Engage with communities here. The politics and tech communities are lively enough, but niche communities are lacking. Give people a reason to come here who aren’t politics/tech junkies.

Not mine, just a pic I found online

They do come from a land down under…

Same.

Going to new, or staying on hot?

Your catto has good taste

Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.

dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

.world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.

It’s “The Gaza election boycott was responsible for sinking the Demokkkrats!” simultaneously with “You can’t blame us calling for boycotting Harris over Gaza causing Trump, who will give massive amounts of aid to Israel’s genocide, because it was inconsequential!”

It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.

Users about halved in the ~3 months after the initial exile. It’s increased since then, but not yet to the point that it was at during the initial exodus.

Red fascists despise minorities and will do everything in their power to ensure we suffer.

Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

Lemmy is a very small audience at present.

[buys cat a nice bed]

[cat still chooses the dog’s bed]

Most games I loved as a kid I still love as an adult. Some I even love more - especially those with stories I didn’t fully understand at the time. What do you mean Tactics Ogre was about genocide and ethnic conflict? I thought it was about turning everyone into the ninja or swordmaster class??

Fighting games I’ve lost my taste for, I suppose, though I played those more because they were on every damn demo disc. Though I still remain strangely good at them. A friend of mine picked up some esoteric modern indie fighting game two years ago or so and I fucking crushed them without even knowing the controls while they had several hours of practice under their belt, lmao.

Legitimately laughed

There are more contributions now than there used to be, but if no one has posted in a day, I try to make a post.

… I still post most days.

It takes a large userbase. I remember on The Old Place a community might need 2 or 3 thousand subscribers before it became truly self-sustaining. The more esoteric and obscure the knowledge or material needed to post, the more subscribers you need - meme communities can hit it at 2-3 thousand, while others, like history communities, can reach 5k and still be reliant on a small number of contributors.

lmao

One of the most accurate estimations it’s made thus far though.

WFH + ADHD + Cripple = Terminally online

Pour one out for me 😔

(More seriously, I alt-tab away from whatever I’m doing to make a quick post every few hours. I’m just a meme vector, not a meme maker; it takes me like ten minutes and contributes a little life to my favorite Fediverse communities, so it’s no skin off my back!)

Younger Me was so upset when there was no way to have Atris admit her love obsession and join you in a Dark Side playthrough.

That’s disgusting.

Obviously the only true path is for the exile to admit complete and total wrongdoing and join Atris.