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.

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.

I may not be understanding correctly, but that seems like a huge downside to the current implementation of federation, and especially hurts new and small instances?

Using the user’s profile example in the OP, one of them doesn’t have comments from !lemmy.world/c/politics, so that means that no one on futurology.today has subscribed to /c/politics, and no results will show until someone does?

I see that https://futurology.today/c/politics@lemmy.world loads but the posts are all days old and there’s no “top day”.

Yes, it’s possible via kbin.social.

kbin lets you see who voted for what https://lemmy.world/post/3027601

Open any post on KBin. Click the url (x comments) so that the title shows in the URL, and add /votes/down. Eg:

• https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/329561/Is-is-possible-to-see-who-upvoted-downvoted-a-specific-comment/votes/down
• https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/329396/How-many-of-you-are-actually-chatbots/votes/down

The link is also at the bottom of every thread.

For comments, click on “more -> activity”.

The URLs are different so you can’t just edit the URL, you have to find the post on kbin.social: https://lemmy.world/post/8552850 vs https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/643937

If a kbin.social user comments on the thread you can find it that way (their fediverse link).