JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on A Fediverse Permaculture 8 hours ago:
Fair enough, and I think I'm mostly in agreement with you.
I think people almost always mean well - and of course those public instances were needed to get things off the ground but I'm going to say that I'd rather see that they eventually die off as smaller servers become easier to run and people actually have personal connections with whoever runs the server they are using (ideally themselves)
I've seen it speculated (or opined) that this tends to be where things are headed, based on the state of coming tech, ease of use, and current models. Something like that, anyway.
- Comment on A Fediverse Permaculture 2 days ago:
"Savior complex" seems way over the top when talking about what you're describing, which to me is a perfectly normal, healthy reaction for instance-runners and /c-runners.
While true that such thoughts must still bow to reality, in many cases these instance-runners really are doing an incredible, multi-faceted job, and it's true to at least some extent that they deserve to be thanked in various ways.
Meanwhile, my former instance (Lemm.ee, the 3rd largest at the time) went down essentially due to too many headaches created by asshole users. It's a real problem everywhere, and I think the average user here does owe some thanks for projects like this which are trying to serve their interests and not monetise them. In which threads like this are perfectly useful & appropriate IMO.
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 1 week ago:
it's well understood that homo didn't just magically start existing and that caused all of its ancestors to suddenly disappear...
Stuff and nonsense!!
It's well understood that their lordships the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Bob Dobbs one day decided to monkey with some hominids, producing H.s.s. in a lovely explosion of green gamma rays.As a natural followup, they erased all other living examples of genus Homo, and just for larfs-- added DNA evidence of crossbreeding with ~half a dozen of those others.
As a special bonus prank, they created one more of these apes, but this one was both immortal and mostly invisible. They taught him some simple parlor tricks, then they conditioned the poor fool in to thinking that he'd created everything in existence, including the previous ones.
Anyway, that's what I heard, man.
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 1 week ago:
Maybe I'm not quite getting it, but with mutations and natural selection happening on a never-ending basis, isn't this exactly what's to be expected with just about every life form on the planet?
One set doesn't necessarily swiftly disappear (or at all) with the arrival of a new species, right? Especially the more widespread is their habitat, I should think.
Or is this case more about helping to shore up the record for Homo, specifically?
- Comment on No Stone Left Unturned [Cosy Game] 2 weeks ago:
Just for gamers and casuals, what looks like a play-screen window is just a static screenie. You have to click the link right below in order to play.
If anyone is in touch with the author, I'd recommend removing the "play-about-exit" words on that image (to avoid confusion), as well as copying over the instructions & info to the final game-playing link.
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Answering the real questions!
- Comment on FediverseSlander, a pointless drama comm for kvetching about when there are blatant lies told about other users on the Fediverse. Come with receipts or not at all! 5 weeks ago:
But we are animals who can recognize and control whatever urges we have.
--> insert bark-like, high-pitched PeeWee Herman laugh! <--
Anyway, I think I lean in your general direction on this, but I'm open to the idea that it might help someone, somewhere. At least, I don't think I've ever heard of this type of /c before.
- Comment on Christ, Conquest, and the MDGs (Part 2) 5 weeks ago:
Ah, thanks. I get it now.
For anyone curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia! - Comment on Christ, Conquest, and the MDGs (Part 2) 5 weeks ago:
What is the "Britons Never Never" bit about..?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you're just pulling 'best of' content from elsewhere.
So-- IMO it's generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I've seen, most community founders don't necessarily realise that, and aren't actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).
IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the "ALL" feed. Whereas for example, that's almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!
- Comment on Lemmy is ... ahhrrr, c'mon ... WTF? ... the door! ... who the hell would ... ? ... where is this darn towel ... AHHH, FUUU ... hnnnrrghhh ... 5 weeks ago:
Everyone in the building happened to flush their toilets at the same time.
Fun factoid: there's an urban legend about so many people flushing their toilets during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl, that it actually broke municipal water mains.
- Comment on Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon 1 month ago:
] > https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs
Thanks; cool stuff. I just hope there's enough resiliency and backup in terms of personnel, such that such projects can go on indefinitely.
] > In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time.
