If you have a free PCIE slot, you can just get a SATA controller card.

I see other’s talk about an m.2 -> SATA adapter, but I just don’t see the point if you have a free PCIE slot

I can absolutely see ot being useful for companies and other organisations

The nVidia GT series are cheap, the 710 series are the cheapest new cards that I have found.

On the very end of the graph you can see it sort of beginning to stabalize, there was even a small uptick in the second to last point, and sure, the last point shows a small decrease again.

My point is that it is too early to call out for danger regarding mastodon, that is too alarmist and may scare new users from the platform, speeding up the end of Mastodon.

So untill we have a period of time without surges it is hard to determine user growth

You are absolutely right that I am refering to the Gartner cycle.

It doesn’t fit exactly, but the general pattern fit very well with the first half.

The Mastodon graph just happens to have two hype sections.

The slopes you meassure are still tied to the preceeding surges, so I can’t treat them as any indication of success/failure.

To me it kinda looks like we are in the trough of disillusionment, which is a normal period of any new tech/system.

With improvements to the network we soon hit the slope of enlightenment.

I disagree with your and the author’s conclusions.

I have made my own long comment about it in thread, so here I am going to focus on your chart.

First, I will accept the data of the chart at face value, it seems resonably accurate and I don’t have any other data to work off of.

My point is that you are interpreting it wrong.

To me the declining slopes after the sruges are not relevant to any long term conclusions, they follow a highly predictable curve and doesn’t mean much.

If you look at the end of the graphs you can even see it growing slightly, that is obviously not evidence of anything yet, but to me it is an indication of either a start of another surge, or stability.

I believe you are too quick at spreading doom for Mastodon, give it half a year and look at the stats then, we won’t see a meteoric rise of active users any time soon, just accept it and work with more realistic expectations.

Mastodon is not struggling.

1. Mastodon is not a single entity, if mastodon.art dies tomorrow I would just create a new Mastodon profile on another instance.
2. Yeah, Mastodon use surged in 2022 and 2023, and yeah most users didn’t stay around, but compared to the numbers before 2022, Mastodon has s big bump of new users.

Looking at two surges of new users seeing the vast majority not stick around and missing that a sizable chunk still stayed is missing the point.

This article would never have been written if the user increase didn’t have temporary surges, that result would be the same number of users, but less brand recognition.

Mastodon is also not driven by the same kind of metrics as a centralized system, plenty of people can just run their own instance just for the fun of it, they don’t need constant growth.

So calm down, and take it slow.

Don’t sell Mastodon short.

Nah, I host it on a web hotel.

I am using a very generic ISP and they tend to have a dim view of running servers on their network.

I did have an RPi running SSH and a Mumble server directly connected to the internet years ago, but after a few years I realized that I was bringing needless attention to my network when I found my server on Shodan.

So I took it down…

I just hate the comic style that is used in presentations like this, it is just too cutsey, and I can’t take it seriously

Don’t talk about the high concept of federation, talk about the community that the different services offer.

The classic misstake is to oversell and miss the point that the other party is focusing on.

Don’t: “Lemmy is so awesome, it can’t be shut down, it is federated, you can even run your own instance and have total control”

What the other party hears: “Lemmy is awesome, and you have to do a lot of stuff to join.”

Do: “Hey, have you heard about Lemmy? It is a Reddit clone with a much calmer community, I have had a lot of interesting conversations over there”

This puts the focus on the community rather than the service, people join social networks for the interaction, not the tech.

Beamer?

You want to connect your BMW to Netflix?

An iPad and a roll of duct tape should do it…

I would recommend actually asking a question if you need help.

Do you really compare someone cancelling their pateron and a company taking all the money that customers have paid from the artists they want to support?

Sure, the payment would be skewed, but that is easily remidied by not having pop music on the plattform.

This is a bad idea, I would never work for someone who openly admits that they will only make arbitrary payments to me based on nothing but a whim.

Nah, payment needs to be consistent and based on the number of times an artist gets played.

My need for online photo galleries is just to direct friends and family to see them, I don’t store photos in the cloud.

I used to put up my photos on deviantart, I have had a gallery there for almost two decades, but lately dA has become very slow to navigate, so I built my own site, I didn’t need much, an index page linking to HTML galleries I export from digiKam.

After a few weeks of learning, designing and testing HTML and CSS, I have a nice index page that is responsive and easy to update and customize (in limited capacity).

This runs on a normal webhost, and is lightning quick to navigate, the galleries support browsing with the arrow keys, and just works.

There are three annoying things about it though…

1. To update a gallery, I need to recreate it in digiKam and upload it manually to the host.

2. I can’t include notes with the photos.

3. I have to edit a link in every gallery to make it be able to go back to the index page and not 404…

He thought he was funny, he repeated what the above poster said to repeat.