The 90-9-1 rule holds for most stuff like this, and while the early adopter crowd like the current Lemmy population might conceivably skew the numbers slightly, I wouldn’t expect it to be by much.

57k MAU is still small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Niche subs still rely on single users doing almost 100% of the posting and will remain that way until probably way over 100k MAU. Maybe 200k?

Anyone up to date on the Iceshrimp .NET rewrite? It looks like it’s sort of up and running from the GitHub page, but they don’t run a flagship instance themselves. Is there any instance up and running it at the moment?

Truth be told it’s probably both more manual labour and more stress and uncertainty than I could handle, even though the peaceful seclusion out in nature speaks to me deeply.

Do you ever regret it, or are you happy about the tradeoff even during times of struggle?

In that case I’d rather not! 😅

I don’t really like people looking at me, and I don’t like the noise and clamor of families with children. I guess I’m a bit of a miserable misanthrope at my core. Those crowded typical beaches have never really appealed to me. Give me some secluded cliffs by a forest lake though and we can have a conversation.

LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It’s a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they’re in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they’d implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that’s unreasonable to assume.

Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don’t know if that’s wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?

I need more details! Is it a sandy beach or cliffs? Is it secluded or populated? Is it tropical or temperate?

Man you are literally living my dream.

Man, thinking about that makes me so depressed. Growing up we’d have the snow cover lasting for months on end during the winter, commonly several feet of snow too. These days we’re lucky if the snow remains for a week before it thaws even at the height of December.

Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I empathize with their plight but it’s what, 0.6% of the Lemmy userbase? I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

Hey now, equating MAGA to coronavirus is a gross injustice to coronavirus!

How dare people play with their dolls in the way they enjoy!?

I mean, it’s not like that at all though? Even setting aside the popularisation of the free-to-play model and its monetisation - which has defined mobile games (an industry dwarfing all other types of games in revenue by the way), FarmVille was the first innovator in terms of really invasive big data analysis of customer behaviour to maximise profit and retention. The way Zynga did player data analysis (back in 2009 I might add) literally set the tone for all modern internet. There are plenty of articles about the influence of FarmVille, here’s one.. There is another one here.

Beeing a teenager definitely is a superpower you’re not fully aware of or sufficiently appreciating at the time. Drink a bottle of vodka in one night and wake up and go for a run? No problem.

The absurd mix of some legitimate and appropriate choices, some completely unqualified recent releases that haven’t even had time to exert an influence and a winner that is completely bizarre and out of left field is absolutely something else.

Shenmue? Really?

I think FarmVille might genuinely be the “correct” answer for this question, but it was never going to win a popular vote contest like this.

I read a book called The Spiritual Tourist by Mick Brown. Very easy read. It’s sort of half a travel story with some great moments and scenes from exotic locations and half an exploration of fringe religion.

Very enjoyable, although in an effort to remain neutral and open minded in tone he might have given some of the subjects a little too much benefit of the doubt. Still a very fun read, would recommend.

Oh, you know what happened? I just realized, I hadn’t even read the introductory material and realized it was from a public survey. It’s a “first past the post” problem.

First past the post is remarkably shit isn’t it. I think your analysis is completely right.

Funny how that works. Wonder if not mentioning it will help remedy that?

The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (…)

Mention Lemmy for once 😠

I agree. For stuff like Mastodon and Loops I really want “For You”, not a simple chronological feed.