I think it’s fine. Want to explain why you think that it’s an issue?

Sorry, places an upper bound, not lower bound. The actual distance would be something like the area covered by overlapping latency circles of the minimum response time for each.

Oh, that’s a thought. I didn’t think of checking robots.txt.

Lemmy.today does have a blanket ban on all bots, which I assume was put into place to help try to reduce scraping load. I’m not sure that the admin, @mrmanager@lemmy.today, realized that it might have cut it out of Lemmy statistics gathering.

Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked

https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.world&stats=1

Fedidb doesn’t seem to include lemmy.world, which seems like a substantial omission, as I believe that it’s the largest Lemmy instance.

EDIT: And my own home instance, lemmy.today, also doesn’t seem to be on there:

https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.today

The largest user count server that they seem to query is lemmy.ml:

https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.ml

EDIT2: Your home instance, kbin.earth, does seem to be on there:

https://fedidb.com/servers/kbin.earth

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I mean, you can stick a USB hub on a port and have multiple devices connected to it…

Damn. I definitely made good use of that website.

I don’t think that it’s a problem to have news-only communities. It’s easy enough to create communities that do do original content, and if people want that, then they can subscribe to it.

Sure. There’s also !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but that’s more-generalized to discussion over whether-or-not something is mod or admin abuse of power, and doesn’t deal specifically with those instances.

Yeah. If you’re not familiar with !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, they have people submitting posts pretty similar to yours for lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml there.

I don’t presently, but back when I was working on a large codebase and needing to know when a painfully long compile finished, I used an XMPP client and server.

I wouldn’t push either button in 2026 or 2027 if you can wait.

lemmyverse.net is the closest thing I’ve seen to this, and my experience has been that it has problems with timeouts when used over a slow connection, so I think that this will be useful to many.

EDIT: Note that it does have some useful features that might be useful to replicate, like:

• Showing post and comment count (not sure if this is applicable to all instance types)

• A tri-state setting for NSFW content, so that someone could search only for NSFW content rather than only not for NSFW content.

• Currently, lemmyverse.net does some processing of the Markdown text in the description to plain text to make it more readable. For example, for !technology@lemmy.world, this is lemmyverse.net’s description:

  This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles. Our Rules Follow the lemmy.world rules. Only tech related news or articles. Be excellent to each other! Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day. Threads asking for personal tech support may be

  And on the Threadiverse Catalog:

  This is a [most excellent](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExN3N0NmhuODNib3d3Nzg0OHU2bTFqMXAzNW42Y2JsOTVmenNsNG8ycSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l46CDHTqbmnGZyxKo/giphy.gif) place for…

  I’m not sure whether Catodon uses Markdown in its community descriptions or not.

I’m not familiar with Catodon, so I don’t know if these would also be valuable for Catodon or not; might not be worth your effort if not.

If you’re a developer for an important open source project, they might.

Attacking the xz project wasn’t done because the attacker cared about anything that the xz maintainer had. It was because he was trusted and the software he maintained had been given a fair bit of trust by certain maintainers and could be compromised and used as a vector into other systems that indirectly relied on that open-source project.

Thanks!

I don’t generally like the Twitter model and rarely use it, but I will say that one thing that it does do well, better than the Reddit/Threadiverse model, is very rapidly assembling information about a specific, temporary topic.

Like, the Reddit model is about letting a community assemble over time and letting people find their way there and moderators be chosen and all that. That works quite well for a lot of things, and lets people with expertise in the field arise and all that.

But let’s say that there’s a huge natural disaster and people are putting up video clips from their cell phones and stuff like that. They can coalesce around a hashtag or a couple of hashtags pretty quickly. Relevant material from people who have had no contact with each other and maybe no time to assemble a community or anything gets drawn together. Other users retweeting content help highlight it. The topic probably won’t be active for long. It can be really useful for a rapid setup and teardown scenario.

Of course, that’s really mostly following a hashtag, rather than a particular user…

I also dislike the “short comment” model that Twitter uses (though over the years, the comment length has been increased and workarounds added), but one thing that it does help with is to help deal with inexperienced users unfamiliar with quoting etiquette. In email or in traditional forum systems, it’s conventional to quote a bit of relevant text before responding to it. This requires knowing syntax for doing so and when it’s appropriate. Twitter deals with that by forcing everything to be broken up into bite-size chunks as a property of the system, so someone responding to something is forced to respond to only the relevant bit. I think that that probably helps make Twitter more-approachable.

Your browser likely has a “reader view”. In Firefox, by default, this can be toggled via clicking the little page icon in the URL bar. Remote styles won’t be applied in that.

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I don’t use Mastodon, but I don’t know if it’s possible to do this particular combination:

without owning a domain

users on the local server should still be able to follow accounts on other Mastodon servers

Like, a client that supports having accounts on multiple Mastodon servers would work. Then they have a local account, and they have an unrelated account elsewhere on another Mastodon server and follow people using that, so that the “following” has nothing to do with your local server.

But if you want federated behavior, where a user connects to your server and has their account there tell the local Mastodon server to pull down posts from another users somewhere out on another Mastodon server, you might need to have a certificate on your server that other servers recognize as valid, which in practice would mean one signed by a public CA.

I don’t know for certain whether this is actually necessary, but I could believe that it is.

In terms of users, it’ll be Mastodon, the Twitter-alike.

goes looking for numbers

This doesn’t indicate whether “active users” is monthly active users (MAU), which is probably the most-common metric for social media, but based on this:

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

There are presently about 750k “active users” on Mastodon.

EDIT: Oh, fediverse.observer does have statistics, and says that theirs are MAU.

According to that, they’re at 912k MAU, so maybe that active user count above is something like weekly active.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

Here on the Threadiverse:

Lemmy has about 50k MAU.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Piefed about 6k MAU:

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

And Mbin about 900 MAU:

https://mbin.fediverse.observer/stats