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  • What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms?

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  • I don't understand the question. Pretty much all fediverse software was built with federation in mind from the start. They all started from scratch afaik, nothing was built on top of a centralized design.

    They also happen to perform similar functions as earlier centralized websites, but that's simply because those are the ways that people commonly prefer to use the internet. People use it to share photos, stream videos, connect with friends, microblog, blog, browse content aggregators, etc.

    There could definitely be new paradigms of internet usage waiting to be discovered, but if the fediverse can't even replace the existing functionality of the web first, it'd be very ambitious to start building brand new types of sites already.

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • That's true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn't post or comment.

    But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we've seen some really nice organic growth, although it's not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it's really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • Wow. Absolute legend

  • DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media?

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  • Tbf, Kendrick Lamar is an unbelievably talented musician. Drake is just a lame ass celebrity, you can easily ignore him and be better off.

    But Kendrick has made some really fantastic albums. If you're not into rap than you might not care too much anyway, but he doesn't belong in the same conversation as Drake, despite their dumb ass feud.

    I don't even like hip-hop that much but Section 80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are easily among my favorite albums of all time.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • https://discuit.net/

    One of the more commonly recommended reddit alternatives aside from Lemmy. Goes to show how far ahead we are of any other alternative, they all have virtually no activity.

    Also note that we bottomed out around 37k in October 2024, so we have seen pretty significant growth since then, and it seems to be accelerating.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • Lol for real?

    The main thing I heard about Bluesky is that it costs like $100 mill to run your own instance or something like that, so they only have one main instance for now. They technically have federation, but for all intents and purposes, it's just another centralized corporate service waiting to be enshittified.

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    Wat are some fun communities to get away from the trump spam on lemmy

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  • Lol that's a good one, subscribed

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    Wat are some fun communities to get away from the trump spam on lemmy

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  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • Thanks. At first, I just happened to notice that the graph didn't match up with the table below. And then when I pulled up the source I realized there were many more errors.

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • The irony 🫠

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • Austria, Ireland, Denmark, and Finland are all DAC members and aren't included in the graph. The graph is unequivocally misleading, which is my original point.

    The article itself does have a more comprehensive table, but it uses outdated figures from several years ago. The title of the article is "List of development aid sovereign state donors" and yet it excludes major ODA donors such as Saudi Arabia, not only from the DAC list but also from the second list.

    I don't understand why people keep defending this when I outlined like 10 separate errors already. Are you even reading my comments or am I responding to bots?

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • It isn't titled "foreign aid per capita among western countries" though. The fact that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also in the top 20 paints a very different picture of what placing highly on the list actually means.

    Furthermore, it doesn't say "among western countries with greater than 8.5m population except for Norway which is much smaller". The caption says "among countries with large populations", where a large population is defined as greater than 8.5 million. That's extremely misleading and arbitrary. And then Austria and Saudi Arabia are omitted anyway, despite fitting all the above criteria.

    So yeah, I would definitely go so far, and in fact I considered going further and calling it outright misinformation.

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • Still doesn't explain the omission of Austria (9m) or Saudi Arabia (32m).

    I don't really know how to navigate Wikipedia but the user account seems pretty normal, it was probably just an honest mistake. It seems like they use scripts to make a lot of graphs and maybe some wires got crossed.

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • I understood perfectly fine. You are the one who seems to be misunderstanding something.

    Saudi Arabia has a higher per capita ODP than three countries that are shown on this graph. Why was it excluded?

  • A resource to help introduce people to the Fediverse

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  • I think you did a really good job with this video. I kinda agree that it might be too long to hook complete newcomers. But it seems like a very useful resource for people who are just starting off on the fediverse or have heard about it a few times and want to understand more about how it actually works before really getting into it.

    I think there will be a good number of people who bounce off the fediverse a few times before starting to actively use it, because it is relatively complex compared to mainstream social media. But then they will keep getting annoyed at corporate social media sucking and will eventually fully commit to the fediverse. This video could definitely help people take that step, and it really captures a lot of what makes the fediverse so great. Nicely done!

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • But Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Austria are DAC members and they were still omitted. It's just a bad job by whoever made that graph.

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • This graph is extremely misleading.

    First of all it states in the caption that it only includes

    highest donation rates among countries with large populations

    Even of this disclaimer were true, it's completely arbitrary and makes no sense. Norway (5.5 million) has about 8 times the population of Luxembourg (670,000). Whereas the US (340 million) has about 60 times the population of Norway. If such a size discrepancy is so meaningful that Luxembourg should be excluded, then how can it be relevant to compare Norway with the US despite the vastly larger population discrepancy? Luxembourg should be #3 btw along with Liechtenstein (2) and Monaco (4).

    More damningly, they don't even live up to their disclaimer. Taking the numbers straight from the quoted source. They randomly excluded Denmark (7) and Ireland (8), which are just as populous as Norway and almost equivalent to Sweden in per capita ODA. They also excluded Iceland (11) and Finland (12), which come in above UK/Canada/Belgium/France. And then as the cherry on top they conveniently excluded Qatar (17) and Saudi Arabia (18). The US is #19. And then it's also missing Austria (20), UAE (21), and New Zealand (23), before you get to Australia, which is actually 24th, not 12th.

    Furthermore, ODA is just a small part of the economic picture. As it states in the wikipedia article

    by definition, ODA does not include private donations

    The US is giving approximately $64.5 billion annually in ODA. In comparison, private charitable donations from American individuals, foundations, and corporations totalled $557 billion in 2023, with 67% of that money coming from individual donations.

    Granted, many of those donations are directed towards domestic causes, but even if a relatively small percentage is directed towards foreign causes, it alters the narrative that is told by this graph. For instance, this organization is largely funded by the Gates foundation, which is a private charitable organization, and thus not included as ODA.

    The foundation has donated more than $6.6 billion for global health programs, including over $1.3 billion donated as of 2012 on malaria alone, greatly increasing the dollars spent per year on malaria research. Before the Gates efforts on malaria, malaria drugmakers had largely given up on producing drugs to fight the disease, and the foundation is the world's largest donor to research on diseases of the poor. With the help of Gates-funded vaccination drives, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 90 percent since 2000.

    In conclusion, I feel like that graph helps paint a certain political narrative that isn't even remotely accurate, partially because it randomly omits about half of the countries in the top 25, and partially because it's measuring a very limited subset of philanthropic activity.

  • Why do I feel itchy every time I go under my deck?

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  • I initially read this as desk and I was so confused 😅

  • Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time

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  • That's fair, but also reddit will continue to make unpopular decisions, and we are already the default alternative. Just have to wait and see