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A barchart might be better as the comparison of instances with the most subscribed accounts doesn’t mean much I feel

we have some users that register but are inactive and/or are infrequently active which could be a sign of lurkers or bots but empty accounts don’t mean much when it comes to the health of an instance.

However; if we look at each community’s active monthly and daily users it can tell another story and that data compared against Reddit’s could be useful for anyone seeking alternatives

I’m rambling with little sleep but hopefully what I’ve said make a little bit of sense

Tankies are trying to cover up the NATO art and are also destroying the peace art on canvas

I would say mostly general, and it also depends on context and relevance

• like I’d send FFXIV memes to my friends who play it but not to anyone else.

For things that people aren’t familiar with but is useful to know (like PC hardware) I tend to share fedi-links as sources/citations after providing context

EX:

1. [Powercolor Hellhound RX 7900 XT], [Partner Model 4070 Ti] - Value Comparison
2. [ZOTAC 4080 Super], [PowerColor’s Hellhound 7900 XT] - Value Comparison

I’m a nerd

I just share posts/comments that others find useful

hmm

I’d say that I’m cautiously optimistic about this,

• I just need more information about IFTAS Connect like:

1. Why would I use this over Lemmy/Sublinks/BreezeWiki
2. Where’s the source code and what’s the license?

IFTAS News - May 29, 2024

“Comments are closed.”

Also seeing things like ^this is what gives me hesitation in being able to trust them

• remember locked posts on Reddit and StackOverflow? yeah me too :/

I like the idea behind the project,

• but I just need more reasons as to why I can trust using this over what’s currently available

Edit

As of June 7, 2024
Lemmy has implemented Local Only Communities

• As this is already open source under the AGPL-3.0 License there is even less reason to blindly choose to go with IFTAS Connect unless more information is provided otherwise

is this open source?

I wasn’t able to find anything that indicated it as such, maybe I missed it somewhere?

if it isn’t then I don’t really see the point of this when the admins and mods already have an existing Matrix chat && we could probably just share info via our own c/Meta communities (or we could make another c dedicated for the same purpose)

same here🤗

Congrats!

Happy cake day!🥳✨

as one of the instance mod/admin’s I’d say that evidence would help expedite the report process but it’s totally optional

depending on what the thing being reported is sometimes evidence isn’t needed

• for anything that’s blatantly negative/unpleasant, evidence isn’t typically needed when reporting a post/comment

• for anything else that someone might find subtly “off”, 2 pieces of evidence could help us figure out what’s wrong

  • as a systems analyst having as much information to determine what happened and how things got to this way can help others and myself determine what the best way forward could be
  • for example some users might just need a warning/clarification based on my own interactions

By chance the fediverse might’ve developed a resilient antibody and regeneration system:

due to allowing federated communities with transparent moderation logging it means that users are free to choose from a plethora of instances to set up camp and create

back on reddit it wasn’t possible as there was only one without connections so it acted like a walled garden but now with the spread of Activitypub, it might be difficult for a singular company to have full control unless they’re able to offer better services than what’s currently available

just a guess but I’d reckon that at minimum 51% of users that care about privacy and security would choose a FOSS instance rather than a closed-source proprietary one

and as time passes I’d imagine that capitalistic instances would decay over time due to insufficient funding and/or user retention as their primary goal would be to squeeze their users which isn’t a sustainable model

amusingly much like here and elsewhere on the fediverse, reminding people they have to engage/talk to others to get any engagement.

eww, do people really do that here on lemmy?

• I really hope not as engagement should be natural and not forced onto people🌻

There’s a couple things I’ve noticed while using Lemmy and Mastodon:

Admins and moderators have a sort of distributed power as it’s somewhat no longer consolidated to a single instance like Reddit anymore,

• and so there’s more incentive to making good decisions for not only for oneself but for the collective (reason being long-term instance sustainability)
  • therefore this system is likely to incentivize admins and moderators to make better long-term decisions rather than chasing short-term goals.
  • anytime I see systems that encourages people to make better long term decisions that makes me happy :D

additionally the fediverse gives more leeway to user choice as you’re no longer locked down to an instance

• (this of course changes based on the instance federation/defederation situation which stems from the instance admin’s/admins’ past and current actions.)
• this allows users to participate on multiple communities using one account instead of having to create multiple accs

the emergent complexity of the systems that builds the fediverse seems like it’s currently on a good path for building sustainable homely communities, so I’m cautiously optimistic

so far there’s areas I can see that could use some QOL improvement for online discussions boards/forums and Lemmy’s current systems seems like a good point to branch out from