spaduf

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[–] spaduf 3 points 8 months ago

Only because it's mostly broken. In a world where these features are fully functional, this is absolutely a killer feature. Lemmy has particularly bad support among the broader fediverse and that's certainly impacting how much of it you see.

[–] spaduf 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

!workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world

[–] spaduf 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.

[–] spaduf 20 points 9 months ago

Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active

[–] spaduf 68 points 9 months ago (7 children)

They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.

[–] spaduf 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought they fixed the a.gup.pe groups recently?

[–] spaduf 6 points 9 months ago

the more convinced I am that the AT protocol is better than ActivityPub.

That's because AT was very deliberately designed to solve problems with ActivityPub.

I wonder what sort of bridging can be implemented between AT Protocol and ActivityPub implementations.

The folks over at https://fed.brid.gy/ have been working at this. Much to the chagrin of the folks over at Mastodon.

[–] spaduf 2 points 9 months ago

Is this “article” seriously three paragraphs?

I believe that's just the paywall, but I also can't see it. Also, couldn't get around it with the usual methods.

[–] spaduf 9 points 9 months ago

"Fight club isn't about masculinity" is a pretty weird take. Especially based on the argument that only incels think about masculinity? I don't think I disagree with what you're saying overall, but I strongly disagree with both those ideas.

[–] spaduf 9 points 9 months ago

That is for the fediverse overall. Most of that comes from Mastodon. I personally have a little more faith in fedidb.org and their numbers. Also, worth noting the criteria for active users on Lemmy was recently changed to include votes, whereas before it only counted comments and posts.

[–] spaduf 3 points 9 months ago

mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history

Only if they squander their lead. So long as they innovate in ways befitting the fediverse form, they will probably maintain their position. That said, it seems to me like modular systems like bonfire will probably leapfrog the existing platforms pretty quickly.

[–] spaduf 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

 

I've been kicking around the idea for a while of moving to another instance for a while for two reasons:

  1. We're primarily on lemmy.ca because there was already a skeleton community here (around 80 subscribers pre-July migration)
  2. I believe that whose local feed we're on has a significant impact on the overall tenor and level of interaction here.

This post is definitely not intended to suggest we've had any issues with lemmy.ca, but it always seemed like an odd fit. So my question to y'all is this: If you could choose any instance to have an outsized effect on this community, which would it be?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by spaduf to c/opencourselectures
 

Institution: MIT
Lecturer: Prof. Norvin A. Richards
University Course Code: MIT 24.900
Subject: #linguistics
Description: This class provides some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we examine a number of ways in which human language is a complex but law-governed mental system. Much of the class is devoted to studying some core aspects of this system in detail; we also spend individual classes discussing a number of other issues, including how language is acquired, how languages change over time, language endangerment, and others.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by spaduf to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65

https://discuit.net/

For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that's been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?

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