Wow. That’s a fucking wild story. Rwandan genocide leader > Hamptons beekeeper

Man of many talents. But honestly they should have seen this coming

falsely denying in the applications under penalty of perjury that he ever engaged in genocide

I wonder how many immigration applicants actually answered yes to that question 😅

You have my blessing, go forth and drain the machine. Godspeed

Trying to outlast a machine in a battle of stamina? You’re gonna have a tough time with that

Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told

There’s not a lot of content creators or journalists that are actually trustworthy and professional nowadays. GN definitely produces high quality content and I trust their integrity. Always a good idea to support these kinds of reliable media sources, given how few of them are actually left.

I’ve watched a bunch of their YouTube videos but I’ll have to check out the blog also, thanks for the link.

If the boot fits…

If you have only been here for a month it’s not enough time to judge if the culture is changing, no?

Also you’re saying two different things, that people are negative and rude and that they aren’t expressing any passion. I think some users are negative and rude, but they definitely still express passion even though it isn’t always positive. Lemmy users have always held strong and passionate beliefs, it’s part of why we decided to leave mainstream social media and use Lemmy instead.

Sometimes those beliefs clash, but I don’t think it’s gotten any more negative lately. Plus it varies so much from server to server and community to community. It’s pretty foolish to paint all of Lemmy with the same brush because really it’s a bunch of independent communities with different attitudes and behaviors that are also able to interact with each other.

I tried removing a bunch of the old hexbear communities. Did that help at all?

Also sorting communities by total subscribers is a bad system. It’s more useful to sort by monthly active users imo.

You can use lemmyverse to sort by active users.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

Feddit.org technically meets the criteria. Along with many other Lemmy servers.

But as far as brands that sell consumer goods, it’s slim pickings. Most of them end up going out of business and/or getting bought up by investors/competitors.

Nice one

This is a good list of communities.

Are you looking to share your own artwork? Then [email protected] seems like a good option. Otherwise I’m not really sure. You could always start your own community to post in.

Lol indeed, people don’t think it be like that but it do

Ha! Airsick Lowlander

Automatic username choices are considered a feature? Jfc that’s depressing

Name checks out

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.

It’s kinda wild that people think new Digg is going to be any kind of solution or alternative. It’s the same shit wrapped in a different package

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 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 an option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.

If I’m not happy with how /r/knives is run on Reddit, I can make /r/knife to compete with it.

This doesn’t work too well in practice though, as we saw on reddit. If a new user looks for a subreddit about knives, 9 times out of 10 they will find r/knives and if it’s decently active they’ll never learn about r/knife. The name squatters have a massive advantage over the alternatives based on that alone.

Granted, the instance based community system has a similar problem where the communities on the biggest instances will have an advantage in attracting new users. But it’s a lot easier to overturn because you don’t have to use a janky alternative name, and you can easily publicize poor moderation and dissent on other servers.

Without the alternative server component, holding control over certain community names is way too powerful, and over time results in a significant degradation of the usability of the site, as it becomes harder and harder to find the actual well-moderated communities. Using alternative names doesn’t solve the problem, it just provides a temporary workaround. Federation actually solves the problem in the long term.

There is definitely room for improvement on the modlog. But also moderators and admins can view the full removed comment and media, so it’s not like that’s impossible. It’s a hell of a lot better than nothing, that’s for sure.

Okay. I’ve just read like 50 comments from you in a couple different threads, I didn’t realize this all happened today.