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ada, 11 months ago to fediverse

Lemmy growth is crazy!

Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.

lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.

And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part

I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...

#fediverse #lemmy #kbin #threadiverse #calckey

@lemmy @fediverse

ada, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Is there such a thing as a shared fediverse account that has a different person behind the account each week, that shows us photos and slice of life stuff in different parts of the world?

My home city has an account that gets a different driver from week to week, showing different slices of life in my city, but it occurs me to that it would work well at a global scale too!

Does such an account already exist?

Edit - Thank you to those suggesting groups, but I'm looking for something more curated than that. Not a group of people posting random photos from all over the world, but rather, one person at a time, showing their part of the world from their perspective.

ada, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to australia

A question for those of you familiar with countries that use stand alone bidets. In Buenos Aires, as far as I can determine from my limited experience, bidets almost seem to be required by law to be powerful enough to strip the paint off of walls. The jet of water could literally touch the roof if you didn't stick your posterior in the way!

Are all stand alone bidets like that?

#bidet #bidets #toilets #Australia #Argentina #BuenosAires

ada, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Well, that didn't take long. Though threads.net is not yet federating with the wider fediverse, they are currently home to several hate groups such as Libs of Tik Tok and their ilk. We will not federate with any instance that knowingly chooses to house hate speech, so a full defederation of threads.net has been made by blahaj.zone

#fediblock

ada, 11 months ago to fediverse

For those who are unaware, lemmy and kbin to a lesser extent are in the early stages of a rapid growth in users, similar to the one Mastodon experienced in November last year.

In a move similar to Twitter, Reddit has all but confirmed that 3rd party apps will be locked out with their new API pricing, effectively forcing people to use the official app or nothing.

That has driven a lot of people to look for alternatives. I expect the wave in new users will ebb, but it will surge back again even larger once the 3rd party reddit apps are officially unusable.

We live in interesting times on the fediverse

#lemmy #kbin #reddit #fediverse #EternalNovember

ada, 11 months ago to fediverse

So, I guess I'm done with reddit...

A pity. I met a lot of amazing people via reddit (including @supakaity), and many of those communities have been important to me over the 10 years I've had an account there...

But between deliberately killing off 3rd party apps and their lackluster approach to hate speech, it's time to go.

The fediverse has taught me I don't need to endure hate speech find my communities and my people, so, I'm done.

#fediverse #reddit

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/christianselig/statuses/110464420566906146

ada, 6 months ago to photography

Camera shutter modes question. You can skip this if you don't know or care about the technology behind cameras :)

I'm trying to understand why rolling shutter is a problem with electronic shutters, but not with electronic first curtain shutter modes. I've done lots of digging trying to get to the underlying reason for the difference, but I haven't had any luck, just various people talking about the fact it is a problem.

So fediverse photogs, who can help me with an answer?

#photography

ada, 11 months ago to kbinMeta

I've had a few days playing around with kbin now, and I really can't say enough good things about it!

It's still very early beta, but it aggregates groups from friendica, gup.pe and chirp and handles them in a smart interface. It also has dedicated reddit like groups (called magazines) that are cross compatible with lemmy. And best of all, you can set up Calckey like antenna for each magazine. This means that not only can you see content explicitly posted to the magazine, but there is a separate tab for content automatically aggregated from the wider fediverse

I've already created a bunch of magazines simply because there aren't many there yet, but I look forward to handing them over to other people once the userbase grows

@ernest, what an amazing platform you're developing!

@kbinmeta

#kbin #fediverse

ada, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

My take on firehaj!

What do you think? Have we found our new logo?

(Please, no one take this seriously)

#logo #hajkey #firehaj #firefish

Edit - And credit of course goes to the Firefish project for the original logo that inspired this bit of fun :)

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9hffnz5spr

ada, 1 month ago to coffee

Coffee fedi, help me out.

