• ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
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      4 months ago

      More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

        • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.

          • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2

  • RangerJosie@sffa.communityEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m new here coming from Reddit.

    Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

    I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

  • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here. Two days old today, baaabbby!!

    Doing my part tho! I’ve created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)

  • Sesudesu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

  • micl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m here after the reddit news. Was a little confusing at first.

    By the way, what are “subreddits” called on lemmy? I can see they start with “c/“ instead of “r/“.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

    So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

      Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

      Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        4 months ago

        there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

        Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

        • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

      • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        probably the best (or least worst) indication of that is sorting issues by “thumbs up” on github, see lemmy and lemmy-ui. I think having a survey among donors (like godot had on patreon) is a better indicator.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I was so confused when I heard about lemmy-ui-leptos, it really sounds like a waste of time to me 🤷‍♂️

      I’m sure everyone has a different opinion, but I think the most important new feature should be the plugin system. It seems like the only way to scale up the number of contributors and support a variety of languages.

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

  • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

    Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I pretty much got permabanned for ban evasion, even though I was on an alt that has no reference to the others other than being on the same IP, my other accounts got banned simultaneously.

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Same thing happened to me. 7-day ban evasion suspension instantly into a perma on three accounts at once all because a single subreddit mod threw a fit when I accidentally posted there again off r/all on an alt.

        They were all made with the same email address so I could have easily made another alt by now and kept posting but I’ve taken it as an opportunity to do a Reddit detox

    • Asudox@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I agree. I came here for two reasons:

      • Reddit is proprietary
      • Shit mods
      • API paid
      • Karma system

      Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fucj spez

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Didn’t sound like a toxic asshole to me. But I grew up in the rural midwest in the 90s. That just sounds like someone making a comment, from my culture.

        But go on, policing everyone’s tone. I’m sure it’s great for diversity.

  • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    We’ve definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups