Or there’s your take.

Life after high school is going to open your mind up.

doesn’t feel as active as the numbers suggest, that’s still an issue.

worth noting to those people who will read this and go: “I should browse /All and post nonsense everywhere to boost activity!”, please don’t. A community with a bunch of uninformed discussion is just as dead as a community with no comments.

Ehhhhhhhhhh… Considering activity was on a slow decline Sept-Dec (not counting August->Sept due to i-think bot-spam issues in the count)

The numbers didn’t really grow until the method to count active users was modified. We won’t know the impacts of growth/decline for another 2-3 months at least.

Not paid by them but I use it. I enjoy it because it lets me filter out bullshit sites and prioritize others. I’m not aware of another engine that does it to the degree of Kagi.

Basically everything I need to look up for work is now always on the top half of the first page just by pinning documentation sites and general reference like Wikipedia.

Don’t even need to go that far. It’s pervasive here.

Not active users, unless you’re willing to cite that claim. Maybe accounts created over the last few years.

Making Mastodon seem more active than what it is won’t help adoption.

Adding Threads would significantly help boost active user numbers but people are too busy crafting foil hats.

5 million on a currently-centralized platform is still doing significantly better than Mastodon.

The constant whininess of Mastodon/ActivityPub-services users is a fantastic reason to completely steer clear of it.

What do you mean “underperforming”? That’s just head-in-sand nonsense.

Basically 3/4th of the number of active Mastodon users signed up for Bluesky within the last few days.

You know that it is comically easy to scrape stuff off of the fediverse, right?

I’d wager the vast majority of instances aren’t utilizing any meaningful rate limits, and even if there are rate limits, just distribute your scraping across several instances.

Or just set up your own new instance and subscribe to literally everything you can find. You don’t even have to scrape, it gets pushed to you!

If you are worried about scraping, use Facebook. Facebook has teams of people who combat bot/scraper activity.

Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.

When has that ever worked?

Major grammatical error this morning for me – I’ve since edited my post. I meant that people will move away from ActivityPub-based software. If someone’s friends all adopt another platform, why stay on one that you aren’t getting connections, especially that’s hostile to letting you connect to the platforms your friends do use?

The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It’s pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.

The company behind a service becomes nearly irrelevant when federation comes into play. In theory, you defederate from servers who are bad actors.

But at the end of the day, people want to use social media to connect to people. The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

Anything remotely useful to connect to other people gets shouted down rather quickly and irrationally.

Look at the foam-mouthed Threads opponents.

It’s just embarrassing. This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?

There is simply no reality where everyone decides to switch to Mastodon. Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from ActivityPub-based microblogs.

I get the feeling the vocal people don’t actually want ActivityPub-based social media to be adopted by anyone (or just desperately need a hobby outside of complaint generation)

Opponents should use an instance that blocks the bridge if they’re concerned. But nobody should pretend ActivityPub is a private protocol.

theme

noun

ˈthēm

1a: a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation

b: a specific and distinctive quality, characteristic, or concern

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theme

I’m not sure who soured your milk today but “theme” is being correctly used here in English. It would take you less time to look it up than insert comment licensing links.

Oh how I miss the free time I had in high school.

Don’t let the comments here discourage you. A lot of people on Lemmy like finding reasons to get mad at the world. It’s basically the only hobby some people seem to have.

You’re not hosting a Tucker Carlson server to praise alt-right values or similar nonsense, you’re hosting a server for a very popular and sentimental franchise.

Have fun with it, hopefully it takes off. If it doesn’t, then hey you tried.

So many comments here are such incredibly low effort and echochambery that they’d be completely unwanted noise on either of those forums.

The technology communities are have a low signal-to-noise with the number of jump-to-conclusions reaction comments instead of discussions. That’s in contrast to a much more balanced blend of discussion/nuance/jump-to-conclusions on HN.

I don’t regularly lurk Metafilter but every time I visit, they seemed to have a substantially better signal-to-noise ratio than here when I browse around.

No way should they should consider federating until people clean their act up here.

Lemmy is nowhere big enough for any serious company to care about astroturfing here. Someone would probably get fired for suggesting it because of how low-reach Lemmy is right now.

A lot of people are tech or tech-adjacent here. For American devs in HCOL areas, a $3500 device can be completely within their budget.

It’s a new product. Some people are either excited about it, humblebragging, or just straight up bragging.

It only takes about 5-10 mins to read about how Lemmy works with instances and communities.

And when the news is “meh” and can’t easily be sold, just slap a clickbait headline on top and watch as people pour depressionporn into the comment section of Lemmy, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

My mental state with news greatly improved simply by putting more effort into understanding the news, not just reading the first article.

Everyone shouldn’t stop at the headline and recognize every news source has an incentive for why they publish news. Don’t stop at the first article or perspective that’s found.

I would love to know what time period everyone thinks was this era of perfection because the other decades sucked for a lot of different reasons.

Yeah, that was definitely annoying. I would’ve preferred to have some kind of official workaround but I figured something out that got me through until the updates.

I probably lean too hard into forgiveness on this stuff but I know a number of open source devs who have burned out for various reasons this past year and would much rather see slow development than risking a rush towards burnout.

IMO slow development isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

I like that there was a two month period for apps to adopt the new login mechanism and that they smoke test releases for a fair bit on lemmy.ml before releasing to the world.

That said, a few months ago I wanted to do a light fork of Lemmy to proof out a few very minor things on my mental wishlist but just haven’t had the free time to meddle with Rust.