Solution: don’t look at news communities. Only subscribe to communities without news, politics, or tech…
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A significant chunk of people on here seem extremely depressed.
Wait… are we just gonna let this pass? Not sure how to feel about this…
Oh yeah good point! That ancient Mesopotamian nerd will also be like: “And they’ll make up stories about talking ponies… and they’ll dress up like furry animals and have meetings together!” Oh, Mesopotamian nerd, you were born way too soon…
The nerd can also create a startup, and get a friend to be the business person. Usually this involves selling the startup to a large company at some point.
If the nerd is an academic, the university can “help” the academic to market the invention; the academic will get a tiny amount and the university gets the rest. Or the academic can create a startup on the side, and set up their favorite graduate as the business person.
I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…
Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!
MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR (NOT EXCLUSIVELY POLITICAL)
a * means “currently infrequently posted to”
the more popular places on the Fediverse seem to be stagnating right now
Dunno, from Fediverse Observer, it looks like lemmy and mastodon are growing slowly over the last couple weeks. (the mastodon stats look a little weird tho – there’s a plummet on Jan 30th that looks like a data collection artifact.)
Excellent point, do you happen to know where I can find longer-term usage data?
I dunno… it’s like the difference between a chain restaurant and your favorite local cafe/pub/diner. The chain restaurant has its benefits, but you have the best interactions with your buddies at your local cafe/pub/diner.
Fam we should totally post to !superbowl@lemmy.world during the game! I’m sure I can look up some owl art or something…
o yeah thanks!
user retention
yeah, hard to tell… Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now… if pixelfed peaks at 300k it’s reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).
ofc every situation is different… e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count…
Yeah, what I like about those stories is that they’re open-ended enough that you can interpret them in various ways. What you’re saying is definitely a valid interpretation.
you can use kbin.earth (and presumably mbin?) to see the upvotes, even if you don’t have an account there. e.g.:
https://kbin.earth/m/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world/t/907175/Mod-of-a-similar-comm-deleted-my-advertising-post-now/favourites
(edit: you may need to copy-paste the link; the web interface has problems with it. downvotes are not publicly viewable there.)
It’s a great description. Fire creates H2O in gaseous form? I may have known that, but it makes sense in their explanation.
There’s a parable about this Taoist Master who’s seen standing by a mountain view.
They ask the Master: are you meditating? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.
They ask the Master: are you contemplating nature? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.
They ask the Master: are you waiting for something? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.
Sometimes it’s okay to just stand there.
slangin that cluck-rock…
Fuck them. If they’re such children that they’re willing to watch the world burn because the side that is looking to help them is smug, they can gargle these nuts and go fuck themselves. I’m done coddling these idiots.
A comic about THAT would be a lot better!
Nah, I get it. Imagine some big clumsy creature who spoke like a screaming baby forced you to keep only one meal’s worth of food in your fridge.
The big events of my Sunday were !superbowl@lemmy.world and Monsterdon. I consider this an absolute win. My cousin was telling me something about some halftime show but I was like huh?
Mixed feelings about Eurovision entries. I like seeing them without expectations. I had no warning that Kaarija’s Cha Cha Cha or Go_A’s SHUM were gonna be as epic as they are. I’ll probably be on Mastodon when Eurovision’s live.
Anyway, nothing’s keeping you from the mainstream social media if that’s where you’ll find what you need. You’re always welcome here!