Hal

There’s a blurb here: https://lemmy.nz/post/42147205/23767495

But basically the Dutch host turned out to actually be Russian owned and got shut down. He’s just waiting to see if it can be recovered as the backups aren’t very recent.

I was gonna say you had it in the wrong place, but it looks like you also serve it in the /.well-known/ location as well.

I could not even get Minecraft Dungeons 1 to work on Linux. I didn’t try very hard, but it had some weird issue where the mouse kept jumping back to the bottom corner that made it unplayable.

I’ve only just started playing it for the first time after years of it sitting in my steam account. It’s been fun so far!

Damn, they lock down your Outlook settings? I don’t think I’ve ever worked anywhere that did that.

I prefer that thing where someone sends you an invite for a month from now, and sends you a separate email with the important documents in it. At least the stuff in the calendar invite can be found from the calendar, that email you sent a month ago is not tied to the meeting in any way.

It’s not the only option, I have it disabled so they stay in my inbox once accepted/declined.

I think people took your comment wrong. If I’m reading correctly, you’re saying maybe she is the incompetent one, which I think is a fair comment to make, even though there’s no evidence. It’s definitely possible?

Not OP but I use an Enterprise version that is fine, I guess a different release branch. My mother doesn’t have the enterprise version as she works for a small business and it broke.

Looking at last year’s survey, the number of self-hosted devices has 2-3 first. And Raspberry Pi is most popular.

I wonder about this, because I have Pi for Pi hole, and one for Home Assistant, each dedicated. Then almost everything I self host is on a different server. But this still represents Raspberry Pi twice as much as the main server. I think Pis may be most popular because there’s many single-purposes uses for them.

Piefed and Lemmy can both import your settings (including subscriptions) from another account.

Piefed can important Lemmy subscriptions/settings as well, but Lemmy can only do Lemmy I think.

You can’t bring your posts/comments but you don’t have to start from scratch.

Edit: typo

There used to be one like that a few years back! From memory I think it was on the German feddit that doesn’t exist anymore.

How about pointing them at Piefed instead?

You could point them to the instance chooser. It’s on every piefed instance but is decentralized so may be different on different instances, here’s piefed.social: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

Piefed has all the same content but a different feature set and worse app support, but app support is growing.

How do we know Dr Pepper is a person doctor not a vet?

Or maybe Dr Pepper has a PhD?

You make a lot of good points, and I think I agree with your overarching theme - we don’t really know.

Piefed does a lot better job of not recommending the weird instances, and I do hope it overtakes Lemmy because ultimately Lemmy is built by a fringe group so they aren’t going to stop recommending fringe groups.

I think that people are unlikely to keep using both Lemmy and Piefed long term. Piefed is new and exciting, in another year we should see people settling into an account and hopefully we’ll have a better idea at whether the threadiverse is growing or shrinking.

For one thing, Lemmy used to have 65K at its peak, so yes we definitely have dropped since then.

I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. That wasn’t natural growth turning into natural decline, that was a giant influx of users that, even at the time, people were expecting only 10-20% of those would stay. It’s kind of impressive we are still at half the peak.

Like lemm.ee used to be one of the largest instances - so where did that traffic “go”? Moreover, is it still being counted now, e.g. as part of the 65K total, or with the entire instance having shut down, are its counts now removed from both the numerator and denominator?

I specifically use MAU as the measurement so that we don’t have to worry about that. When an instance shuts down like that, you will see the total users drop a lot. But with MAU, after a month you’re back with reasonably accurate figures, because users cannot be active on a shut down instance.

Total accounts is pretty useless. Early on after the big reddit influx, most instance had open registrations. You could see the millions upon millions of new accounts being added, but most of those turned out to be spam.

e.g. I know that I personally make up at least 2 of those MAUs

Many people have multiple accounts, but if there is nothing causing people to create more accounts, if the proportion of people with multiple accounts stays the same, then that shouldn’t affect the assessment of whether or not the platform is growing.

For example, read the comments

Whether on not we are only retaining 10% of users doesn’t really affect whether we are growing. If more people are joining than leaving, then we still grow. I remember being on Digg all those years ago, and I didn’t really “get” reddit until I was forced to. What does it mean when reddit users come and see all these posts about beans? It’s an inside joke that would make new users not feel like they belong, but also “getting” it is something that helps retain people.

not only do they not FEEL welcomed here, but… in truth… they AREN’T ⁉️

Like one of those comments says, Lemmy probably will never be reddit. It’s nature is that there are fringe groups that would shock people. When I go to Fediverse.observer, it recommends I join Hilarious Chaos because it’s hosted near to me, but that would be a huge turnoff for most people.

On the other hand, the flagship instance of Piefed is more centralist, more aggressive with removing detracting users, and piefed in general has better onboarding and more tools with finding and dealing with problematic users. But it also makes it more reddit like, more censorship friendly. I think this means Piefed is likely to grow into a more reddit friendly platform. Currently Lemmy’s new users seem to be a lot of people banned from reddit (rightly or wrongly), and I think we need the people not banned from reddit if we want a more welcoming experience.

But I also think we should feel comfortable being our own thing and not trying to grow into a huge reddit monstrosity. Many people like that they don’t spend as long on Lemmy as they did on reddit, due to the lack of addictive algorithms and I’ll argue, the lack of content to keep you busy 24/7.

I’ve said this before, I am happy with what appears to be slow natural growth. I don’t think we need or should target massive growth. Our shareholders aren’t all that interested in growth.

Are the numbers actually shrinking for Lemmy+Piefed?

Lemmy has gone from 36,600 monthly active users to 33,600 users in the last year. A loss of 3,000 monthly active users.

Piefed has gone from 1,600 MAU a year ago to 6,900 MAU now, an increase of 5,300 users.

This means the total has increased by 2,300 MAU in the past year.

Note that this drop in Lemmy and rise in Piefed can be explained by lemmynsfw shutting down and being replaced by fedinsfw, which runs piefed and has 3,600 MAU. Arguably both Lemmy and Piefed are slowly gaining in MAU.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen subtitles synced correctly outside of streaming services. You must have a different setup to me.

Firefox won’t load local IPs and I have no idea why 🙁

A few phones back I started getting a second hand flagdhip phone every 3-4 years, I think it’s well worth the flagship second hand 1 year old model instead of the mid range phones I used to get for the same price.

Plus the last couple have been pixels for GraphineOS, so it’s nice to not be directly handingb Google money.