troyunrau

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Chasing the dragon again eh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Unrelated to the other question: any geoguesser?

My best guess is Kluane Lake, Alaska Highway through the Yukon. But Google Street view says there is more taiga there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What does the original say? Poetry? Fanfics?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same happens to me. Note9..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

A KDE powered device of some sort. Laptop? Phone? Media boxen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

See also: Yuri Knorozov

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

They died. But it was unrelated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The only way the US ever regresses from its current position is through internal disarray. They cannot be challenged by external forces, not in the foreseeable future anyway. Unfortunately, internal disarray of the magnitude required to effect the changes espoused herein are basically impossible without full scale civil war erupting. And that would be bad or worse. When the medicine is worse than the disease, you accept the disease.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand how authoritarian leaning conservatives and free speech absolutists align most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is such an interesting development. I bet a lot of dirty laundry is about to be aired.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, this is going into my queue!

 
 
 
 

I'm assuming I can polish the plastic on the headlights in my 2006 Toyota Matrix. I plastic is still "clear", but all the road grit over the years have pitted and fogged the surface. Any advice on material for polishing?

 

Sticking point is how much access U.K. producers should have to the Canadian cheese market

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/12971023

Hi folks, out of pure curiosity, I was poking some graphs.

It's been about half a year since the big API protest, so I was curious to see what Lemmy's crtitical mass looks like, what the staying power is, etc. Screenshots taken from https://the-federation.info/platform/73 on 2024-01-09. I'm posting screenshots because they're a snapshot in time, and because that stats server is very slow.

Because I'm posting on lemmy.ca, I'll post quite a few related to this instance, but it's probably more widely applicable and you can get graphs from your instance too. I'll also post some lemmy.world and lemmy.ml graphs, since they make interesting points of comparison -- biggest server, and original server.

First, lemmy-wide total users count, where this is a rolling one month window. If a user was online within the month, they count here.

First observation -- there's some jagged edges in the graph due to things popping in and out of the federation. So it's probably more useful to look at single servers. Lemmy.world came online pretty much coincidentally with the API protest and had open registration, so it makes a good data point. You can see the surge of users, then the plateau of the people who stuck around:

Lemmy.ml below has a similar curve, plus some sort of data artefact.

As does lemmy.ca, below:

I suspect the data artifact is related to the transition from 0.18 to 0.19 and something changed in the way active users was counted in between. Lemmy.world is still running 0.18.5.

Notes: The difference between the peak and the plateau is higher on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml -- I suspect this is because they were more popular places to sign up during the protest. Whereas lemmy.ca has retained more users, as a percentage. Still, the total number of active users on each server is quite low.

In the same order (total, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca), total posts. The slope of this line represents post rate. Steeper line is better. Flat line means dead instance.

And comments. I wish there was a comments to posts ratio, which would be some indication of engagement levels. But you can sort of work it out.

Anyway, looks like post rate has decreased slightly since the initial bump, but are still looking good. But the comment rate hasn't flattened as much. So the users that were retained seem to be more engaged than the users from the initial bump. I think this is a good thing for the health of lemmy. Likewise, the growth in supported apps, improvements to the software (Scaled sort in 0.19 is night-and-day better than anything prior!), and others will allow lemmy to not only survive, but be ready for whatever influx happens next.

I want to send a special shout out to all the admins, particularly on my home instance of lemmy.ca, and the coders who keep improving things. Thanks for giving us all a home!

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