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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny... Let's have it!

Elsewhere:

  • Yrtree.me - it's still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me

  • Lemmy total number of users last month (very close to 1.5 M users)

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  • Lemmy seems to have that spirit of the Internet of the 90s, which I thought was long gone.

    That's what I like about the Fediverse too. After Big Tech started hoovering up eyeballs, I got disenchanted but this has put fire back in my belly.

  • Foreign adversaries will try to cast doubt on election results after Nov. 5, U.S. intel officials say

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  • Fucking Belgium is probably paying some troll to post on Lemmy.

    I'm open to offers from the Belgian secret services.

  • Jill Stein running mate likens Oct. 7 attack against Israel to Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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  • Yeah, I'm suspicious of people with high post counts too.

  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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  • They have !lemmybb@lemmy.ml

    Lemmy is just a forum set to sort by new posts, not new comments.

  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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  • Perhaps find like-minded folks and start one?

  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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    Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances

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  • They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

    Have you considered it's because of this?:

    My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

    I wouldn't run an instance that didn't allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

    It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn't seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

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    Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances

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  • Pinning threads is buggy across instances.

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    Should I make an askmenlemmy community? what do you think mates will you join to only men discussions on lemmy?

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  • Before the edit: you can start what communities you like.

    After the edit: please don't.

  • Man who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump at Florida golf club named. Who is he?

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  • A fucking spook cut-out trafficking mercenaries from Afghanistan to Ukraine

    Or just another one of the oddballs, liars and sociopaths who are the focus of the article.

  • Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?

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  • I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

    No need to be self-conscious - that's a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

  • Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?

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  • Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)

    This is the route I'd recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you'd be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.

  • Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?

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  • This has been our experience at feddit.uk. Well done to everyone over there. 👍

  • Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?

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  • Worth also noting that:

    • We are currently only using about 1/4 of the resources, so people could trim the cost further (although being over specced helps a lot when there are spikes in activity and it will mean we don't have to upgrade any time soon).
    • Our hosting costs are more that fully covered by around 20 people donating and that should scale with growth (although possibly not in a truly linear way). We also have a decent "warchest" which should see us through most temporary problems.

    One reason we break the finances down is because we are a medium-sized instance and we want to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to run one supported by donations.

    If anyone has any questions they are welcome to message me or they can drop it into the monthly financial report (the new one will be next week).

  • No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?

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  • Your call. I'll keep an eye out for progress.

  • No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?

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  • You and me to start, advertise for more. Should be fine. It is a niche meme community.

  • No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?

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  • I really shouldn't and meme communities can be a bit hectic but it is a bit niche so should be manageable and, having thought about it, I think it would work. So, yeah, do it!

  • No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?

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  • That's enough for me.

  • Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

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  • There are Fediverse blog platforms but, as this is about Tumblr, what about a Fediverse tumbleblog? You've got:

    • Wafrn
    • Loforo: "Another surprise is that Loforo is the second most active ActivityPub blog platform in the Fediverse, behind only WordPress."
    • Goblin - mentioned in the previous article. It's a FireFish fork from a former Tumblr employee.