imaqtpie @ imaqtpie @sh.itjust.works

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I don't understand the question. Pretty much all fediverse software was built with federation in mind from the start. They all started from scratch afaik, nothing was built on top of a centralized design.

They also happen to perform similar functions as earlier centralized websites, but that's simply because those are the ways that people commonly prefer to use the internet. People use it to share photos, stream videos, connect with friends, microblog, blog, browse content aggregators, etc.

There could definitely be new paradigms of internet usage waiting to be discovered, but if the fediverse can't even replace the existing functionality of the web first, it'd be very ambitious to start building brand new types of sites already.

In my experience most internet spaces that specifically cater to teenagers also tend to attract a lot of creeps. I think it's probably for the best to nominally limit Lemmy to adults only, especially at this early stage.

You're assuming that a centenarian couldn't set up a Lemmy server? That's ageism

That's true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn't post or comment.

But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we've seen some really nice organic growth, although it's not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it's really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.

Wow. Absolute legend

Lol nice, thanks for the link.

I've started dreaming in markdown 😅

Tbf, Kendrick Lamar is an unbelievably talented musician. Drake is just a lame ass celebrity, you can easily ignore him and be better off.

But Kendrick has made some really fantastic albums. If you're not into rap than you might not care too much anyway, but he doesn't belong in the same conversation as Drake, despite their dumb ass feud.

I don't even like hip-hop that much but Section 80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are easily among my favorite albums of all time.

Yes that's what I meant by inserting a line break. Btw you only need three hyphens.

I've become pretty adept with lemmy markdown, it's extremely useful for formatting

Amazing that we are already up to 0.19.9 and on the verge of version 1.0.

The project has come a long way since 0.17.4, when I first joined. Sometimes it felt like it was taking a long time but looking back it seems like it went so fast. Thank you so much to all contributors, especially Dessalines and Nutomic.

There is still much more to be done, but I also think it's good to reflect on how far we have come.

Very nice to see the fix for the spoiler bottom margin, I have been inserting line breaks after spoilers to alleviate that issue for quite some time.

Howl's flying house

Interesting story but it's also talking about how inflation was at 80% in Brazil in the 1980s, because they were printing money. What they did in 1993 with the URVs is a fascinating psychological experiment, but I'm not sure if it was the critical factor in stopping inflation. As per the article

It wasn't the only trick, obviously. While they put URVs in place, the group of economists made the government balance its budget and slow down on money creation.

So I feel like it was basic economic policy that mostly worked, rather than printing money and trying to dictate its value.

The world seems so simple when you have a simple mind. Must be nice.

Uhhhh, hexbear is supposedly like 20% trans or something. They have preferred pronouns baked into the software. Tankies on Lemmy vocally love trans people.

You don't actually have any rational explanation for what it is that is problematic about Nutomic, it's just something you heard somewhere and are blindly repeating.

I have a very long track record on Lemmy of opposing tankies, so the accusations of being a tankie apologist are easily disproven. At least for those who care enough to actually do their own research, instead of simply parroting whatever gossip happens to float into their ears.

First of all, that has absolutely no bearing on whether or not Nutomic is a tankie. So I'm assuming you concede that you were completely wrong about that.

Second of all, that's a screenshot of a private message.

What specifically bothers you about what he said there?

The removal of certain comments is intentional and politically motivated and I don't approve. But then when you see people getting banned from like 20 other communities in the modlog due to that one comment, I think that was sometimes unintentional.

IIRC that was an automated function that wasn't always intentional. Unfortunately I can't find the thread where I heard that. I believe it had something to do with a specific version of Lemmy though.

I've seen all the screenshots, c/meanwhileongrad is on my server. But many of those incidents have a lot of context that isn't captured by the screenshots, when you look more closely

On the contrary, I do pay attention to the subtleties. Dessalines and many of the mods on their most active communities are tankies.

But I've never seen evidence that Nutomic is a tankie, and many of the smaller moderators and users aren't tankies either.

In fact, if you ask hexbear and lemmygrad what they think of Nutomic, they'll probably tell you he's a liberal, enlightened centrist, or cryptofascist, which all mean roughly the same thing according to their idiosyncratic version of the English language. I.e., he has been pushing back against tankies and hexbears since well before the APIcalypse, back when almost the whole Lemmy userbase was tankie.

Talking about several thousand people as if they all share the exact same political beliefs and behave the exact same way is pretty much the definition of not paying attention to the subtleties.

There are already tools for that, and it will probably get easier with time. In general, people should be encouraged to create multiple accounts on different servers from the beginning, so they already have built in options if they want to leave.

I use different sorting algorithms on my different accounts and also have different subscriptions, so the front page often looks totally different when I sign into my alts. Some of them are even federated with hexbear 🫣. I always find interesting posts that I missed by doing that.

That's true, but I'm just pointing out that it's a leftist subreddit recommending lemmy.ml, so it's not going out to a generalized audience.

And honestly they're not as tankie as people claim, that title really belongs to hexbear and lemmygrad. The management of lemmy.ml is tankie friendly, but many or even most of the users are not actually tankies.

It's very complicated because they were the main server for a long time before any of us even joined Lemmy, and all of their public descriptions don't even mention leftism at all, it's just about privacy and FOSS. Many users have made accounts there and used it for years without really caring or engaging with the tankie allegations or posts. It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.

Hexbear on the other hand is actually worse than anyone could ever explain without experiencing it for yourself. So let's not forget the two servers are not identical.

It's unfortunate that the active c/datahoarder is on lemmy.ml, because it always derails the conversation into the tankie question. But it's honestly on brand for there to be multiple c/datahoarder communities on Lemmy. You know, for backup and redundancy purposes 😏

Shout out to @cm0002@lemmy.world for getting some activity going on !datahoarder@lemmy.world.