• Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    13 days ago

    I’m happy to see almost 50,000 users. Sometimes it feels like there’s ten of us.

    • someacnt_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Tbh I want this to be 500k users and no more. That would be enough for most of my interests.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Thats because America alone has something like 3.5 BILLION people in it. Ohio alone has 11 million citizens. I assure you 95% of ohio is farms and cows, and we STILL have 11 million. Sometimes I wonder if they include the cows in that number.

      My point is, 50k in scale to how big the internet is (and thats just America…the internet is the world. Except for north korea).

      So, 50k is not really a lot. Especially when you consider that this userbase is fragmented by design.

      I feel like this is the smarter design for this type of format. I also feel like this format could be so much more than it is. And it’s because this format relies on the idea that you have to please everyone. Otherwise they’ll defederate.

      Well when I was 7 years old there was a girl at school who didn’t like me. My great aunt edna asked what the other kids thought of me. They liked me ok. I had some friends. It was just her that actively disliked me. So my great aunt edna says some advice that has stood the test of time. She told me “In life, not everyone is going to like you. The only thing you can do is be yourself, make sure they don’t dislike you because you’re being a problem, and then surround yourself with people who DO like you. Let the others dislike you. As long as you’re not being a problem child, you can only stay true to yourself, and likeminded friends will follow.”

      And even though she said this in the 80s, and has been dead for decades, her words speak true in my 40s today. Essentially the modern version would be “haters gonna hate”.

      So if there’s 50k users, and they’re segregating into their own spaces, it’s going to feel more like 1000 users. And now take into account time zones, and individual schedules, it’ll feel more like 200 users.

    • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      Especially when you see the same couple of people with profile pics post everywhere.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    57·
    13 days ago

    Discuit is not a federated social platform, and we do not plan to support federation in the future either. This is because we do not believe that federated platforms, for a few specific reasons, have a chance of becoming mainstream social platforms one day.

    Cringe

        • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          10·
          12 days ago

          IMAP/POP3/SMTP are protocols, ActivityPub is a protocol too.

          Are you pointing to something else?

          • sour@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            12 days ago

            Yeah, they are talking about platforms, not protocols.

            Lemmy.world is the platform. Or mastodon.social. Or Gmail. Or Outlook.

            • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
              9·
              12 days ago

              I’m really not sure what point you are trying to make.

              Would I have said “Guess they never heard about Gmail and Outlook being federated”, would that have been better according to you?

              • sour@feddit.deEnglish
                1·
                12 days ago

                My point is that you can’t compare a platform like reddit to a protocol like email.

                While gmail and outlook are insanely big, how much of all email traffic do they handle? Sure, they are insanely big, but I doubt they are above 50%

                On the other hand, how big is reddit compared to all other link aggregators? I think it’s pretty surely far above 50%.

                Or how big is YouTube as a VOD platform?

                I’m not advocating for discuit, but being like “they think federation can’t build a mainstream platform, but look at email” is kind of missing the point.

                Also email is the only example for federation. It’s an outlier, mainly because it was one of the first things on the net. Everything else is platforms, unfortunately.

  • folshost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    Almost as many as there are in the colonial fleet in Battlestar Galactica. So does that mean we can expect that the colonial fleet had someone as prolific at shitposting as The_Picard_Maneuver? That’s encouraging to know if so

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      English
      3·
      13 days ago

      There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.