I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.

Oh cool, thanks. I have friends in Texas and they make it sound like it could never happen.

Snowballs chance unfortunately. I understand getting a Democrat to win in Texas is effectively impossible.

Very cute! The grooming must be a task.

How do we know this post isn’t fake? Perhaps it’s all part of the ruse.

Even more, make it more like a backup feature that’s opt out not opt in. Thus, when a server goes away, the user still has their community list to import somewhere else.

Ehh, I’d like to think so. It looks like a ton of work to replace the single USB port in my center console. Most places want me to buy an entire radio kit that’s like $400 just to get a new port. I’ve looked into it briefly, but it looks like it’s financially untenable to replace what should be a $2 part if that.

No one could have predicted this /s

This might be the wrong place for this question, but I have heard criticism that real rust programs contain lots of unsafe code. Is this true?

Sounds like they lucked out into an awesome job with no real work required.

Sorry that’s the European version I only upvote the American version of the can.

Do you know where this post is when it’s time to pay up?

This sounds like a bug to me. At a minimum, it should be renamed to local subscribers rather than imply that it’s the total count.

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it’s better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife’s edge of creation, a new birth.

Just not using the app is better than using the app.

I think that the problem you describe is self-limiting because users can easily make accounts to get around an instance that limits the content users can view or just add an account for a more permissive instance. However, consider the following: humans tend to fixate on loss, and users aren’t tied down to using any particular instance or even just one, so they don’t have to compromise. You don’t lose anything by adding another account on another instance to your client. There are already clients that let you pull from multiple instances automatically.

Defederation that hurts users, by the judgment of those users, on a platform where it’s easy for your users to just join any other competing instances on a whim, tends to select against instances that defederate excessively. That is my hope.

So often I’ve pulled up my phone while it’s connected just to try looking up a destination while I’m parked. Being forced to use only the car interface for Maps while plugged in has always been awkward.

Shame that my single USB port that supports Auto is wearing out! Soon I’ll be reduced to Bluetooth only, and maybe a mount for the phone to keep the screen in arm’s reach without having to look away from the road.

I love that a service that isn’t making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.

This is happening because:

• Novelty, because new is fun. This will go down over time.
• The most passionate users are more likely to be early adopters. More casual users are coming.
• Smaller network means your content is less likely to be covered before. This factor will go down over time.
• Fediverse encourages multiple related communities, which means your specific contributions are more likely to be seen by other users.
• Lack of bots/astroturfing leads to more positive interactions. Bots will likely increase over time.

Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.

PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?

It is annoying, but at least it makes sense considering the few orders of magnitude growth they’ve experienced in two days and given that we are not the customer nor the product. Nobody is making money from this. Instead, we are benefiting from the generosity of those who host the service, much like Wikipedia.

As someone who has lived in the plains all his life, the idea of hills being a real thing that actually exists outside of movies seems strange.

Absolutely magical!