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Isn’t the Beaverton supposed to be a satire website?

If they’re a madman former KGB agent, backed with Nuclear weapons, then yes.

I ate the onion. Assumed it was “just” bad timing, but still.

I’m sure Carney would be happy to, so long as by “protect Canada’s ‘digital sovereignty’” you mean giving up sovereignty to the US and Trump.

Their older stuff was absolutely great. Theres a reason I tried to replace my original Logitech mouse with a duplicate twice. Its their more recent stuff (and esspecially more recent software) that have fallen off in quality.

The only reason they’re still so common is that you could swap out “Razer” in your comment with 90% of the other gaming or performance brands and it would be just as true if not moreso. I had to swap to razer after I had two Corsair mice failed in as many months, and what seemed like a software bug kill three Logitech mice (One I had been using previously, and two more bought to replace it, which were broken out of the box).

Have you tried having money? Thats normally how people get investors.

The graphs there for posts and comments are for count of posts on lemmy directly, total, not per month. The posts/month seems stagnant, although its hard to tell as the data shown there is burried by a couple of bot instances that completely hide the overall trend.

The posts and comments listed there are locally hosted total values (not per month)

I want to say we were supposed to learn them in second grade in Canada, but I personally never did. My memory isn’t good enough, so to this day, I just work it out in my head. For small numbers like 1-12, its easy enough to break it down to smaller parts and solve quickly anyway.

The last graph is total posts across Lemmy, so its only about 300,000 posts a month, although notably, about 250,000 of those are on a bot server no one is federated with.

For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:

• Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.

• This is now fixed, but you didn’t used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.

• On Lemmy, there doesn’t seem to be any search operators, nonetheless ‘-’. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.

So far as I know, there aren’t a lot of 8-player local multiplayer games. The only obvious answer is the Jackbox games, using your phones as controllers.

Beyond that, I did find this Steam curator, who seems to specialize in 8-player games. From thier list, I recognize Gang Beasts, and Pico Park: Classic Edition. Party Golf, Screen Cheat, and Cobalt also all looked interesting, but I’ve never seen anyone play them.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think Boomerang Fu or Overcooked support 8 players?

So basically the same thing they’ve been asking for for the last two years. Biggest difference now is that Russia’s military and economy are so damaged that it’ll be much longer before they next break the peace treaty.

Sounds like the better option is just to offer proper support to Ukranie and wait for Russia to colapse, so there won’t be a next time.

I’d expect that, although I’ve noticed this trend continuing (and seemingly getting worse) for months now.

Looking at the more detailed breakdowns, it looks like there are a couple of servers (Lemmit.online, alien.top among others) with huge numbers of posts/comments that appear to be entirely bots. Are those counted in the stats? Could those be messing with the overall graphs? If Lemmit’s quarter of a million posts a month are counted, its going to make the monthly posts stat useless when even .world only has about 15k posts a month.

Edit: Comparing the graphs to the server list, it looks like Lemmit is counted, so the main graph is likely misleading. I did look through some of the bigger servers, and their rate of posting seemed fairly linear, but there isn’t a good way to check overall.

I’ve definately noticed it too. I’ve tried to look for stats, and most seem to indicate that there is plenty of activity, but I dont really see it. At this point, I can scroll through the day’s all feed in like 20 minutes, nonetheless my subscribed feed. I kind-of wonder if theres one or two instances with a lot of bot activity effectively inflating the numbers.

Edit: Is there a way to see monthly posts by instance, or compare percentage of posts? That would be an easy way to prove or disprove my bots theory.

Edit 2: fediverse.observer shows monthly (Or rather, total by month) local posts by instance but not federated, and their overall stats are warped by a few bot instances that you can’t filter out. That said, for local posts on a few of the big instances, the rate seems stable. That said, smaller instances are shutting down so I don’t know if that has an impact on the overall posting rate.