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Stopping all fediverse activities. Good bye. Absolutely stupid indisriminate bans by mods on various instances make it clear to me lemmy and fediverse does not want content.
if I ever get back to fediverse It would be on my own instance as its clear to me nothing short of that is going to work.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 34 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

Blackout one night up in the mountains. Whole island has gone dark. Next island too. Noticed the majesty of the Milky Way in all it's glory.

Not a faint shadow, or a slightly bright smear, a glowing bright wide trail extending from horizon to horizon.

I may never see such a thing again. It shook me.

We've crippled ourselves as a species by depriving ourselves of the stars.

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

And stuff like StarLink sats are killing the view even more

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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Eventually the satellites will bounce off each other and destroy everything up there. I welcome it.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I feel genuinely sad the modern world has us miss out on something as beautiful as the stars in all their glory, something that always promised wonder longer than we've been a sentient species.

For uncountable millenia, the milky way was the standard night time viewing, and we've lost it in the last couple centuries :(

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

It's so sad so many people grow up and maybe even die thinking the nightsky is a few dozen stars.

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Man, I've seen that once in my life, about 40 years ago and I still remember that. Truly one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

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