JohnnyEnzyme @ JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee

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Thanks for explaining. So I guess that kind of thing is an artifact of the language being originally designed... what, ~100yrs ago? Still, since the main point is ease of learning and simplicity, maybe this is just something worth putting up with for the time being, no?

Oh, sorry. It's a classic Sanskrit Buddhist mantra. I was switching gears there.

Anyway, good to hear about "La," thanks.

Om mani padme hum.

So do I have it right that gender is mostly neutral? One of the things that kills me about FR (and SP) is the need to clutter my limited brain space with useless gender nonsense.

French.
I figured since I was exposed to it for a year as an infant, it would help me out when I was farting around with electives in school. Well, nope-- that 'infant period' was just too early I guess, and classroom learning didn't work for me, regardless.

What actually helped a tonne was just vacationing in Paris for a week (i.e. helpless immersion), and later, developing a passion for Franco-Belgian comics, which led to me using the DuoLingo app on phone whenever I'm bored or have a spare moment.

~Six months in, I'm just blown away by how much I can read without too much trouble. Google's vanilla "Translate" app helps a bunch when I'm stuck. Of course it's also good to have other aids, such as a handy chart of verb conjugations, etc, but really it was just DuoLingo that caught me on fire.

Feel free anyone to drop by our Lemmy community devoted to European graphic novels if you're interested.

Yes, I found it well-written but not all that enlightening. I recognise that it made sense for SpaceGhost/CheapSkate to build his sites out by hand in the true spirit of DIY, but that doesn't seem too practical or advisable for most folks.

The various federated software & networks may have their weak points and inconsistencies, but far as I can tell it's still best for volunteer site runners to work within that framework so as to remain connected to something bigger than just their little personal corner of the internet. Is it really so expensive a thing to federate? I seem to recall that some instances can host for only ~US$20, which doesn't seem bad at all. Images are arguably best stored at other sites like Imgur, anyway.

@Blaze@reddthat.com

Dear lord, you're the best!

Oh, oh, oh...

I'm in tears right now

Can I have my community back, please?

https://lemm.ee/post/31540584

I did try logging in that way and then clicked around the stuff you mentioned, damn.

Still nothing.

EDIT: Let me take a nap right now, and hopefully this will all be a ridiculous dream a little later..

Thanks, tried it just now. Got this:

Yes, "DELETED BY CREATOR" was the very first thing I noticed! 😠

But yes, I looked around the upper-right, but didn't see much of anything like a "Restore" link. Now I did try pressing the "Joined" button, and now it looks like this:

Ugh, so now I've made the whole situation somehow worse?

Oh, but check this out-- I have a "homepage" community under my same ID ( https://lemm.ee/u/JohnnyEnzyme) and I notice that the EDIT button:

...sits weirdly right next to the trash-can icon:

So... I guess probably I touched the one whereas I meant the other??

Thing is-- such a thing was almost inevitable* as someone who tried to keep updating our site documents (resources and FAQ).

Exactly, thanks.
All of our individual post URL's seem to still be there, but the front-page seems to be weirdly in a "deleted" status.

Oh shoot, I meant the above for @small44@lemmy.world actually, i.e. OP. I don't believe you had replied to me at any point, hence that wasn't meant for you.

That said-- I'm not too sure the "90:9:1" rule applies so well to the FV. For one thing, it seems like a good number of subscribers tried out Lemmy (etc) at some point and then went back to Reddit (etc), meaning they're no longer really here. Another point is that since the FV moves a lot more slowly than Reddit, I question whether FV users are as active here compared to other places.

About the bias of me seeing only part of Small44's community numbers due to filtering by my own instance-- you're right of course, but after double-checking their overall global numbers, they're actually only a tiny bit larger. Ironically or not, most of their users came from my own instance (lemm.ee). So their numbers across three communities are really too small to ever be properly viable IME.

So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.

Geez, that's... not good. :S

https://lemm.ee/u/small44@lemmy.world

Hmm, it looks like you're mod of ~three fairly dormant communities that have very small user bases. Unfortunately, at that size I wouldn't think there'd be much in the way of regular comments, much less guest posts.

In my case I was lucky, because a co-mod and regular poster happened to join in early-on, and we were able to build up the first couple hundred users fairly quickly.

But something else that I think helped a lot was that our community is very visual-oriented, so it was pretty easy to find users who were perfectly happy to join up just to look at pretty images without necessarily clicking links or putting too much thought in to anything deeper. So pandering to the lowest common denominator of user interest seems to work nicely for building up base numbers. That said, there's still a lot of growth we need to do, which likely involves outreach of some kind or another.

There's absolute mass quantities, as Beldar the Conehead might say.

It's easy enough to guess that plenty of people just grabbed a community name in case they might find it useful one day, but I'm guessing plenty of others legitimately started up a community, put some effort in to it, then ultimately got discouraged and abandoned it. A big part of that likely due to not being able to attract many subscribers and contributors.

Personally what I've found is that if you really want a community to grow, you need to seed it with content on a regular basis; preferably daily. Posting bots are probably a good way to help with that, altho if the sub looks like it's little more than bot posts, I don't think users will be inclined to post or comment much.

What I haven't quite figured out myself is how to incline users to post on their own, but hopefully with time that issue will kind of resolve itself due to sheer user count.

Btw, see here:
https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow

Excellent; was going to post about the Cornella vibes.

I'd previously uploaded a collection to Imgur with a NSFW tag, but they deleted it.

lemmy alternative

As long as it federates, hey?

it’s a shell of its former self.

And from my reading, its former self was little more than a dictatorship with 'communist trappings,' anyway. Mao was a monster, and nobody to be emulated from what I've learned.

Came here to make this point.
The CCP's version of "communism" is almost a textbook example to me of how an interesting system that can work beautifully on the local level can be completely betrayed and turned in to something much more like an oligarchy.

I don't understand how someone of reasonable knowledge and judgement could possibly be a tankie in 2024.

THIS, my friends, is the single greatest punching-through-reality accomplishment of "HwH."

Now, whether @FauxPseudo@lemmy.world perfectly agrees with my take or not upon this particular one, we're now in to the realm of great philosophers, and arguably even the mechanisms of quantum physics.

It is just awesome IMO.

And almost randomly-awesome at that!
Cue Andy Kaufman moment.. oO