imaqtpie
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? 3 days ago:
Yes that does look like vote manipulation. Thank you for notifying us. Those accounts will be banned.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Do you ever let the kids play games with butt scooters like these? If not I would highly recommend adding them to your curriculum. Those things were the bomb
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
People tend to generalize and assume a lot without actually taking the time to verify their assumptions. It’s very frustrating when people demonize admins due to the bad behavior of a handful of users. Trying to win the approval of random goons is a waste of time anyway.
From my perspective you seem like a normal and good person and I think people will eventually come to see that as Lemmy grows up.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Dessalines and Nutomic are criminally underpaid. Lemmy development still has a long way to go and we could get there much faster if people donated more. But in typical Lemmy fashion, people would rather sit on their high horses and throw stones from their glass houses.
I started donating to the developers 2 days after I joined Lemmy and have given over $1k since then. I find the developers to be competent, mature, and reasonable. Similarly to many other contentious topics on this platform, the conversation regarding their perceived or imagined political beliefs is completely lacking in objectivity, logic, and nuance. Y’all actually be gossiping like teenage girls about these developers even while taking advantage of the fruits of their unpaid labor. I’ve seen all the evidence of their extremism and it’s quite underwhelming when you lay it all out.
And even if I did have major qualms about the devs, I would still argue that it’s much harder to justify using any products or services from large corporations like Amazon or Reddit than it is to monetarily support a FOSS project such as Lemmy. Out of everything I’ve spent money on in my lifetime, Lemmy is easily among the most morally justifiable expenses.
I eventually had to reduce my monthly contribution once sh.itjust.works started accepting donations, because I also feel strongly about supporting my own instance. It’s unfortunate that so many lemmings seemingly understand the fact that reddit has become an evil cancer and an alternative is sorely needed, but don’t seem to understand that creating such an alternative is a project that requires a massive amount of time and effort. Donating to your instance is great, but without continued development of the underlying software, it’s a futile effort. Even if you want to die on the hill of not donating to the big bad Lemmy devs, at least donate to PieFed or something! 2 patrons?!? As an early adopter userbase, we can and should be doing a lot more to support the fediverse monetarily, imo.
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 2 weeks ago:
You have my blessing, go forth and drain the machine. Godspeed
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 2 weeks ago:
Trying to outlast a machine in a battle of stamina? You’re gonna have a rough time with that
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 2 months ago:
Name checks out
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 2 months ago:
A good URL is extremely important for growth. But I wouldn’t say unfortunately, as I don’t think sh.itjust.works users have any desire to become a very large server. We seem to thrive as a smaller, more tight-knit community.
That’s the beauty of the fediverse, whether you’re on the largest or the smallest server, you are basically accessing the same content. The rapid growth of lemm.ee benefits all of us.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 2 months ago:
Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.
Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you’re now nearly twice our size.
It’s really nice to see this kind of growth because it’s steadily decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.
Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it’s great to see that new users are choosing the option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 2 months ago:
My feathers are totally unruffled. I just meant to give you advice to solve that problem. I’m sorry if my tone came off differently, but I was just trying to make a suggestion in case you didn’t know about Dark Reader
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 2 months ago:
I’m using dark reader for Firefox so it wasn’t an issue
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 2 months ago:
I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it’s understandable that he didn’t. Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can’t be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 2 months ago:
Surely has to be sopuli.xyz
Hosted by a Finn, although the servers are technically in Germany
- Comment on Fediverse House at SXSW (March 9-10) 2 months ago:
All centralized services. The fediverse is theoretically resistant to that kind of process.
Also you forgot Limewire, the GOAT
- Comment on FediDB.org has resumed crawling with robots.txt support 2 months ago:
Finally, I have been waiting for this.
Lemm.ee over 4,000 MAUs. Lemmy.ca and lemmy.dbzer0.com up to 1.5k after hovering around 1k for most of 2024. All of the major servers seeing solid growth. Good work lemmings, keep it up
- Comment on I created a community for the popular trucking game "Snowrunner"! 2 months ago:
Snowrunner is dope
Also welcome to Lemmy if you’re new! Or even if you’re not, thank you for your contribution 🫡
- Comment on Wheel of Time - for both the book and show fans 2 months ago:
It’s not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I’ve only read it once and that was over a decade ago.
