Our latest update for Q3 2023 — now renamed the “X/Twitter Migration Report” — finds that Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to “X,” as well as the ongoing struggles and controversies surrounding the platform, have had negative consequences for X/Twitter, which continues to experience a steady decline in usage and advertising revenue. We also found that Threads, after its initial burst of growth and subsequent decline, has emerged as a steady competitor to the X/Twitter platform. And the trends we’ve been identifying — particularly the continued emergence of open social protocols — are ongoing.
After Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in November 2022, some high-profile Twitter users — as well as many low-profile ones — publicly announced that they were leaving the platform. The exodus has ebbed and flowed due to X’s new policies, user fees, mass layoffs of Trust and Safety teams, continuing technical issues, and Musk’s own behavior.
In December 2022, we produced our first Twitter Migration report, using the data available to us to estimate the size and scope of the phenomenon of users leaving Twitter for other platforms. We’re proud to present our latest quarterly report.
As we saw in past reports there continues to be a steady decline in the number of Twitter users as more and more users “quiet quit” Twitter for other platforms. Our Q2 2023 report found three additional migration patterns: a user migration and developer migration to other platforms, and a technology migration to open protocols undergirding them.
Fediverse
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
Getting started on Fediverse;
- What is the fediverse?
- Fediverse Platforms
- How to run your own community
I've wanted a badge that shows the instance uptime and couldn't find any, so I created one. It's available at https://uptime.lemmings.world/{your-domain}.svg and gets its data from fediverse.observer.
Examples:
- Lemmings.world:
- https://uptime.lemmings.world/lemmings.world.svg - Lemmy.world:
- https://uptime.lemmings.world/lemmy.world.svg - Lemmy.ml:
- https://uptime.lemmings.world/lemmy.ml.svg - discuss.tchncs.de:
- https://uptime.lemmings.world/discuss.tchncs.de.svg (congrats on that uptime, by the way!) - and so on
The documentation is available at https://uptime.lemmings.world. Feel free to use it for your instance if you wish to.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6237131
Fedipunk means a story in a universe, in which the era of dezentralized social networks is already there, with all its potential consequences - or we see the transition to it.
From what I read in earlier posts and my own thinking I propose the following ones (new suggestions are of course welcome):
- Planet Magnon by Leif Randt (socialism, distributed social network, decentral communities)
- Mars Trilogy Book 2 by Kim Stanley Robinson (collaborative government strategies)
- Half-Built Garden by (socialism, distributed social network, decentral communities)
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (decentral factions, openings between different parallel universes which begin to merge, remote communication over magic substance)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400367
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400327
In case anyone is wondering, it's rqd2.
The definition of paraphilia is "a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.", which can inclde pedophilia.
It has recieved 4 censures from fediseer due to the content contained on that instance
Not a good look for Lemmy to be promoting any instance like that.
Update: A pull request was sent to remove the sus instance. It should no longer show up soon
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5376797
The fediseer now allows instance admins to self-tag their instance as they want. Those tags can then be consumed via the API.
For example, one could use these tags to discover all instances focusing one or more topics at the same time. Places like pangora.social can use them to find more instances to suggest in their lists.
On the flip side, instance admins can also use them to help improve their blocklists in a "positive" manner. For example, let's say that you want your instance to be SFW, you could explicitly block any instance self reporting as "porn" or "gore" etc. Along with the endorsements and hesitations, this would provide a lot of tools to ensure you associate only with the people you fit well.
You can add or delete tags in the GUI or directly via the API as an instance admin
The new
tags_csvarg on the/whitelistendpoint, will also return all instances which match any of the tags in your csv.Let us know what you think and remember you can support the fediseer development on liberapay. Alternatively you can also sponsor the individual developers on github: db0 | rikudou
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy's user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
Today I learnt that at beehaw.org you don't really have to break any instance/community rules to have your comments removed by the admin. In their wiki page they wrote over the top, corporate-sounding articles about how "Beehaw aspires to be a diverse place" where "everyone plays an important role in that mission", how they are against Reddit-style power mods and in favour of fair moderation, but the reality seems to be quite the opposite.
I'm really glad Lemmy is not Reddit and there's always plenty of alternatives, which makes me appreciate Lemmy even more. No more yellow icons on my communities subscription list. 🏸🐝
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5590227
I'm not yet fully sure what pirate crews are but they are somehow heavily build on open-source software and they protect minorities and distribute wealth but put more focus on free speech and self sufficiency. Jesus Houses also distribute wealth (but not as much) and protect minorities way less (we are speaking about progressive christians here). Work spaces can protect minorities but not as much and they can also distribute wealth but also not as much.
