I don’t agree that these are an eyesore, they are not as pretty as a tree, no, but disgustingly ugly? Nah.

Seems like a decent idea if you have an over developed location where you can’t plant a tree.

This is the first time I am hearing about that site, I have just not been in the scene much… could it be a temporary problem?

Sounds fantastic, I hope that you can find a community like that again.

Vetting the post history is probably the only realistic way of doing it, it is time consuming, I am sad that it is needed, but if that is what it it takes it is at least doable.

I wish you and all women online good luck in finding a community like that, everyone needs a good community to enjoy!

There is no resonable way to do that.

The only way I could see it being done while perserving some kind of anonymity would be to have a defederated instance, where members are invite-only, where members can invite their friends to join, there by verifying that there are no men joining.

Unfortunately, there is no good way of verifying the gender of a person that you don’t meet outside of a forum.

Since you have the equipment at home you can just get a power meter and measure the computer and a router to see which uses most power over two hours.

Make sure to install the baseline for the computer before the test so it is fairly representative

I get that, it was just something I noticed when looking to build a NAS a few months ago, I was considering the power usage over time when compared with a Synology, and I seem to recall the Synology being much more power efficient, and when I saw OP talking about using a full X86 machine for an AP, I just thought it sounded very inefficient.

Before you start with this project, consider the power use of a full X86 system even at idle and compare that to a standard router.

If you are looking to run this as an access point permanently, the cost of power may add up.

I am not saying that you shouldn’t do it, but take it into account before deciding.

I didn’t realize that, and YT didn’t tell me.

Excellent! That would have been good information to add to the initial post

As a non developer, what advantages does this provide over Matrix?

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Yesterday I revived my old Pixelfed account, and I have set myself a challenge, upload one photo every day for a month.

I have plenty of photos from the last decade to pick from

I don’t know if this will mean that my account will be active in the long run, but I’ll give it an honest try.

I posted this earlier in the thread:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

@stoy@pxlmo.com

That might have been me:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

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.