Los Angeles has been turning their streetlights into EV charging stations. So if you need to charge - just park under a lamp and plug in.

The goal is that everywhere in the city will have charging, so presuming you can park near a streetlight you’ll be able to charge your car. After all - the streetlight needs power anyway.

That said - I bought my Model 3 when I was still living in an apartment. Charging wasn’t too bad. My job gave me free charging in the parking garage as a perk, and on top of that I had a Supercharger I could stop at on the way home if I needed it (which I rarely did). Usually I only used that charger if I was eating in that shopping center anyway, and typically my charging would get done before I finished waiting for my food (so I’d have to rush to move my car before getting idle fees).

The challenging part came when the pandemic started. I didn’t commute to work anymore, but my car would slowly die in the parking spot (just like how your phone can die in your pocket).

Every weekend, I had to take it down to charge it. This honestly wasn’t so bad. There was a charger by an In-N-Out, so I’d stop by and grab something to eat while I charged. There was a mall across the street with free charging as well, but during the early days of the pandemic they originally blocked a lot of the mall off.

After a couple of months I moved to a place with a garage, and now I charge using a regular wall outlet without any problem. But it really wasn’t too bad having to charge while in an apartment, to be honest.

One thing I think is interesting is how tildes.net is planning to handle moderation.

Basically - they give you broad powers initially, and take them away from you if you show yourself you can’t be trusted. So if you report a user and it’s a bad-faith report, they can ding you. If you keep making bad-faith reports, then over time you lose the ability to create reports at all.

By contrast - if you repeatedly prove to make good reports, and your reports are usually actioned upon, you become “trusted” over time and your reports may cause content to be removed as soon as you report it. (And of course - if a moderator restores a post that you got removed, that counts as a ding against you.)

Over time, trusted users get hand-picked to become moderators. This has the ability to create “power users”, of course, but a moderator that acts in bad faith can become less trusted over time and potentially loses their privileges. The thought is that the risk of power users is less than the detriment of an unmoderated community.

The issue is that the images would be hosted on the instance itself - meaning you’d have whatever got uploaded on a local computer.

Then you have to make sure that everything is legit and above-board before you get overwhelmed with illegal content and the cops start coming after you.

Elon is the cause.

He started doing sketchy things. Other tech companies saw that they were leaving money on the table and followed suit.

Let’s not forget that Elon also was the first of the tech companies to start layoffs. These other companies have been playing “follow the leader”, not caring that the leader is leading them to a pile of crap.

I’ve been on Lemmy for years now (before it could even federate!), but never really used it because there was nobody really here (and at the time there weren’t any good Android apps - that’s changed with Jeroba though).

The biggest competitor I’ve seen appears to be Tildes. I actually got an invite link to Tildes and have been trying it out.

The main difference is that Tildes is focused on high-quality discussion, trying to replicate old-school Reddit - before it went mainstream. Tildes purposely doesn’t have memes or cat pictures, and comments are closer to paragraphs than anything else.

I think that’s valuable… but I also know one of the big things that attracted people to Reddit were the memes. Not having memes is going to cause a lot of people to not want to stick around.

Lemmy is a lot more loose, so those people will be right at home. The main complaint I’ve seen from Reddit is that a lot of people are turned off when they see Lemmygrad as one of the most active instances, and they’ve been associating Lemmy with hardcore tankies.