Basically China, India and Japan with a Vietnam somewhere but they don’t want to talk about it.

Africa is huge

Oh I know … I noted it as a positive of the map … probably makes Africa feel appropriately big compared to the rest of the world.

It is quite funny to see the US and the Americas generally kinda cast to the side in this map.

While it’s obviously putting China and Asia in the middle (actually looks like India is right in the middle) … as far as making certain areas look bigger or smaller than actually are, compared to the standard mercator style projections … Russia and Greenland seem to be the “losers” here while Africa looks relatively huge.

That’s actually quite cool. Its nice how the world’s geography is reflected in the broad structure of the map (as it’s have to be I presume).

Thanks!

Yea those Andes are crazy … no wonder the Amazon comes out of them!

From the little I saw (and zero Rust, or Tokio (I think they use that) knowledge) … federation workers weren’t persisting correctly whenever it would hit certain errors or problems.

It was only 0.19.0 instances, it affected outgoing federation only it seems, and it only started happening after a certain amount of time, basically when an error occurred the process would stop.

So it seems reasonable that it didn’t cause mass breakdown of the network.

Anyone else not able to see this pinned post on every second refresh?

• web interface
• Subscribed, Hot

They used to test on dedicated testing instances. They probably have for this already.

In the case of lemmy.ml, the users here are probably a bit old hat and dedicated to the cause and so relatively happy to help the project out while the dev team and resources are small. Meanwhile there’s undoubtedly great value in testing on a live and substantial server rather than merely a mock.

As for each new version getting worse, that’s not my impression at all.

I had a little bit of a look at it a while ago.

From memory it’s not really sophisticated. I think it divides a post’s score by the number of users its community has. So it’s not so different from upvotes / user.

It may use monthly active users rather than absolute, I’m not sure.

9. … I never expected this when I started contributing to Lemmy.

Honestly heart warming to hear!

I would rather implement a way to export/import account data. Thats much simpler and can also be used as a backup in case your instance goes down.

This makes a lot of sense and would be quite useful too! As taking your posts with you is hard to implement (AFAIU), migration really just comes down to importing data like subscriptions.

Hope multiples are ok …

1. As platform developers, do you have any thoughts about ActivityPub? Positive/negative critiques, needed developments (in your opinions), usage gripes or tips for other platform devs, future predictions?
2. As devs of (now) the second largest platform next to mastodon (by some metrics), which are probably as distinct platforms can be in terms of format, do you have any views on interoperability between platfroms over ActivityPub, where a common critique (AFAIK), from *diaspora devs for example, is that sharing posts/information of different formats just doesn’t work well over AtivityPub and so is one of its major flaws?
3. Arguably the fediverse has so far sought to replicate the corporate big-social platforms … should new design evolution occur now and if so how?
4. Much has been made by some of how the lack of user-friendliness of the fediverse really isn’t anything to celebrate and should be taken more seriously by users and devs alike (see, eg, Erin Kissane who focuses on mastodon). However much this applies to lemmy (where issues of user mobility probably do apply), do you think the fediverse needs a better story around catering to user needs?
5. Do you have any thoughts on the server-based architecture of the fediverse (where all user accounts are bound to a particular user) and whether alternative architectures have a future or could be better (p2p, more single-user based for instance)?
6. Should lemmy and the fediverse seek to grow with any and all users or seek to stay relatively small and limited to ensure a healthy cutlure?
7. Journalism and journalists … should they be on the fediverse (like the BBC recently with their own mastodon instance) … and if so, how?
8. What are the biggest or proudest moments you’ve had with Lemmy so far, and the worst or most embarrassing?
9. How does it feel to have so many users using and developing against your software?!

Yep … that’s modern capitalistic “enshitification”

Just thought it’d be polite to ask before doing so.

Would you want this promoted on other platforms (basically mastodon), not that that would necessarily garner much more participation?

Ummm … what is going on here? Is this a spat between you and the devs?

Willing to share any numbers? How many communities and how many resources?

That’s awesome. I was wondering just today that lemmy may have already accumulated enough content to provide hits for a number of searches.