I don't doubt there's a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.

Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.

Agreed. Lots of discussion is still naturally around API pricing etc., but more fundamental is the fact that all of that user/mod-provided community is seen solely as an asset for the company to sell. The actual humans be damned.

it’s the scrawny-ass CEO

CEO aside, I reckon you could replace spez with any other exec chosen by the board and eventually this sort of business decision would be made. The mix of private ownership and profit motive suffices, I think.

I had to look this up because I thought it was fake.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

I wonder this too, but I'm coming to believe that as long as investors are throwing money at housing and people need it, it might not burst. With enough wealth concentration, maybe it just all gets progressively bought up and rented out at insane prices, with growth coming from speculation among massive institutional investors.

But I haven't really thought of this deeply or looked into whether it's sound.

You can find an option not to hide NSFW content in your profile settings!

If you sort by New on All you're guaranteed to come across porn.

Nah, I think they're just being mass-created. No one's actually spamming anything so far. You can see so on this directory of instances: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

If you scroll around you'll find some that have like 10k or 20k users and 11 posts at most.

God, I won't miss that though.

I agree, based on these statistics. Prior to the obvious jump in bot-farmed accounts, there were about 162000 active users with an active user proportion of about 0.186 (somewhere around >29000 active users).

Now there are 649k lemmy users and an active user proportion of 0.055 (~35600 according to the dashboard). If we assume those 35600 users represent the pre-bot-farming ratio of 0.186, we get 35600/0.186 or about just over 191000.

That's still an increase of probably 30k true users, unless the proportion of lurkers have also suddenly drastically increased. I don't think that's true, because, pre-bot-farming, when the user base started growing with the Reddit debacle, the proportion of active users increased accordingly. I assume that's because new users are excited to help grow the community.

Still, in the past two days alone active users went up by over 5k (15%). Maybe that'll continue exponentially, and there'll be 95k (500k total non-bot) users two weeks from now, or maybe it'll continue linearly and there'll be 70k (~385k) users.

I don't know why I spent so long thinking about this.

But certainly the proposed defederation isn't the same as suppressing utterance, considering there would remain a publicly accessible instance for that speech. This would be closer to keeping in check by public opinion, since it's the action of exterior social forces.

Got an XPS 13 9350, works fine, bluetooth and all, though I upgraded Ubuntu and the kernel and the integrated webcam hasn't worked since, which I still don't really understand.

Indeed. People almost invariably conflate capitalism with free markets, whereas those relatively independent properties.

It works just the same as the web site! You can search or browse/scroll through local communities, subbed ones, or "all" (from all federated instances that are subbed to by anyone on your instance if I understand correctly).

I've been thinking of hosting my own instance for myself, but I was wondering if you'd noticed any oddities! I've heard of some bugs that occur when interacting cross-instance. Also stuff about content being out of sync, which I notice currently with lemmy.ml from my current instance (lemmy.world).

Ha! :D Honored to be the inaugurating post of that community

I really like Japanese with Shun (on Spotify, I don't know about other platforms?) and also Comprehensible Japanese (here on youtube) which has lots of free content, also a dedicated site with extra material for Patreon supporters.

Shun's good cause he speaks slow enough without being annoying, and enunciates quite well.

Basically the same for Comprehensible Japanese! Though these are extra nice since there's an extra modality (namely video) which she uses so that you can continue listening with context.

Tu as le droit de refuser en toute situation à l'intérieur de 30 jours de réception du nouveau bail, je crois bien. Le bail sera donc renouvelé au même loyer et le proprio devra aller au TAL pour argumenter l'augmentation.

Quelle connerie. On peut bien y faire quelque chose, non? Ça commence à faire cruel, là.

Can't overstate how psyched I am for this T_T

Watch out for deleted posts reappearing! I read about that last night, and this morning a 4 year old comment reappeared (a week after I'd deleted everything).

Apparently it might have something to do with subreddits being locked when you run a deletion tool, then unlocking afterwards.

Google en passant