Well, there's the rub-- by no means did I set out to create a blog-like project, rather that's what it happened to drift towards over time. My main intent was to create as close an alternative to r/bandedessinee as possible due to Reddit's self-immolation at the time. I didn't want it to be about me, but about community participation, eventually with other people overseeing the project, with myself being more of an occasional contributor. This is doubly the case due to significant health issues and living in a place currently drifting towards... some pretty disastrous general outcomes.
But yes, I've tried doing a couple blogs for awhile. I frankly prefer the Reddit/FV approach because I don't have to be as perfectionistic, 'complete,' and me-centred, plus it let's me work more in a style intended to get general discussion rolling.
As I said above, if PieFed / etc eventually offered the ability to assign transferred content with matching usernames to the new account, that would pretty much solve things for me. Or if the community owner had the ability to modify old content (showing that in a public log of course), then it would also solve things. I don't feel like I'm hoping for too much here, but maybe I'm wrong...
- Comment on Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon 1 month ago:
] > About the most robust and resilient instance, I'm not sure, monthly reports on !home@lemmy.zip are pretty transparent and detailed. Other instances like sh.itjust.works have very high uptime as well.
Yeah, the reason I say that is because Sunaurus had setup something like 10 sub-servers (most of them non-redundant) running the instance, at a cost of ~US$200/mo. I can't pretend to be any expert in such stuff, but my perception is that (rather famously unlike certain other instances) it was overall beautifully able to handle massive influxes of users, DDOS attacks, spam issues, outage issues, and whatever else. It also had a health-status link (now defunct) and I think maybe other user/server tools, as well.
So while I grasp the intrinsic, resilient nature of the FV, Lemm.ee to me was one of the strongest instances there was, and it can never be too good when such as those go down.
To me, it also kind of touches on certain problems of dead communities only getting conserved in 'ghost states' by the FV. I mean yes, you can still see them if you know how to look, but they can't be interacted with, and they'll never pop up in any feeds. They won't disappear, but I'm pretty sure that very few people are going to bother visiting them unless the content is absolutely stellar.
Another issue apart from that is that even when the content can be migrated to another instance, nobody can say with any certainty that such instance won't crash, either. There's also the fact that now that EGN's stuff is mostly migrated (with ~160 postings lost), I can't actually edit any of it even as the community owner. So personally, it's another big chonk of work trying to patch up any content that has aging issues... such as Imgur content needing to be re-uploaded, info updating, and/or links needing to be fixed. I.e., I'll need to delete, rework and re-launch so many of those aging posts when I'd much rather be focused on creating new content.
So from my POV, the situation is still a bit fraught, with the most obvious thing seemingly being migration tools needing to be improved, and community-owner tools needing a little more power. Now over on Reddit, people could say something like 'yeah yeah, I sold my soul to Spez, but at least we don't have any of those issues.'
So maybe if and when Reddit sets itself on fire again, the FV can be better-prepared to persuade users over. (knock on wood)
/rant?
- Comment on Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon 1 month ago:
My sense is that the article (and people in general) are dismissing the loss a little too easily. Here are my thoughts:
- IIRC it was the #3 instance by size in the entire FV. That's not nothing, and a lot of people were no doubt impacted.
- It was probably the most robust and resilient instance across the entire FV.
- The site-runner was a real pro at technical matters, and notably helped other instances deal with tech issues early on.
- The reason why the place went down, i.e. burnout and harassment across it's admin team, is something to be concerned about across the FV going forward. It's also something of an argument that for-profit social media networks (such as Reddit) have some key advantages over volunteer-based, FV-style networks.
- Comment on European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post) 1 month ago:
Danke, mein Freund, and we seem to have some similar traits & interests. I've subscribed to your "Demos" community, and hope I can maybe contribute in future. 🤓
- Comment on European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post) 2 months ago:
Okay, what think about it now?
I've put the link in the banner / description, as well as added it to the stickied 'move post.'
@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
- Comment on European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post) 2 months ago:
Happy to have you, once again! ^^
- Comment on European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post) 2 months ago:
There is indeed such a post (as you should be able to see?), but the link is in the body of the post (several times), not as a direct hotlink.
The issue I've always had with the standard Lemmy software is that it allows either a hotlink or an image in the 'URL' field, but not both. Take a look if you have a minute and let me know what you think, please?
- Comment on European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post) 2 months ago:
Ruh-roh. Does lemmy.cafe have a content migration feature as well?
- Submitted 2 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 19 comments
