SpaceX wants new regulations regarding satellite brightness.

Their own satellites (at least the second generation ones) fulfill the requirements set by the astronomers at the Rubin Observatory, +7 mag (10x darker than the original ones). Meanwhile the satellites of the competitors OneWeb and Amazon can’t fulfill them without major design changes, because the altitude the satellites orbit at makes a significant difference.

If the recommendations of the Rubin Observatory report were turned into regulations now, Starlink would barely be affected (they’d just have to stop the gen1 sat production a little early) while the competition would be set back several years.

For people who previously used SMS and had their contacts saved in the phone’s pre-installed contact app, WhatsApp could use all those contacts out of the box.

The bright line is Starlink satellites immediately after deployment.

Starlink satellites do have stealth features to make them less bright, but those are only active in normal operational mode. Immediately after deployment and while dodging space debris, they are more visible.

Really big map, mostly empty

We need more housing.

Yes, but without money from investors they’d have to cover the construction costs from taxes, so it’s not free either.

And government run initiatives have to be very careful with how they set their goals. If the legal mandate is to maximize the number of apartments constructed, and the people in charge are rewarded based on the number of apartments they created on paper, then the result will likely be the bare minimum of what counts as “apartment”, even if it’s not something most people would want to live in. That means that government initiatives need to specify in high detail what the quality of the apartments should be.

Investors have the goal of getting their money back through rent, so they will usually ensure that what they pay to build is something people will actually want to live in and pay money for. If the housing shortage is severe enough they too can get away with pretty crappy places, but if there’s enough housing available that renters can be a little picky, any investor who built bare minimum apartments would regret their choice.

Lemmygrad is blocked from federating with most other instances but still is a pretty large instance. Though that instance in particular is not very likely to look towards IPO.

It could happen if there was a very popular instance that didn’t federate with others.

Unfortunately, rent control does have issues in the long run. Less profit for landlords does mean less money invested in new construction by people looking to make a profit. Less new construction eventually leads to shortages. It’s great for those who already have housing, but those searching for a place to live have it more difficult under strict rent control. Though with how long construction projects take from planning to opening, this effect takes decades for any change to be noticeable.

As far as I can tell, Lemmy also auto-accepts moderators, but you can only do it with people who have posted or commented in the relevant community, because the “add as Moderator” button only shows up there.

Update: Seems to be back up!

German “Catastrophe” is “Katastrophe”. “Katzastrophe” is “Katze”+“Katastrophe”, which in english would be “cat” + “catastrophe”… oh.

It’s just the site, 3rd party apps still work lol…

Edit: Partially. RIF works on r/all, but not the home page.

Couldn’t you just make a new account on another instance and link to it on your old profile? Perhaps a feature to subscribe to export/import your subscribed communities would be nice.