Democrats don’t have until elections to manifest a palpable resistance.

Thanks. Yeah.

And thanks for the content.

I believe you, now.

The font does look very very different in LibreOffice writer, to such an extent, they are practically not the same font:

Confimed in photopea:

Wildly different fonts.

But I’m an AI font, so we still have a problem. :)

Sure about that fam?

AI font.

A haiku:

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

Meh. GoT’s failure burnt me out on most of the actors from that series.

Me too!!

Couplaa twinsies over here

Well you have a well trained corpsman on a sub. At least usually a Sr. Chief or better. I’d trust them as much as any doctor. And if the problem is severe enough, you can always surface and get a helicopter out there. Its rare but it happens.

And if you can’t surface, well… there isn’t anything a doctors going to do for you.

I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.

This is something I think whatever lemmy 2.0 is going to be really needs to focus on.

Just be a content aggregator for ALL of the fediverse. Everything. One feed.

Or maybe more clever ways of integrating. But right now, we’re still relying on video mostly from YT (not peertube) and screenshots of things happening on mastodon. We need more connective tissue.

Its not defeatism. Its a basic understanding of how systems work, which you clearly don’t have. You being obtuse doesn’t change that. You and I can’t change the issue at play. Without scale, lemmy dies. Its not a debate and its killed plenty of projects long before it.

In other words, hope in one hand and shit in the other; see which one fills up first.

Without growing the user base, this project dies. Its not a debate.

How does one catch and eat a peter thiel?

Yeah. Huge improvement and my other account is on piefed.social

Not having it from the beginning though, it helped create this issue in declining usership, which will kill the entire project if we don’t address it.

I’ve lived through the birth growth and death of many former spaces which occupy a similar role as Lemmy. When users start to depart, its almost always destined for catastrophic collapse.

A big part of that is on the design side. We really need the ability to fork/ clone/ merge/ migrate communities across instances. Lemmy was designed to be an “entire” reddit replacement. Because of this, we end up with redundant communities with less activity. Migration of accounts and communities could effectively solve this issue.

Its possibly lemmy could have been designed such that communities of similar type could be aggregated into a single instance. For example, maybe you start a “snowboarding” community on .world, but when a sports focused instance pops up, you might want to migrate your community. A few instances build like this.

The fediverse is not a single amorphous bloc with the same overall goals of growth.

I mean, sure. I guess still people are on Fark. and Digg. And even still posting to Craigslist forums.

And growth is a matter of survival. You don’t grow, you don’t survive.

Sorry, I misspoke. The largest instances of lemmy are have been defederated, specifically world and ml.

The only argument I’m making is that almost all defederation is negatively impactful to fediverse growth.

You are railing about moral issues I don’t even disagree with. But there are basic, physical properties that networks have, that are scale dependent. There is no moralizing around that issue. And de-federation can and does occur all the time, its basically the norm between the major instances. And that has fundamentally crippled the growth of the fediverse (at least the lemmy side).

Just because I’m not bothering putting effort into responding to a slathering wall of text like you’ve composed, does nothing to change the fact that social networks, and actually, all large networked systems from the internet to a fungal colony, all base their survival in scale. I’ve done the work and shared it with those I’ve deemed worthy, here, regarding the network analyses I’ve built to run on the fediverse. Here’s a hint: you aren’t one of those.

Without scale, networked systems collapse. Without scale, complexity can’t emerge.

A big part of this is architectural and we had that discussion years ago here. There are design constraints built into the original envisioning of lemmy that pretty much force these limitations. The biggest issue being that each lemmy instance is built to effectively be an “entire clone” of a reddit like system. The second is activity pub related, in that users can not “migrate” their accounts or community’s to new instance, neither can we fork, clone, or merge a community.

The result is that we end up with duplicated communities, balkanized content, and an overall reduction in activity, which further suppress growth. There is no disagreement that the de-federation issue contributed directly to Lemmy’s decline. We were all here for it.

Yes. And its been detrimental to the growth of the fediverse.

The math that underpins large networked systems isn’t something you can disagree with. Smaller in those kinds of systems are always less sustainable. Instance level moderation choices like defederation have directly contributed to the balkanization (you can agree or disagree with if it’s a good thing to do so; the preference make no difference) of the Lemmy chunk of the fediverse.

Smaller, less networked systems are more unstable and less sustainable. Period.