For Mastodon it’s the number of users that have logged in within the past month, so I presume Lemmy also tracks it with logins.

Given that the MAU count is still on a slow decline, with over 90% of Lemmy.world users being inactive, I think it’s more of an indicator that MAU counts should be made more prominent in frontends rather than total users.

A feature that Piefed has that I wish Lemmy would implement too is URL filters; perhaps it could be added to the chart after ‘word filters’?

Arctic has a great frontend implementation of it with Regex support, but the app hasn’t been updated in a while.

Also, for simplicity perhaps the tables should have the more advanced information implemented with a visibility toggle? All of the information listed may overwhelm new users and leave an impression that the Fediverse is particularly complex.

Odd, because it’s on the blocked list for the instance.

When accounting for several other relatively large instances I didn’t include in my original chart, fedia.io and lemmy.cafe also defederate lemmy.ml.

Expanding on @rimu@piefed.social’s point, the Piefed instances piefed.social and feddit.online silence lemmy.ml.

He’s drunk the AI Kool-Aid.

While we should all be grateful for the work the developer put into the project, it’s also not uncommon for open source projects to use life cycle planning to determine potential redundancies if the original developer steps down. As things stand, their contributions are likely to go to waste, whereas ideally others could have picked up the torch from where they left off, preferably with historical data intact.

With how important Fediverse Observer is, the developer should have made an effort to hand it and its data over to another member of the community before winding the project down.

Have you contacted them about the discrepancy? Ideally FediDB could just become the new Fediverse Observer.

Missing out on accurate data about Fediverse growth would really suck. 😕

Not 40, but also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling my data for profit, training an LLM with my data, or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

An unstated rule is that the stories told must be real.

Quality semantic parsing requires some LLM, there’s not much leeway around it.

Many things that were done entirely without LLMs before seem to magically ‘require’ them now.

The average user can’t be expected to remember all of the commands needed to use their regularly used programs, and those that don’t want to shouldn’t be expected to.

For instance, the terminal could be used to reformat storage devices, but MintStick essentially replicates the Windows GUI for doing it, making the transition less cumbersome for the average user.

The more users Linux has the more resources it will get. For power users, nothing stops developers from also maintaining terminal support.

The more you get into using Linux, the more likely you are to start using the Terminal for various tasks. Now, I’ll admit that you don’t need to do everything in the Terminal. But I truly believe knowing your way around it is pretty vital to the Linux experience (for me, anyway), whether it’s learning basic short commands or playing video through the Terminal.

To make Linux more palatable to Windows and macOS users, I think it’s important to shift as much of the Linux experience away from the terminal and into GUI programs as possible.

Hopefully some of the growth is real, though per @Vicinus@piefed.zip here, Pixelfed and Writefreely may be encountering MAU-inflating spam waves.

This is a great way to watch stuff while minimizing Google’s ability to tie watch history to personal identifiers.

The Threadiverse is the thread-based subset of the Fediverse (primarily Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin).

He didn’t have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

When the Steam Deck and Steam Machine are marketed as computers, immutability is a severe limitation as to what can be accomplished without changing the installed distribution.

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Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies

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Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare

Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus

Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals

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With DHH already being problematic, the moral foundation for the rest of the distribution’s financing seems dubious at best.