If you find out, let me know…or post? Cause ive been looking for something like that for years in the software development side. The most consistent has been google translate…but its not the greatest API and expensive for anything other than corps. Most sites are just looking to make sure they meet requirements, thats it.

True. I modified my comment.

Theres a mix of tools that look like they are useful in someway. Or just neat and ive never head of them.

I mean software development as a whole, probably. Just knowing how to code in a somewhat larger org can open up job opportunities later on.

Fediverse specific…probably not. My cynical side thinks that most lose money/spend much more than we take in from the fediverse. Most projects are just passion projects with very little budget. But dont believe me, try it out! I want to be wrong on this.

Its interesting, theres a lot of links she references that I was not aware of in the fediverse (and otherwise).

• https://calckey.world/ looks like a microblogging platform.
• https://www.deepl.com/en/translator translation service.
• https://loops.video - still not sure 100%. Ticktock fedi? Is it any good?
• https://clubb.cymru/2024/04/25/linux-mobile-safer-phone-for-childern/ - I want this really bad. A linux phone that doesn’t suck would be nice.

Love that channel. If anyone wants to contribute: https://radiofreefedi.net/#contribute

They always need more music/voice/etc…content! Ive found and followed quite a few artists from Radio Free Fedi.

I have about half as many comments. Its a better space to be in. It feels like im talking to real people here. At least not as jaded lol.

Neat!

Any examples of users?

You can fork lemmy and create the feature yourself if you want. I believe it uses postgres on the official docs so in theory should be “easy” (famous last words). Im not aware of any plugin or filtering like that.

The source code is open source so I believe someone can tell us if need be.

Either that or blocked the crawler on their Instance.

Ive been coming around too. Can someone give good reasons to switch or any other killer features?

Your probably right. And if an instance defederates with others, it may look like the number of users dropped without actually dropping.

Yeah thats another good one. Its almost like it would be useful to see what each tracker would do in the following scenarios:

1. Create a persona instance with a couple of accounts (like 3)

2. See what each site says

3. Create a post/ create comment/ upvote sample post.

4. Ban an account (How many active users are now being counted? How many comments? Did that comment/post go away retroactively?)

5. other such experiments…

6. Let everyone know the results.

Wish I had more time.

Again the interesting thing is that a lot of other sites have a huge difference in numbers. But they are all saying the same thing, “Active” users are declining or getting close to equilibrium but number of users are increasing. Strange.

I personally think that piefed/mastodon/other servers federating with lemmy might be messing up the numbers in some way. Both pumping up the numbers and making others “go down” in different sites and how they are pulling the data. Like if I respond via my mastodon account, is that a “new” account? Does that make it pop up as an active user? If I dont repost it via the mastodon account for a while, will I now be an inactive account, even though I still look at lemmy with it? Im not sure.

The interesting thing to note is each website I go to that looks at the total number of lemmy users is wildly different. Im wondering if there is some sort of blocker/defederated instance occurred a couple of months ago? Im not sure.

Either way, number of users are up.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Code behind the site: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime

https://tilvids.com/ has some nice videos.

Im a dev. But you do you. GL!

Excellent! Thanks. Ill take a look at it sometime. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

Last time I checked, there was still discussion on how people want this to work. Because its easy to say, but hard to get everyone to agree.

Community collections should be a thing. Something like /cc/Technology could pull in lemmy.world/ other instances and collections of communities. It makes it easier if one instance dies, an instance de-federates itself, or just wanting to consolidate all the different /c/Technology communities across instances.

It would also be nice if communities had the option to vote on their admins once in a while. Having individuals lord over different communities is a problem in reddit.