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Sergio

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Hi, I'm also Terencio on mastodon.social and Sergio on lemmy.world.

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • I seem to remember Lemmy had a harder crash

    iirc during the r$ddit API debacle, Lemmy went from 1000 MAUs (40 MAU for kbin) to a peak of around 70k then down to around 38k MAUs (lemmy + kbin). However I think this was only counting posts and comments as "activity", I think it was around March 2024 they started counting up/downvotes as well and the MAUs stabilized in the lower 40ks for the rest of the year and is now slowly rising.

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • Yeah this is looking to be a really good growth period. Pixelfed went from 15K in late December to a peak of 300K plus, and if it levels out at 150K that's decent. I don't think you want to suddenly grow too fast on a fediverse platform with a single part-time developer who's also (singlehandedly?) running the main instance.

    One thing I wonder is: how many of those people were already active on other fediverse platforms...

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • As expected, after growing and plateauing, pixelfed's number of Monthly Active Users is now ebbing. If I understand the MAU stat correctly, this is because

    • users who posted/liked/commented over a month ago haven't done so since (retention)
    • new users haven't been checking it out as much -- a month ago this was driven by external events (mostly Zuck turning pro-Trump, I think.)

    As far as retention, I'm rooting for 200K+ but it looks like it might be around 150K. If I understand the Monthly Active User stat correctly, the line's going down because (a) new users have stopped joining as much and (b) people who posted/liked/commented over a month ago haven't done so since. I'm guessing that people who do this professionally have some kind of data-driven model that compares the ebb rate with the earlier decline growth rate, and has sample curves from previous social media growth periods. Just by eyeballing it, looks like over the last week pixelfed has lost like 10-20k users per day, whereas the month before the growth rate was around 40k per day.

    As far as external events, John Oliver briefly flashed the Pixelfed logo on screen this Sunday, maybe that's why the ebb was only 7k yesterday (a day or two to download and check things out before interacting?) Hey, people like 50501 are promoting boycotts of Amazon, Target, etc. maybe we should suggest boycotts of corporate social media? 50501 is organizing on r$ddit so I doubt they'd go for a complete boycott, but maybe it could be an "explore alternatives" or "bug out plan for social media" day or something.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Dunno, I like the fact that people here are tech-savvy. My HS guidance counselor said I should always hang out with people that are smarter than I am. That's why I like it here, everypony seems so knowledgable.

  • How to get a 5 yo started in (useful) computing?

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  • I have this kid relative. Whenever they visited, I'd take out a portable whiteboard and draw mazes for them. Then I'd have them draw mazes for me. Ofc we'd play lots of tic tac toe. Sometimes I'd write word puzzles, or math puzzles. (i.e. simple addition problems) Then I'd have them write some math problems for me. ofc they'd write huge numbers for me to add and I'd pretend I was confused and bewildered and I'd count on my fingers to solve them. It was just to have fun. It didn't involve a computer but it got them thinking, and now that they're older they like math. It's important that you emphasize the fun parts.

    I'd open up a computer with them and we'd look at stuff together. I'd say: "that's like the part that thinks. that's like the part that remembers. that's like the part that remembers a LONG TIME" etc. Then we'd look at the patterns on the circuit boards, etc. For Science Fair they did a project called "Will it Boot?" We took a computer, they opened it up, and removed the hard drive. Then we asked "will it boot?" and turned it on. Then we replaced the hard drive and removed the RAM and asked "will it boot?" and turned it on again. Etc. I took pictures of them opening the case, we made a table of what the PC could boot without, printed a diagram that I downloaded of the part names, put it all on a posterboard and that was the Science Fair project.

    This is your kid, right? Severely limit "tablet time" but don't worry about it being in their life -- back in the day we had TV which was not much better, and it's important that the kid have some knowledge of mass media to talk about with their future classmates. But tell them they can take it apart and put it together again whenever they want. And if it accidentally breaks when they're doing that, then sincerely congratulate them ("your first unsuccessful experiment!") and immediately head out to buy them a new one. Just get an inexpensive box that you can put Linux on. Easily. Like, let them put the USB stick in and boot it, and tell them what to press. (ahead of time, try to make sure it'll work!) (tell them "it's just a toy now, but we'll turn it into a REAL computer!") Then point Firefox to youtube and look up a video or something. Make sure the PC is somewhere public where you can see it too. Hang out and watch what they're doing, watch what they're watching. Talk back to the show. Make jokes about the show and tell the show when you don't like it. Come up with fanfic ideas. Me and my fam came up with this awesome alternate-reality Pokemon world and role-played it, resolving battles with "rock paper scissors" oops gotta go.

