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  • It’s not like this initiative disallows you from building other high speed rail connections.

    It does though, raillines cost money and money is finite.

    When you build poorly planned highspeed lines any new line you want to build after that is going to be underutilized. Underutilized raillines will be (and have been) scrapped, which makes certain areas even less reachable by train

    I think a Rome-Berlin line makes somewhat sense, due to the south-west - north-east coverage you get. But Amsterdam-Berlin does nothing more than isolating the North of both the Netherlands and Germany even further



  • I do have quite a laundry list of remarks for Lemmy too. The bugginess and lack of features is understandable. But it is quite centralized and I see a future where it will be more centralized the more users will join due to a bit of a fundemental flaw of federation.

    Maybe these problems will be fixable. I hope so, because I think it is a really cool concept. But I am not sure if I agree with the execution of it. I would love to contribute to this project if these problems are fixable.








  • This thread really makes everyone look like a bunch of toddlers throwing temper tantrums.

    The fact is that Reddit is a a company and companies exist to make money. 3rd party apps are hitting their bottom line and they’re losing out on the 12 cent per user per month they are normally getting. Which roughly translates to a couple of million USD per year. Be honest, you would not donate millions of dollars out of the kindness of your heart either.

    They have the right to do this, and you have the right to leave reddit. But stop complaining about the people that do keep using reddit and want to keep using reddit.

    My personal opinion is that I do think the CEO has made some poor decisions, and the API pricing is on the high side. But there are many good arguments to be made to make the API priced

    Edit: these downvotes though, true reddit moment 🥲







  • Yeah, it is a bit of a flaw of the system in my opinion. While I do like lemmy so far, I do have a long list of things I want to point out in a longer post later this week.

    As a user you are at the mercy of your instance to be randomly cut off from your favorite communities. Of course you can sign up in multiple instances, but that kind of defeats the point of federation