Yes, phages are the natural “antibiotic”/population control for bacteria. https://humanmicrobiome.info/#bacteriophages-phages

Antibiotics can make phages go extinct. https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#virome

Phages were being researched as an alternative to antibiotics, but antibiotics seemed easier and cheaper, so they grew in popularity and use. Unfortunately, antibiotics come with pretty severe collateral damage.

Something similar, that you can (and should) get involved in: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-fda-and-fmt-regulation-part-2-jul-2024-humanmicrobes-org-i-met-wit.520/#post-1370

“It wouldn’t surprise me that improving people’s health this way actually slows down the ageing process,”

Then you may be allowing preconceptions and biases to prevent you from processing new and contradictory information.

Your entire argument is climate change?

No, it’s not. You should click the link.

Nonsense. That’s an extremely ignorant statement. The current population level has been doing massive damage to our planet. https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/Archive/wiki#some-of-the-major-problems

largely to no avail

Great news. It’s insane how few people seem to care about the damage occurring from overpopulation.

General poor health has been increasing. Obesity rates and rates of lots of other conditions have all been increasing. It can’t all be due to microplastics.

Resistance is not the most concerning aspect of antibiotics, despite it being the most covered in the news. We need to be moving away from antibiotics.

https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#harms-of-antibiotics

Have you discussed how it’s dangerous for a single entity to control so much public information? For example, Youtube now randomly removes comments, including from the channel owner. So it’s impossible to have discussions and share information on Youtube now. Yet moving away is so difficult since they have a huge monopoly + the network effect.

Explaining to people that they should take steps to prevent this from happening on other platforms like Reddit should hopefully motivate some more people.

You may also want to mention that Reddit’s automated systems are faulty, and many people are at risk of losing their accounts and subreddits, and thus years of their work.

I listed my reasoning here https://maximiliankohler.blogspot.com/2023/06/reddit-is-dangerous-humanity-needs-an-alternative.html for why people should be moving away from reddit and other large social media companies.

You could even include examples of how Facebook and Twitter have declined and become problematic. The same principals (enshittification, etc.) put the entire internet at risk.

We have regular posting here now, often with topics not on the sub-reddit. My hunch is that an approach like - “Like r/futurology? - come to our other site for extra content” - might work better.

Yeah, that’s not a bad idea at all. You could create an automod sticky in every thread that says “Many of our content creators moved to our Lemmy instance for X reasons, so feel free to join us there for extra content”.

Do the admins care if there are automod comments in every thread notifying people about the benefits of open-source, federation, and your community here? If not, that may be one of the better methods.

I remember how you guys were one of the first big subs I saw use automod comments in every thread, instead of one sticky at the top of the sub, because you recognized that most people visit their homepage, not each individual sub.

EDIT: I would include information about how it’s dangerous for a single entity to control so much public information.

Hmm, I just read an article on chemical recycling that had a very negative take:

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica (Jun 2024) https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-delusion-of-advanced-plastic-recycling-using-pyrolysis-propublica.441/

But I don’t see Pyrolysis mentioned so perhaps this different method doesn’t have the same problems.

Good news.

Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT

We’re a long way (many decades) off from that. This blog goes into more detail with references: https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/stool-donors-one-in-a-million-ai-funding-potential

One of which is this page that shows the severe limits of current knowledge: https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/

More antibiotics is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.

• While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back.
• https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

Where are you hosting this? Hetzner has very good prices. I’m running multiple websites (including a forum) on a $5/mo server, using Centmin Mod.

I agree with the other suggestion to put up a link to Open Collective payments or another similar one. There are lots, if you need I can list some.

Oh my god, this is horrible news. Reddit is a horrible website and only getting worse. OpenAI promoting them and using their garbage content to train their AI systems is alarming. This is so dystopian.

And of course it always leads back to money:

Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit

Yes, I definitely expect the human lifespan and health span to continue to increase as the science of longevity advances.

Great news. I’m looking forward to living in a world with less than a billion people.

You missed the whole point of the article.