My username says it

But I guess it sits at a weird crossroad of "it's all over Instagram" and "most people don't seem to like the taste"

Hi cm0002, if you're ever in need of any help in managing this instance, please let me know. Thank you for taking over!

Community growth can vary depending on available alternatives, discovery, and investment (whether monetary or directly with effort, like I am suggesting). Even Reddit publicly admitted that they created numerous fake accounts operated by a couple of people and created content with them to give readers the impression that the site already has users. What I am suggesting does not align with this of course, but the idea that being intentional about growing our community is a good thing in my opinion.

I agree. I personally believe that the fediverse has talented people who have the potential to create interesting content outside of technology and politics, but they feel discouraged being the only person to post in an otherwise deserted space. I believe that our concentrated effort will encourage these people to come out and contribute.

It is great to hear that communities for this purpose already exist. Do you happen to know the mods there?

I agree on letting people know on reddit and twitter. I added point #5 on that. Thank you!

appreciate your advice and willingness to participate! I agree and will do that.

I agree, and I specifically aim not to make this growth for the sake of growth. It's an effort to increase diversity of content on the fediverse, and quality of communities outside of technology and politics. And we will only pick topics and communities that existing members are interested in improving.

You should see some of the pushback I get for daring to post popculture or feminist news.

Can you please share this with me so I can see this? I may end up running into similar challenges as you, so it would be helpful to foresee them.

The way we get more diverse topics is by gaining a more diverse user base.

I partly agree, and I think this initiative is partly aimed at making the fediverse more attractive to users who are interested in these topics that we will target.

Generally speaking, the existing members are very resistant to any topic outside of technology, politics, and gaming.

I personally have seen a lot of appetite from many users here for topics outside of these. I think the problem is that, those topics tend to be more scattered and there is less consensus. But the beauty of the fediverse, and this reddit-like format we have, is that topic-specific communities can thrive independently and we do not all have to like them.

I may end up being wrong and this ends up being a failed project, but I think it is worth trying. And I am happy and thankful that you are interested despite your skepticism!

Why would it get deleted? You mean by mods?

I think your client could theoretically back up all your posts locally. Should be easy to develop a client that does that. But it's better to get in the habit to store your writings locally anyways. In a notes app or something.

It's important to note that the real disparity may be even far worse.

OCHA-OPT (the committee gathering this data) is strict about verifying validity of Palestinian casualties, requiring two independent, verified and non-affiliated sources. Casualties in Israel, however, they trust the media at face value. They also exclude a lot of Palestinian casualties even when verified in certain situations. Example, and I quote them:

People who were killed or injured in conflict-related incidents that took place in Israel and did not involve residents of the oPt are also excluded.

oPt (occupied Palestinian territories) are the areas that Israel does not directly oversee. So most of Israel is not oPt by their criteria.

Israel is notorious for restricting journalists reporting on Israeli crimes, and has murdered journalists countless of times, like last year the Christian Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh reporting on the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah (so not even in a war zone area). This causes many casualties to go unverified and thus undocumented.

And Israel has been caught lying before about its own casualties, like the 40 beheaded babies.

Take that as you will.

Using the word "genocide" bans you in r/politics now

r/washingtondc locked the post

That is part of why you're not a tech CEO. You're not supposed to have compassion! No investor would want that.

P.S. This is an attack on CEOs and investors, not on you :)

If we keep going back, Israel has committed far too many hostilities that were never responded to. Hell, they bomb syria most weeks without any retaliation form Syria. They commit horrors against west bank citizens all the time.

We're approaching versions of android that are difficult to differentiate from Dragon Ball Z characters.

Piracy is cool, but I prefer to use community-driven software rather than ones driven by corporate profits. I prefer a model where many can contribute to it, fork it, and for which making integrations is much easier thanks to its openness.

Emulator devs should rly do their best to be anonymous

Painting Israel as a victim just for having a small population / geography... I don't know about that. They've committed far too many massscres since their inception to be portrayed like that.

This blog post explains it well:

https://cosmicbyt.es/...

Essentially, containers are means of creating environments in which you can run software, and those environments are:

• isolated, which makes it a very controlled environment. Much harder to run into errors
• reproducible: we have tools that reproduce the same container from an image file
• easy to distribute: just have the container image.
• little to no compromises on performance (at least on Linux)

It is essentially a way for you to run a program without having to worry how to set up the environment, why it didn't work as expected, what dependencies you're missing, etc.

I feel like this should be more about DE choice than distro.