@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB Fediverse User Growth graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% other, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ? https://fedidb.org/
Subnautica; at the beginning your pod drops into the surface of the ocean, then you open the hatch and you climb out… to see an infinite expanse of blue sea under a blue sky.
That triggered so many memories for me, I had to take a minute. The color grading on that scene was on point.
One of the Quake games has a section where you get captured, then put on a conveyor belt where you see other people in front of you get mutilated, then that happens to you. That scene almost triggered a dissociative episode.
The original ending of Mass Effect 3 brought me to tears because the Clint Mansell music meshed so well with the on-screen segments, it really moved me. That said I also like the remastered ending; the latter is like the last few chapters of Lord Of The Rings, the former is like an American movie ending.
To your last point: money being created != Wealth/value creation; it’s more like wealth redistribution (if you create a thousand bucks out of thin air, in an economy of a trillion it’s small potatoes - but it does add up fast and affects everyone).
There absolutely is value in banking, but it’s not nearly enough as much as advertised.
The Democrat "directed his staff to deliver a gift to the House Oversight Committee to congratulate and salute Rep. Comer and his Team America™ squad as they embark on their historic impeachment journey."
I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?...
In part you can see this already - there are a bunch of servers that most lemmy instances have defederated from. In these cases information flow is one way - f.e. lemmmy.world doesn’t get any updates from foo.baz, doesn’t provide search results, communities, etc.
Subscription would make sense when the added value you provide is 1) availability guarantees, 2) performance guarantees, 3) membership guarantees, 4) moderation / content filtering options
Capitalism is relatively good, gives performance & frugality incentives. Unrestrained late-stage capitalism… not so much. Think of it like oxygen. At 21% you’re great (and need it to live), at 90%+ you spontaneously combust.
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
Reddit OTOH was a good place to discover other things organically (not the enshittification attempt "other people liked that sub" interjections). But the only thing I miss is a way to group my subscriptions.
Currently Lemmy is getting up to speed, and the discussion quality has already started to drop; we'll see whether communities can police themselves.
ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....
You probably haven't been in a space where you haven't felt unsafe.
I like the wild and free frontier internet, and Lemmy was feeling like that.
I would disagree somewhat. Lemmy right now has the same feeling as Reddit during the Digg exodus, but the unwashed masses have already started the Eternal September.
Do you need power? Just eat this! (www.imagenetz.de)
Intel Core Ultra performance in Linux is 15% higher than in Windows (gadgettendency.com)
Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ (fortune.com)
Tech company has no data.
What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?
Is there a word for "kerning" but with spoken speech?
Like when you emphasize the wrong syllable, or the flow of the sentence was spoken really chunky....
What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
The moment that inspired this question:...
Don't forget to tip (lemmy.world)
'Top Tier Trolling': Fetterman Gifts House GOP Case of Bud Light Over Biden Impeachment Hearing (www.commondreams.org)
The Democrat "directed his staff to deliver a gift to the House Oversight Committee to congratulate and salute Rep. Comer and his Team America™ squad as they embark on their historic impeachment journey."
What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left (lemm.ee)
So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?...
Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
So r/Apple just opened back up. This didn't age well... (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/180455...
YSK not to post everything to the !lemmy.world community
Why YSK: to help keep the platform in order and help make the admins and mods' work easier....
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company. (www.npr.org)
"It's time we grow up," says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.
How the beehaw defederation affects us
ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....
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