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- Comment on we need more users 2 days ago:
I’d say monthly active looks pretty much stagnant. Of course we would all benefit from greater adoption.
For me it was spezgate that brought me to abandon reddit. Yes, a platform is only as valuable as its userbase. Someone else here boiled it down to “quality over quantity”. I don’t expect this to be the final verdict on the trend.
To me this is a lot like Linux vs Windows market share. Microsoft are currently doing everything in their power to enshittify Windows 11. But the endgame for a community first product like Linux isn’t to promote itself better towards potential switchers. People need to make that switch themselves.
The big tech product will probably always “win” in terms of adoption, even if it is inferior in terms of its own merits. At the end of the day nobody wants to be Microsoft (reddit) in this analogy. And Apple (bsky) isn’t that much better.
- Comment on we need more users 2 days ago:
Couldn’t say it any better. If stagnant popularity is what is necessary to stay unattractive for botnets and bad actors I personally am all for it.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 1 week ago:
Thanks for the reply. So what kind of magnitude are we talking on the RAM usage here? Some people here talked about not being able to fit it inside 2G total. So I assume it’s probably like hundreds of megs which is only really significant in such low memory configurations.
- Comment on This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this? 1 week ago:
That was the red flag for me personally in terms of giving it a try. At the first accusation they said “the code is there, I have nothing to hide” and then it devolved into (paraphrasing) “I took down issue reporting because people kept abusing it.”
So assuming the best case scenario where the code is clean and it’s just a misunderstanding you’re still looking at a creator who is willing to censor the community he simultaneously seems particularly eager to reach by self-promoting his project. Not my jam.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 1 week ago:
For how long and how do resource usage and storage space used look by now?
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
Is the word still used there?
Leader would be “Anführer” these days. “Führer” was probably a perfectly neutral word before 1933. Now you just can’t use it anymore without alluding to that period. You can call your mountain guide “Bergführer”. All such derived terms are unaffected, but “Führer” is basically off limits for anything outside the Nazi Germany context.
In it’s used context for Hitler it straight up means dictator
From what I gather I don’t think the German people meant it like that (read: they weren’t supposed to). Of course he was the solitary head of state and everybody knew that his word was above any other’s, but addressing him as “my Leader” is much more about ideology than politics. The honorific would’ve probably been “my Chancellor” if it had been about his political authority. As “Führer” he was the figurative savior of the German people after the perceived injustices encapsulated in the WW1 armistice. And he did lead them back towards a sense of national pride that was completely shattered after 1918.
Being a political figure was just a means to an end for him. If he hadn’t been dismissed as a bad artist by a Jewish professor and if WW1 had taken a different course who knows what he would’ve ended up doing with his life. His weapon was his voice and that weapon was fueled by all these toxic convictions. If your hatred is aimed towards entire peoples and nations I guess your only shot at revenge is becoming a politician.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 3 months ago:
The fact that ISPs can do this should be a fkn outrage. But this is so far removed from what people care about. And so net neutrality gets eroded.