There's a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.
The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.
- Big batteries need cooling during charging.
- A/C units need to do heat exchange.
- Aesthetics
It's not as fast as I'd like either, but it's a lot better than the original USPS plan to replace them with diesel trucks.
Or, in this case, not being batty enough.
4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.
It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.
I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem
People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts
What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.
The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.
Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.