I'm getting more and more milk/lactose intolerant as I get older, but lactose free milk is too sweet for me.

I don't sweeten my coffee, and even lactose free milk with no sweetener else makes my coffee too sweet.

So, what do I replace my milk with when I order coffee?

#coffeefedi #coffeesnob #coffee

ada, 2 months ago to tumblr

Welcome to our new members coming over from Tumblr!

#tumblrmigration #tumblr

ada, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to trans

The finished product!

#trans #tattoo

ada, 9 months ago to reddit

I guess we better get ready for the next surge in lemmy user signups...

https://www.reddit.com/community-points/documentation/introduction

#reddit #blockchain #lemmy #threadiverse

ada, 1 year ago to random

Ok trans fediverse! I need your help!

I'm a straight trans woman, and my timeline is largely sapphic! It's time to even the balance a bit!

So if you've got any queer/trans content that my straight but queer ass might enjoy, please spam me with it! Memes, people/hashtags to follow, stories, I don't care what it is, I'll take it all :)

#trans #sexuality #queer #transhet

ada, 2 months ago to random

It's a bad sign when everything tastes wrong isn't it?

ada, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to brisbane

This morning, a scrub turkey broke in to my house, knocked shit everywhere in my kitchen, destroyed the guaze in the bathroom window and shat everywhere in my hall, including up the side of the walls.

It's a good thing I love birds, because that bird tested me...

#scrubturkey #bushturkey #brisbane #meanjin #Australia

ada, 1 month ago to random

What's not to love about the sound of horny possums growling at each other in the tree right outside your window?

ada, 11 months ago to fediverse

If you're a fediverse dev or a fedivangelist, please read this! This is our chance to really get in to the nitty gritty of search opt in permissions at the AP level!

#fediverse #ActivityPub #calckey #hajkey #search

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9ev0kge0aj

ada, 10 months ago to random

So, it turns out I have quite a few folk called Ada in my timeline. It's almost as if I instantly follow anyone with that name.

So, if you are an Ada, and for some reason I'm not following you yet, please let me know so I can fix that :)

#ada #names

ada, 10 months ago to random

I have the plague today. Not the plague, but a plague. Either way, I don't recommend it :\

ada, 2 months ago to random

@supakaity and I encountered this fine fellow this evening.

ada, 11 months ago to random

It's the first day of winter which means I'm now allowed to complain about how much I hate winter.

So...

I hate winter! 🥶 ​:Blobhaj_Blanket_Blue:​

I'm glad I got that out of my system!

ada, 11 months ago to fediverse

I just had a bit of a look at kbin.social and I have to say, kbin looks really impressive!

If you've never heard of kbin, it's a fediverse platform specifically focusing on groups. Broadly speaking, similar to lemmy, the goal is to create a fediverse take on the reddit experience. However, kbin also integrates fediverse groups like gup.pe, chirp and friendica groups, and that is a killer feature as far as I'm concerned!

We've been running a lemmy instance for a few months now, but it might be time to look at spinning up our own kbin instance too!

#lemmy #kbin #fediverse #FediverseGroups #friendica #ChirpSocial #fedivangelism

ada, 10 months ago to YerbaMate

Yesterday was a good day. Thanks to some amazing local market stall holders who hail from Buenos Aires, I was able to try (yerba) mate, and I get why Argentinians and Uruguayans enjoy it so much!

I followed it up with an afternoon of board games with @supakaity and folks at my local gaming store, and discovered jalapeno lemonade while I was playing! Until this point, it wasn't something I knew I needed in my life, but wow, it was amazing too!

#YerbaMate #jalapeno #lemonade #RioDeLaPlata #argentina #uruguay

ada, 1 month ago to running

Another bra free run today! 5.5km today!

Now I just wish I could work out whether it's actually good for breasts or bad for them. The internet appears divided on the topic! I hate sports bras, and would love to keep avoiding them if it's not going to wreck my body

#running