cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/58909207
Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world’s largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals.
“We found, for the first time, that human-led intervention can effectively enhance carbon sequestration in even the most extreme arid landscapes, demonstrating the potential to transform a desert into a carbon sink and halt desertification,” study co-author Yuk Yung, a professor of planetary science at Caltech and a senior research scientist in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Live Science in an email.
Nice observation : at least 10k comments should back these 3k+ posts, allas, only about 50 (so 0.05k) comments there … a bit concerning i say.
My rule of thumb is if a user has more than one post a day on average, I block them. At least on my other account I did that.
I don’t think regular people post that frequently. If they do, it’s likely just manual irritating spam.
I post a lot some days, nothing others. Am I blocked?
Haha, probably. I’m sorry about that.
The issue I think is mostly due to people thinking they need to crosspost or post the same content in multiple communities like this is Reddit. Since Lemmy is so small, people are likely to see both posts back to back in their feeds, so it’s just redundant and spammy. That’s mostly why I block accounts that post a lot.
It would be a really nice quality of life feature for Lemmy to add filtering so this kind of thing could be dealt with without blocking.
you wrote :
" … the main issue is that Lemmy is a fraction of the size of Reddit …"
let me guess that you are feed up with censorship at Reddit … i left it about 3 years (4?) ago … after they blocked access through “api” so that Teddit was blocked.
Haha, yea. I also left Reddit when the API change happened.
I thought I was breaking the Voyager app with the number of accounts and communities I was blocking on my original account, so I made this new one. I needed to force close the app whenever I tried viewing the whole blocked list…
Currently i only block about 125 users and out of these 11 have been banned … at one point, maybe a year ago, i may have blocked 500 … never used an application though.
Too much an intensive use (of social madium) may lead to stress and tendency to downVote, i went through that.
I rarely down vote, but apparently I’ve blocked 7148 users/communities/instances on my first account.