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Tell that to Jadav Payeng, who planted a forest by himself. He accomplished, on his own, more for the good of the world than most communities on Facebook ever w
by latexr 2y ago
Tell that to Jadav Payeng, who planted a forest by himself. He accomplished, on his own, more for the good of the world than most communities on Facebook ever will.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/jadav-payeng-the-man-who-planted-an-entire-forest-by-himself https://interestingengineering.com/science/jadav-payeng-the-...
- zdragnar 2y agoRural Facebook communities aren't trying to change the world. They're there for light conversation, gossip and organizing get-togethers. It's important to note that Jadav didn't get other people to change and join his crusade before it happened. He merely went out and did what he wanted. People were inspired by seeing it happen. People aren't going to be inspired by yet another social network touting federation and other technical mumbo-jumbo, because it doesn't help them do anything they weren't already doing on Facebook. This whole conversation is very strange to me indeed.
- latexr 2y ago> This whole conversation is very strange to me indeed. Because you’re not engaging with the point? For starters, the original claim was to “make the world a better place”, not “change” it. Beyond that, the point of my reply was to show that it is indeed possible to make the world better without communicating with anyone else (contrary to the original claim). Anything else is your own addition.
- jf22 2y agoEh, that's improvement, but the world didn't change because of a small forest.
- latexr 2y agoYou (and your parent comment) said “make the world a better place”, not “change” it. Very few things change the world meaningfully. And the point stands: what he did was more relevant than most (if not all) Facebook communities will ever accomplish.
- jf22 2y agoSplitting hairs. If you use a platform nobody uses to try and change the world you won't change it just like if you tried to plant trees without using seeds.
- latexr 2y agoThe point is precisely that you don’t need a social networking platform to do something meaningful.
- jf22 2y agoI don't think the author was talking about isolated change like planting some seeds. Real change requires humans to collaborate and work together.
- latexr 2y ago> isolated The whole thread is about limited and well-defined communities, not the world. What the OP wants is specifically “isolated”. > like planting some seeds Spending thirty years planting a 550 hectare forest and restoring wildlife to it is not “planting some seeds”. Please don’t be reductive. > Real change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman Change is change. You don’t get to define someone’s life work, which was more meaningful and impactful than most of us will ever achieve, not “real” to fit your narrow definition.
- scarface_74 2y ago50K people is a limited community to move to another platform???
- latexr 2y agoYes, yes it is. By definition. “Limited” means “restricted in size”, not “an arbitrary number a random person thinks is small”. From the moment OP defined “this is for this specific community of this size”, it is limited. It will be abundantly clear when they have moved no one, or every one, or a critical mass, or not enough. Because it’s limited, bounded, constrained.
- gabruoy 2y agoHe very literally did change the world. There wasn’t a forest there and now there is. In fact the conception of “the world” as an abstract global concept is much less impactful than what people see outside their window and in their city/community.