My understanding of the political landscape of specific instances is:

• Neo-liberal: Lemmy.world, Piefed.social (maybe)
• Marx-Leninist (ML): Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net
• Anarchist: Lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus

Everything else is pretty unaligned. However, ~50% of users are on those instances.

That was super cool (especially the wicks). Thanks for sharing.

I may have to try the bottle growing setup.

Upvoted, because I think it’s unknown, so unpopular. Though it sound like a good idea to me.

I’m curious to hear any drawbacks others find.

That was a very interesting post. Thanks for sharing :)

I’m pretty sure there were a few months were it was over 2000.

Using your link quickly, I found 1600 in late 2024 and early 2025.

Still multiple days over 1200 is a local max for the year, I’d bet.

Worthwhile post, wrong community.

I may have misunderstood your comment.

If you’re asking what the downsides of not using “feeling” language is, from my perspective, when a comment is just stated, the statement comes across as a statement of fact, rather than someone’s understanding.

Someone’s understanding of something is not always fact and by lowering the statement from a ‘fact’ to an ‘understanding’ it lowers the temperature when information counter to someone’s understanding is presented.

My experience, is that it also helps start a dialogue. Example:

Person 1: “My understanding is that the government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “I hadn’t heard that. My understanding is that homes are heated with building heaters. Can you provide me with a source to look more into the lasers you described?”

Versus: Person 1: “The government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “You’re wrong. Homes are heated with internal heaters. Where did you hear that?”

From my perspective, the first exchange is more amicable and the second more contentious and more likely to lead to insults rather than a constructive conversation.

Edit: spelling.

Nothing. They’re a suggestion. I’ll work on restating the list to better reflect that. Appreciate the feedback.

Probably should be reworded as a suggestion rather than a rule.

Maybe a simple program that grabs an RSS feed from steam and searches the title for key words.

If keywords are found it passes the notification to you. Otherwise, ignores it.

I was actually working on something to measure this today. I may have something for you tomorrow. Otherwise, it’ll probably be next week.

Update: I’ve gotten all the servers (Mbin, Piefed, Lemmy) and the stats for each (users, comments, posts). I’ll need to work to make that data into something useful.

Trivia: it takes about 6 minutes to request data from all ~300 servers.

Update 2: I found, I think, some interesting analyses (ex. retention efficiency, current vs. historical activity, etc.). Not sure how I’m going to fit 300 servers with 25-30 columns each in a post, though. Problem for next week.

Update 3: improved building the server list (now >500 servers) and found a couple more analyses that might be interesting. Working on the post script, finish tomorrow or Monday. Also, I’ve been grabbing the data daily so date/days could be another area of analysis.

Update 4: I have a plan for how to post the analysis, now just implementing it. May see the post tonight.

I think it would depend on the length of the book.

My viewpoint is the weekly reading should be digestible by the average user (reasonable number of pages). So if it’s a short enough book I think that would be fine.

Having the whole book each week may get people interested in the book, but less likely to actually attempt or succeed at reading it all.

I think key quotes would be a good addition to the idea.

They’d also have a very contentious discussion community.

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Edit: fixed link.

Edit 2: for clarity, I’m saying the topic is contentious (going to get very opinionated points of view), not saying anything about the mods/admins/users.

https://enclose.horse/ Day 122 🥈 Great 🥈 84% 🐴 💎 PERFECT! 💎 100% 🐴🧱

Feel bad about the 84, but gotta have bad days to have good days.

https://enclose.horse/ Day 121 💎 PERFECT! 💎 100% 🐴 💎 PERFECT! 💎 100% 🐴🧱

Today was a good day, not like yesterday…

My understanding is that anything that is using activity pub to communicate is the fediverse.

Software, instance, or channel that isn’t actively communicating via activity pub, is not the fediverse.

Software, instance, or channel that is actively using activity pub to communicate (even if they are using other methods too), is the fediverse.

I’ve never read the activity pub documentation, so maybe there is more to it than that, but the above is my current understanding.

Relevant part:

Declining birth rates for the fourth year in Germany

Last year marked the fourth consecutive year of decline in the birth rate and the lowest level since 1946.

Germany’s current replacement rate is at 1.35 children per woman, which is a record low and far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population.

The Destatis attributes this trend to the entry of the relatively small birth cohorts born in the 1990s into the crucial fertile age of their early 30s, as well as the decline in the total fertility rate since 2022.

As in previous years, the number of births in 2025 fell more sharply in the eastern German states (-4.5%) than in the western states (-3.2%) compared to 2024.

Contrary to the trend, Hamburg was the only German state with an increase in birth rates, rising 0.5% in 2025.

Dastatis longterm projections, which extend to 2070, found that the population could shrink by around 10%. The report concludes that immigration will not offset the decline.

Had another thought. If you could remote into their server could they not remote into your server?

I’m thinking this could be a good gateway trial option for clients. You set up services on your server and give them limited time access to the server to use the FOSS software. If they want, after the trial they can transfer their data. You then wipe the server to ensure their data is erased.

Also, an option I’m not sure you’d be excited about. You host everything for them and offer the service of using your server for their business needs (rather than just a trial). May be less headache in the long run (less overall hardware means less overall issues, presumably).

For the running of software on your server, I believe there are companies that do that already for the fediverse instances. May be worth looking at and seeing what they offer and for what price.

I think this could be a thing, but I feel getting the word out would be the hard part.

Maybe going to small business/incubator business networking events could provide potential clients. Getting in touch with incubators in general would probably be good, as they can pass word to their clients. Colleges and universities may be another avenue of getting the word out to potential new small businesses.

Also to consider, if it’s for businesses, there would need to be data redundancy. Otherwise, I feel, it would be a nonstarter. Data recovery/access to redundancy would likely need to be automated or very easy to do, otherwise you’re probably looking at irate calls in the middle of the night.

Language Transfer is free and teaches you why the language is the way it is rather than just memorization.

My recollection is you can get to a 3000 word conversational level much faster than via straight memorization (ex. Duolingo).