  • You have to tell me if you're a cop

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  • if this isn’t a proposition it’s none of your business

    and if it is I’m not interested

    I dunno... if the slide-deck was made from scratch just for me bc the person is too socially awkward to know how to "normally" proposition me... I'd at least complete it.

  • Wacky 90s fads [SMBC]

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  • Fam, stop giving away startup ideas for free! You're sitting on at least three winners there! /s kinda

  • Wacky 90s fads [SMBC]

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  • Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things

    I can never tell if that person is writing in that style ironically or not.

    I can't believe it! My hands are shaking, and I am PHYSICALLY ILL. I'm about ready to scream and I don't want to say this because nothing will be the same!

    Really!

    It's like when I wonder WHAT THE FUCK IS TRUMP DOING NOW? I mean this has nothing to do with that, but it's the same feeling.

    It's a feeling of Whiskey Tango Fox!!?! I am not exaggerating this! So get ready to hear what I've got to say! And what I've got to say is:

    Is that person writing in that style ironically or not?

  • What app/program do you browse through Lemmy with?

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  • Same! "open in new tab", history, and bookmarking are the big winners for me. I have Jerboa just to see what things look like on another platform tho.

  • Has anyone ever heard of the "classic prophet-squeeze-monster trope"? What could it possibly describe?

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  • Fascinating question. I have a couple (uninformed) guesses:

    • maybe "prophet" is a mis-transcription of "profit" and it refers to a "profit squeeze" meaning costs increase but results diminish. this is a way of handling the "game unbalance" problem: the technology is there but the cost is so high it doesn't unbalance things. So "profit-squeeze monster" means you just take that to the extreme.
    • instead, maybe the last two words go together to make "squeeze monster". You know like those rubber stress toys that you squeeze and part of the monster is an eye or something that bulges out. I seem to remember those being around in the 90s when this article is about. So "prophet / squeeze-monster" refers to two ways of limiting the game unbalance problem: the technology is either used as a "prophet" to just estimate your enemy or something, or its a "squeeze monster" where... uh... I dunno... you disfigure but don't kill the enemy?
    • instead, maybe "squeeze monster" is like you pull a trigger but can't control it.... you're a "squeeze monster"?

    If I were editing that article/review, I'd change the word "trope" to something like "technique" or "approach", bc "trope" sounds like it should be widespread. I'd guess it's probably a technique that game designers used and talked about to one another and had this term as a shorthand probably bc of some anecdote or cartoon or funny t-shirt that someone had once.

  • Bros

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  • I know this probably isn't AI because the blanket pattern is too sophisticated, but something about this says AI to me. What is it? Maybe bc the cat faces all look so similar?

  • ‘A LONG ONE’ [OC]

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  • Do you know anyone in real life that uses Lemmy?

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  • No. Even when I look in the mirror, I deny it.

  • Movies are so cheap anymore

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  • They're filming a version in space, but in one day in space is like a dozen years on Earth so it won't be done until 2187.

  • A daunting realization

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  • That's too slow. Take us to defcon one.

  • Removed

    USA | Since the Judicial branch is supposed to keep an eye on the other two branches, and all three are controlled by the GOP, what is there to do?

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  • Where do we really stand on supporting reddit migration? We want to get people off corporate social media right?

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  • I havent really kept tabs on how the “everything” feed works. Does it show posts from small communities here and there?

    If you want to see posts from small communities (balanced with the larger ones) then select "Scaled" instead of "Hot" or "Active".

    If you're sick of politics and tech then subscribe to communities you like and sort by "Subscribed" instead of "Local" or "All". Look here for relevant communities:

    These are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked)

    GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

    ART / PHOTOS

    ANIMALS

    COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

    ENTERTAINMENT

    GENRES / STYLES

    HISTORY

    INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE

    OTHER

    FEDIVERSE

    FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY

    MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR (NON-POLITICAL)

    Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes politics sneaks in but that's not the focus.

  • isitdownrightnow dot com

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  • Yeah, my first thought was wireless hotspot from a cell phone. Tho I'm on a plan with very little data bc I'm mostly on wifi.

  • Where do we really stand on supporting reddit migration? We want to get people off corporate social media right?

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  • Check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com ... people there are actively thinking about ways to help people migrate. To some extent also !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

    I don't think the barrier to entry is all that bad.... if you install Jerboa or Boost you're immediately presented with Lemmy content without worrying about creating an account... then you can get a feel for whether you like it or not.

    It's only a problem if someone is told they must choose a server and create an account to see Lemmy content at all. Ideally people would just be pointed to a server and told to select "Scaled" to get a sense of the smaller communities...