feddit.de disappeared a while back. As did the original UK one. (Both have been replaced)

I think somebody shoukd do an academic study on Lemmy, how it differs from Reddit, its weaknesses, and why it might be failing. So that there is a definitive cause to its weakness that can be pointed to for anyone willing to give it another shot.

Secondly, I think it might be a good idea for the admins of the servers to have a video call. This will make the (at least admin) community feel much more personal in a way that comment threads cannot and will lead to a stronger sense of community. Actually I’m impressed that Lemmy as a project has made it this far without the developers having ever been able to plan the project together in a group.

They’re probably busy spending it on surströmming

Picking a server is weird and scary.

As a scientist, I would be cautious of inferring the reason and beating ourselves up for it until we have crystal clear proof that that is the specific thing that’s turning people away.

Imo post/comment scores should be hidden too. I’ve turned them off in my app and it makes for much calmer browsing

We are living in the future

Just imagine what pessimist daily would have to say

What localities does this operate in so far?

You could try adding AP support to an OSS MMO like eg., The Mana World

I agree that most of Lemmy is rather cynical and very far lest

The only thing I hate about rust is how it does not respect my hard disk. It downloads all the dependencies and staticly links them into each project. Hrrrrrr

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I know this process acts as a filter in itself, clearing the randoms and normies.

This could be retained by having instances opt into/out of random allocation of new users.

Do you know if they’re an ActivityPub-BlueSky bridge in the works?

Interesting, I’m currently reading about Plurality (digital democracy), which decided to pick its own symbol (⿻) too.

I found myself telling myself, “Go on reddit today, don’t go on lemmy. You need a break from all the extreme constant politics”

This happened to me too. What I ended up doing was extensively muting communities that made any political posts in my feed and using a keyword filter (Sync supports this). My blocked words include Linux, Biden, Union, etc… Now my feed is mostly memes

Yeah, from the graphs above you can see that the number of monthly comments is growing, such is the main thing I suppose

Yeah open source seems to be a big thing in Germany specifically for some reason

Hmm this is a good idea. Getting every day users to use Linux didn’t work out, but focusing on desktop gamers seems to be catching on.

I swear I see those old 1280x1024 monitors everywhere. I have one just like that at home. Also came from my dad’s old job