I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is “clusterfuck”.

I can’t believe the old cold war fears of a Russian invasion of Sweden are actually coming true. Thanks, America. Fucking hell.

I mean… maybe? Those are nice things of course, but if I wanted to start using an alternative to TikTok I would never consider something without an algorithm. The whole point - for me at least - is to waste time eating digital slop served to you by an algorithm so that you don’t have to know what you want to watch when you sit down and open it up. If I already knew what I wanted to watch I wouldn’t be on an app like this, I’d be searching up the video or subject on another platform.

Completely agreed, and it’s one of the things keeping me off Mastodon honestly. I don’t have a close group of friends on it, and for the purposes of following a bunch of strangers/outlets and whatnot I want a better sorting algorithm to actually show me interesting posts when I check in the morning.

I’d be interested in that one too.

Well, as mentioned that is also covered by the Monthly Active Users metric that already is available. But in addition to that, I think it would be interesting to see the number of users who read and vote but don’t post or comment. Even though posting and commenting is the biggest part, actively voting is still an important part of the ecosystem.

I find the terminology of Kbin confusing and it’s one of the things putting me off it, personally. I don’t think referring to a shitposted meme as an “article in a magazine” makes a whole lot of sense, and from an onboarding perspective it seems more intuitive to work with familiar terms like “community” and “post”. Especially with the microblogging integration: if you want to make a thread somewhere you have to click “create article” because “create post” will have you make a microblog instead.

Are they still calling communities “magazines”?

I can see the arguments for both, to be honest. Ideally I’d like to be able to see statistics for both. Active Users and Active Contributors?

Loving these development updates and it looks like you’re making good progress, I really appreciate all the work that you guys do. ❤️

I had a look at the join-lemmy redesign too, and it looks slick, much better than before.

Fedifish sounds the best out of the given options I think.

Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.

Important to remember that Lemmy only counts posting and commenting as “Active Users”, not voting. So you’ll have many users moving over who were primarily lurkers who maybe made a comment or two on Lemmy just when they switched and have now gone on to lurk here.

I wouldn’t call myself a “regular poster” but I was making an effort to try putting some stuff on !superautopets@lemmy.world before BG3 started monopolizing my attention.

Lemmy.sdf.org is another general instance I’d recommend. It’s run by the Public Access Unix non-profit org.

Adding this as an issue on the Lemmy GitHub would be a great idea.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

Did you advertise it on the New Communities community?

Yeah, this is exactly it. Though I think it can be worked around/automated. This tool did it: https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

The Fediverse population seems generally quite hostile towards algorithms, but i would love something like that. Discoverability is a huge issue on Lemmy right now. Apart from searching on lemmyverse.net/communities, we basically only have !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl