And in some cases, using metric would simply be worse in daily life.

No?

Like using Kelvin instead of Celcius

They are the same thing. They just use different starting points.

meters per second instead of kilometers per hour

Meters per second and kilometers per hour are both the same system, called the metric system.

seconds in general instead of hours and days

What are you on about? Seconds, hours and days are all part of the same system.

Fun fact: The fuel consumption of a car that needs 10 litres / 100 km (24 miles per gallon) could be simplified to 0.1 mm2

Actually no. 10 L = 10 dm^3 = 10 000 cm^3. That means 10 L / 100 km = 10 000 cm^3 / 100 km.

To simplify further:

10 000 cm^3 / 100 km =

10 cm^3 / 100 m =

0.1 cm^3 / 1 m =

0.1 cm^2

0.1 cm^2 != 0.1 mm^2

Is it metric? Yes. Is it practical? Not really.

It was already metric from the start before any mathematical simplification was done, so the metric system was definitely practical here.

Is the simplest mathematical form always the same as the simplest practical form? Definitely not, but that has nothing to do with the metric system.

I just downloaded it for the first time and I'm currently using it to type this comment.

It will take some practice to get used to this. 😅 Thanks for the recommendation.

It's really good more people are talking about Lemmy on Reddit. It gives Lemmy more exposure and more and more users are making the switch from Reddit to Lemmy because of it! 🎉

We should all be making posts regularly on Reddit about how to easily switch to Lemmy. 💪

People are more ready now than ever before.

I haven't been a moderator for any community on Lemmy, so I don't know if this feature already exists or not, but I think it would be very useful for moderators to be able merge communities. Users from the old communities should be automatically subscribed to the newly merged one, while the old communities gets removed.

This requires some way for mods to send merge request to mods in other communities, and for those mods to accept that request if they want to.

Every unique post should of course remain unchanged in the new merged community, with all its votes and comments intact. Duplicate posts however should always get merged if they belong to the same user, meaning that now the merged post will likely have more comments and votes than any of the posts it was merged from.

There should also be an option for mods to move a community to a different server.

With this, we can make Lemmy much easier to navigate for it's users by merging multiple similar communities while also increasing the activity in those merged communities since they will now have more users.

Since Lemmy is still growing, a lot of the infrastructure isn't in place yet. This means communities will exist on servers available at the time of their creation rather than the more suitable server for that community that might show up in the future. Ability to migrate communities (and users) from one server to another is essential for Lemmy to stay decentralised.

Jag vill även slå ett slag för dessa sidor som hjälper oss att hitta Europeiskt producerade alternativ till produkter som vi annars är vana att importera från andra kontinenter.

Det är alltid bäst att köpa så lokalt som möjligt för både miljöns och självständighetens skull.

https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://www.goeuropean.org/

Tjohoo! 🥳

Jag har längtat!

This is a tricky thing to do. I'd say start with yourself. On your journey you will find what could be interesting to which family member. All of them doesn't have to migrate at the same time with the same product.

Small steps is always easier to take.

Det hade varit intressant att höra vad de som jobbar med infrastrukturen har att säga om saken. Varför fungerade det förr, och varför fungerar det så dåligt idag?

Det låter som ett bra nyårslöfte 😊👍

Jag kan själv börja med ett förslag. Ett enkelt sätt att få feddit.nu att bli mer levande är genom att använda bottar. Jag vet att det låter tråkigt, men det är förmodligen ett av de bästa alternativen vi har.

Vi skapar några communities där bottar regelbundet postar relevanta nyheter som passar just den communitien med hjälp av RSS feeds eller liknande.

När vi sen har några communities med regelbundet postande så delar vi länkar till posterna på Reddit. Dvs. botten postar på Lemmy, inte reddit, men delar länkar på Reddit till relevanta samtalsämnen och poster som skapats på Lemmy.

Detta tror jag är ett säkert kort för att dra över medlemmar hit. Vad tror ni?

Jag gjorde samma sak först, sen upptäckte jag att det går att söka efter communities över alla servrar istället för att gå in på varje server var för sig. 👍 Det gjorde allt mycket enklare.

Tjena! Jag är också ny här! Vet inte riktigt vart man ska börja, men det faller väl på plats så småningom. Jag har mestadels använt reddit och instagram som mina huvudsakliga medieplattformar men vill gå över till oberoende alternativ.