The amount of precise manipulation needed to do something as simple as repair the feeder mechanism on a welder,

If robots can build cars, I'd guess they can manage that.

I misphrased, they are an Admin/Op, and essential.

Renewables are way, way cheaper. Nuclear is finished. I'm sick of hearing its supporters never ending excuses.

Maybe I'm missing something, when I try to interact with Mastodon from futurology.today there's zero ability to interact. It seems to give the option to send DMs, but when I test it, they never arrive.

Yeah, that is a good solution. I've used the icon option to style just the main community. All the rest with a duller/smaller option delineates status.

pipedvideobot.

Thanks for that info, it very useful. I've been wondering about bots, we'd talked about writing one to cross-post the subreddit's content to the fediverse site.

We beta tested it for a while & went live today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/

It will be interesting to see how it does. r/futurology has 19 million subscribers, but I don't know what that means for the lemmy site.

I hope the Lemmy devs sort out email verification soon. We had so many problems we switched it off at futurology.today & went with limiting new sign-ups to a set amount per hour to combat bots instead.

Thanks for this, I'm passing it on to the developer. We've been assuming email verification is important to combat bots/trolls. I'll bring up the observation it isn't widely used. It often seems to be something to do with problems we've been having.

You've reminded me there's an error there (confusion with nomenclature) that I'll go & fix.