The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It’s just such a daunting task to get started 😅
- Comment on Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback! 2 months ago:
Wow this guide is really good and easy to read, amazing work!
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Once you’ve read the Silmarillion, there’s also The Children of Húrin. If you start from the Hobbit > LOTR > Silmarillion > CoH, it’s basically a steady progression of increasing epicness and tragedy.
I suppose the Silmarillion is the most epic, but Children of Húrin is the most intensely tragic.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 2 months ago:
Yes this is good to know, I wasn’t aware of the background with some of the fediverse projects.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 2 months ago:
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, or browse content aggregators.
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.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 months ago:
Wow. Absolute legend
- Comment on A resource to help introduce people to the Fediverse 3 months ago:
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!
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 3 months ago:
Scroll down this thread, a couple people already gave some info on this.
Long story short, Liberapay doesn’t take any cut of the donations, as they are entirely funded by donations themselves. Ko-fi has some very small platform fees. Not a very big difference but Liberapay should be slightly more cost efficient, especially for a recurring donation.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 3 months ago:
Mad lad!
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 3 months ago:
DM me about it or make a post in another community if you disagree with what I said. This thread isn’t the place to have that discussion, it’s off topic and drama-stirring.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 months ago:
I might post about the hexbear reaction to this post later. It was amusing to say the least. But I would post that to !meanwhileongrad, this has already been plenty of drama for the main community.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 months ago:
Yeah jealousy was not the best word to use. And also it’s understandable that people don’t want to cheer on the US or Americans at all.
But on the other hand, the change that we are all looking for is going to have to ultimately come from Americans on some level. There isn’t any plausible way that another nation can violate the geopolitical status quo in a major way without the US leveraging its economic and military power to prevent things from being disrupted. That’s been proven many times by all of the interventions the US has done towards communist states and parties all around the world. Any kind of revolutionary political or economic movement in another country is likely to get sabotaged by American espionage, military force, or economic sanctions.
So at the end of the day, acting all angry towards Americans just reinforces the current system, because it causes people to dig in their heels and change from a progressive mindset to a defensive one. You need to have Americans on the inside to effect change, and Lemmings are the type of Americans who are already walking that path, only to get shoved off the path by tankies and others who continually abuse them, until they get sick of it and return to the corporate internet, where they can at least feel some superficial validation. In an ideal world, people wouldn’t be so weak-minded, but they are, and we need to understand that if we are interested in changing their opinions, and ultimately the changing the nature of the government that they allow to exist.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 months ago:
Sorry but I just replied to the same suggestion so I’m just gonna copy paste my reply below
In general, I agree, but I’m concerned with the prevalence of vote manipulation and shithousing on this site, and I feel like my past track record on this account is one of the only ways for me to protect myself from the constant baseless accusations of being a Russian shill, being a right winger, etc.
I feel that someone needs to be able to counter the increasing tendency towards absolute ideological purity that is strangling this platform, and if people don’t know me from a hole in the wall, it’ll be that much easier to discredit me when I try to criticize the circlejerking that goes on here.
In other words, I’m a human being, and I have opinions, and I’m flawed. But that doesn’t mean I can’t or don’t try my best to act objectively and in the best interests of the server when I’m performing my admin duties. That’s reality, and hiding behind alt accounts just to pretend that I’m a pure paragon of justice on my admin account isn’t really my style, and I don’t really see how it would benefit anyone.
And just in response to your comment specifically, I don’t view my actions over the past few days as having been “spicy” takes, or exhibiting an attitude of partying in a frat house. Some of the things I said were quite frank, yes, but I only came out and said them because I felt that people needed to hear them and respond to them for the good of Lemmy.
As much as people won’t ever believe me in this, I probably wouldn’t have even said any of that crap if I was just a normal user, because personally, I don’t really get upset easily, and I don’t go out of my way seeking confrontation. It’s the fact that I am an admin that led me to speak out, because I feel like these behaviors are harmful to my users who I’m supposed to advocate for and protect, and harmful to the success of Lemmy, which I’m deeply invested in through my role as an admin.
