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  • They will say something like solar went from 600gw to 1000 thats a 66% increase this year and coal only increased 40% except coal is 3600gw to 6400.

    Hrmmmm, maybe these numbers are outdated? Based on this coal and gas are down:

    In Q1 2025, solar generation rose 48% compared to the same period in 2024. Solar power reached 254 TWh, making up 10% of total electricity. This was the largest increase among all clean energy sources.

    Coal-fired electricity dropped by 4%, falling to 1,421 TWh.

    Gas-fired power also went down by 4%, reaching 67 TWh

    https://carboncredits.com/china-sets-clean-energy-record-in-early-2025-with-951-tw/

    are no where close to what is required to meet their climate goals

    Which ones in particular are you talking about?

    Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0

    China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements – the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord – after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-china-says-committed-to-who-paris-climate-deal-after-us-pulls-out

    What’s that saying? You hate it when the person you hate is doing good? I can’t remember what it is

    I can’t fault them for what they’re doing at the moment, even if they are run by an evil dictatorship and do pollute the most

    I’m not sure how european defense spending is relevant

    It suggests there is money available in the bank to fund solar/wind/battery, but instead they are preparing for? something? what? who knows. France can make a fighter jet at home but not solar panels apparently.

    Prehaps they would be made in a country with environmental and labour laws if governments legislated properly to prevent companies outsourcing manufacturing. However this doesnt absolve china. China isnt being forced at Gunpoint to produce these goods with low labour regulation and low environmental regulation.

    You’re right, it doesn’t absolve china, and I avoid purchasing things from them wherever possible, my solar panels and EV were made in South Korea, my home battery was made in Germany, there are only a few things in my house made in China, most of them I got second hand but unfortunately there is no escaping the giant of manufacturing.

    With that said it’s one thing for me to sit here and tut tut at China, but I realise I am not most people, the most clearest example is the extreme anti-ai, anti-billionaire bias on this platform, in real life most people don’t give a fuck, they love Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Apple etc, they can’t go a day without them.

    So I consider myself a realist, if you want people to buy your stuff then you will need to make the conditions possible for them to WANT to buy your stuff, not out of some moral lecture and Europe isn’t doing that, if we look at energy prices:

    Can someone actually point out to me where this comes from? … At the end of the day energy is a small % of EU household spending

    I was looking at corporate/business energy use:

    Major European companies are already moving to cut costs and retain their competitive edge.

    For example, Thyssenkrupp, Germany’s largest steelmaker, said on Monday it would slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division by 2030, in a major corporate reshuffle.

    https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/High-Energy-Costs-Continue-to-Plague-European-Industry.html

    Prices have since fallen but are still high compared to other countries.

    A poll by Germany’s DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce of around 3,300 companies showed that 37% were considering cutting production or moving abroad, up from 31% last year and 16% in 2022.

    For energy-intensive industrial firms some 45% of companies were mulling slashing output or relocation, the survey showed.

    “The trust of the German economy in energy policy is severely damaged,” Achim Dercks, DIHK deputy chief executive said, adding that the government had not succeeded in providing companies with a perspective for reliable and affordable energy supply.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/more-german-companies-mull-relocation-due-high-energy-prices-survey-2024-08-01/

    I’ve seen nothing to suggest energy prices in the EU are SO cheap that it’s worth moving manufacturing TO Europe, and this is what annoys me the most.

    I’ve pointed this out before but they have an excellent report on the issues:

    https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3-412d-be4c-f152a8232961_en?filename=The+future+of+European+competitiveness+_+A+competitiveness+strategy+for+Europe.pdf

    Then they put out this Competitive Compass:

    https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/competitiveness-compass_en

    But tbh every week in the EU it seems like they are chasing after some other goal.

    This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago.

    Agreed


  • ngl same :|

    For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don’t care

    Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don’t want to support him in any way

    Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people









  • ikt@aussie.zonetoFediverse@lemmy.worldWe have to solve the money problem!
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    i was thinking you could do ads for people not signed in, then no ads for people logged in

    then for people logged in/signed up you could do discord style nitro benefits, fancy name tag, just extra stuff that supporters can get to show their support for the place

    but in isolation no good because what’s to stop another instance just giving it away all for free? it’s like the place is self undermining, it’s the most cut throat environment to be in while being worse to work for than any it slave pen, at least at the end of the work week you get paid, here you’d be expected to work for free :\



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    then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve

    This is the natural end result of every volunteer run instance, you don’t find it odd that over the last 40 years of the internet not one fediverse like server or community has survived or even been mildly popular?

    I’ll repost this because for some reason the other post got deleted, it was regarding lemm.ee shutting down, they were concerned that one of the largest Lemmy instances is shutting down and the future of Lemmy:

    You’re 100% right to be concerned and to be honest I have doubts lemmy will ever crack more than a few million users, the same thing happened with Mastodon, something that relies so heavily on volunteers running the infra almost inevitably results in burnout because the fediverse works on a disincentive basis:

    Basically the more popular a server is, the more funding it requires, the more admins it requires, the more work it requires, and all of this is on a slim margins or more likely requiring on people to donate time/money/effort ‘for free’ is a huge ask.

    The supply of people sitting around doing nothing all day who care enough to dedicate their time/effort/money to running a social network… for free… is a very small group, almost as small as the amount of people who are willing to donate every month to a social network.

    You can find mods of communities are usually fans of the communities they mod, it’s a topic they enjoy and so the incentive for them to invest their time is to keep their community clean and great. But running a social network which has hard costs not just time is a whole other thing

    This is opposed to a regular website or social media network, where as it gets bigger, it makes more money through ads/subscriptions, the incentive is to get bigger to make more money

    And then they can simply pay for the hard costs like hosting costs/bandwidth and people to do the shit no one wants to.

    The reality for me is that the money has to come from somewhere, you can do a paywall like newspapers do or beg for donations every page visit like the guardian/wikipedia do, or the usual suspect allow advertising, but the money has to come from somewhere.

    Thus the fediverse has a disincentive to growing larger, it is simply easier and more sustainable to remain small