of boredom, etc etc. So also the same in a way.
Perhaps a wrapping thought. For my posts and comments personally, I’ve felt that communities here are larger than what I thought they would be based on numbers. You do get responses and help even in smaller communities. Maybe it’s a phenomena that for a smaller group, the noise levels are lower, so more people can survive the noise and continue reading besides “best of the month” filters. So they would go on and respond to something that would otherwise be filtered out as overwhelming.
Dunno.
Onboard and tell us how it feels later ;-)
Personally I bookmark the last read post, and upon reading, bookmark the new one and unbookmark the old.
A feature from RSS readers known as grouping, where instead of a wall of posts you could see an overview:
Mechanical Keyboards (5)
Lemmy (3)
Not Just Bikes (2)
Another Community (7)
Some Community (1)
…
…
For each community you see the number of unreads. If you click on one of these entries, you get the posts of that community of course, ideally being able to set up a “read” marker that “I’ve read until this post here”.
One practical idea to not require API changes for this feature could be to use bookmarks as read indicators. It’s more in the “quick and dirty” realm of course…
A dedicated community has been created for this, see https://lemmy.ml/c/librephone (I just saw this community and joined myself)
I disagree with the strong sentiment in most other comments. It’s not a total crime to cross-post individual things manually. For example, I’ve recently de-facto cross-posted this, and it was fine: https://lemmy.ml/post/37434570
That being said, I would absolutely not automate such stuff. I think having to do it manually is a good barrier so that you’d post truly interesting to you stuff, and skip the rest. I wouldn’t even participate or encourage software that tries to automate this.
What could also help I think, is to have a high tax for property that is not rented out. (Where nobody is registered.) If, as a landloard, you know you’d have to pay 5% of the total house cost every year you don’t have a tenant, you would be strongly incentivized to rent out.
Well the share price could’ve risen due to expectations of a worse judgement. The analysis has to be a different one. Just profit/loss.
Success with the house!
From what I understood, the data comes from here: https://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/results-and-reports And specifically the national data here: https://www.acara.edu.au/reporting/national-report-on-schooling-in-australia/naplan-national-results
(The article didn’t reference its sources I think? My comment is to complement.)
That’s very odd… What percentage of the company now belongs to Australia?