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imaqtpie

@ imaqtpie @sh.itjust.works

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  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.

    But I've only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can't presume to judge you.

  • Community level federation

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  • I'm not so sure they want to "persuade the leftists", I think they probably just want to find other conservatives to validate their feelings. But there isn't any space for that on Lemmy atm.

    They'll probably need to make their own servers, which will immediately get defederated en masse. But I think Lemmy should be for every human being who seeks knowledge, even conservatives. That doesn't mean we need to federate with them, but that's the nature of open source software. You can't pick and choose who uses it.

  • Community level federation

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  • I just try to avoid it entirely. Every post gets heavily downvoted anyway because conservatives are totally outnumbered on Lemmy. So it's mostly people mocking them.

  • Community level federation

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  • I feel like it's so confusing if you just see the comments without the posts. But also the comments are the best part of Lemmy so it kinda makes sense.

    I'm already addicted to Lemmy so that's not an issue

  • Community level federation

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  • Wow. I never even noticed that option before. That's actually pretty cool.

    But kind of sounds like a bug in that case, because if the admins wanted to remove the community then it shouldn't be possible to view comments from there either.

  • Community level federation

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  • If you can't see the community itself, then how are you seeing comments?

    When you view people's profiles?

  • Community level federation

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  • Pretty sure that's been a thing for a while. It's like when lemmy.world blocked !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. They are still federated but they just blocked that one community.

    I assume that's what lemmy.ml is doing with the conservative community.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Ok cool. Tfw there are so many great apps for Lemmy but you can only use one at a time 😔

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Mother of God, I did not realize that he's pushing 70k comments.

    Btw are you just joking or isn't there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people away from truly revolutionary platforms.

    Of course it has to seem like a plausible alternative, but is it actually decentralized or altruistic enough to make a meaningful difference? I think not.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it's understandable that he didn't. Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.

    But beggars can't be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.

  • Eric Adams and NYC sue Trump over $80 million in FEMA migrant funds

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  • Meh, there's little reason to think Adams knows which way the wind is blowing. More likely that he just needs to make a ballsy bet to salvage his career, and going against Trump is a guaranteed political win in NYC.

  • The best instance to host a big community in Finnish?

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  • I agree, I think Lemmy should add an option to fetch all the historical posts from a remote community. Right now it just starts federating from when the first person subscribes to that community, but it would be better if it was retroactive.

  • The best instance to host a big community in Finnish?

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  • Wow, TIL.

    I based that off fedidb but it seems to be very inaccurate. Obviously it wasn't tracking until a certain point in Lemmy development.

    I'll make a list of the major instances from before the APIcalpyse of June 2023 that are still active. For the Lemmy historians 🧐. I'm mostly basing this by the top admin account on each server, because the admins are listed in order of seniority in the sidebar.

    • lemmy.ml - Apr 2019
    • lemmygrad - Aug 2019
    • hexbear/chapo - July 2020
    • szmer.info - Aug 2020
    • lemmy.ca - Dec 2020
    • sopuli.xyz - Feb 2021
    • midwest.social - Aug 2021
    • mander.xyz - Dec 2021
    • beehaw.org - Jan 2022
    • slrpnk.net - April 2022
    • feddit.it - May 2022
    • lemmy.blahaj.zone - Jan 2023
    • infosec.pub - May 2023

    Honorable mention to feddit.de which was an early instance too IIRC and now lives on in feddit.org

    This is largely just an interesting piece of trivia, but also somewhat notable because servers generally don't federate content from before they were founded. So the older servers will have local copies of posts and comments from the early days of Lemmy.

    For instance @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz actually has 2.37k posts and 1.73k comments. But sh.itjust.works only caches about 850/800 posts/comments from that account, because we only joined the network in June 2023.

  • The best instance to host a big community in Finnish?

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  • Surely has to be https://sopuli.xyz/

    The admin is a Finn, although the servers are technically in Germany.

    Also it's extra cool because it's one of the true OG Lemmy servers, founded in June 2021.

  • Fediverse House at SXSW (March 9-10)

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  • All centralized services. The fediverse is theoretically resistant to that kind of process.

    Also you forgot Limewire, the GOAT

  • FediDB.org has resumed crawling with robots.txt support

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  • Finally, I have been waiting for this.

    Lemm.ee over 4,000 MAUs. Lemmy.ca and lemmy.dbzer0.com up to 1.5k after hovering around 1k for most of 2024. All of the major servers seeing solid growth. Good work lemmings, keep it up

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    I created a community for the popular trucking game "Snowrunner"!

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  • Snowrunner is dope, on god fr fr

    Also welcome to Lemmy if you're new! Or even if you're not, thank you for your contribution 🫡

  • Wheel of Time - for both the book and show fans

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  • It's not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I've only read it once and that was over a decade ago.

    The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It's just such a daunting task to get started 😅

  • SCP-999 is a good boi (SCP Animation)

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  • It'd be nice if we could set Marv up on Lemmy