ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @programming.dev

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Can't wait until the ability to block instances is introduced.

nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active

This is false. There's about a 10:1 ratio of Lemmy accounts registered to lemmy accounts posting comments.

Active accounts on Lemmy instances is in the tens of thousands. I like it for the most part, but it's not really a significant part of the 1.5 million in the graphic.

1.5 million is almost entirely Mastodon users which have no clue how Lemmy's commenting culture works so rarely contribute in a way that makes sense to both the Mastodon commenter and the Lemmy comenter/poster at the same time.

Lemmy has ~20k ish actively commenting accounts.

This feels like gossip and I wish that Lemmy would let me mark this post as hidden.

Copy something until you're inspired to improve it or some other thing.

Wild how many components are not explicitly licensed as anything at all.

It seems like you're taking this statement very personally. It was meant to describe the circumstances from a detached perspective (mine). The value of an account on alien.top is much more heavily influenced by lemmy.world than the other way around currently.

You really should try to talk to them, it would help both instances and the experience of users on lemmy instances in general if you could bridge the rift that currently exists.

I don't see a way to continue this conversation as I don't see indication of good faith on your end. You've seemingly made up your mind that I'm a bully and was not trying to have an honest discussion. Which means an honest discussion can't be had regardless of my intent.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

I think it's hard to regain trust, but it's possible. I think your intentions are good and communication is the best way to improve on an unfortunate situation.

That said, it's a very poor introduction to a new environment to be unknowingly thrown into a conflict on the side with little leverage and no understanding why the experience is so inconsistent with likely expectations, which is that one would be able to interact with the posts and comments they see.

I mixed that up. But it's not really better to have a significant portion of accounts not be able to see your posts or comments or be able to leave posts or comments on a large portion of the posts and comments.

It means that the alien.top users won't be able to see the content posted by a plurality of users on lemmy instances. About 40% of activity on lemmy instances is from lemmy.world. And many of the communities that are stand-ins for subreddits are on lemmy.world.

It's a poor initial experience to lemmy.

alien.top has been defederated from Lemmy.world.

On the contrary, my point is that his proclamations shouldn't be taken seriously at all.

Clever avoidance of potential trademark dispute with the name.

I'm not gatekeeping at all. I'm wondering why he's participating in a forum that ticks a lot of the boxes that he claims are reasons why not participating is a good thing.

It's not even a third place.

The idea that these puzzles which people are obviously enjoying are contributing to a poor culture among developers is not supported by his arguments. The author should simply make their case about the poor culture instead of shoe horning in a poor example of it backed with contrived reasons.

If you don't like the puzzles, ignore them. Same as any leisure activity, don't force it. There's nothing wrong with not participating. The author's idea that there is something wrong with not participating is his problem.

I think the author's idea of painting it as a dark third place is way off base (pretty much every point seems off base). Is reading a book a dark third place because you didn't write the book?

Third places are where you might have a conversation about the fun puzzle you solved, they aren't the puzzle.

Why are you active on programming.dev?

Are you from somewhere that's not the US? University of Southern California is not a particularly stand out school for academics costs 80k per semester. 8K a year is hard to beat in the US.