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You’d think it’s straightforward and additive. I added up all their listed instances for a couple different softwares. The math was wrong and overestimated the MAU count. I checked it a few times across a couple weeks. Couldn’t quickly figure out a pattern to how the math was wrong each time.

Maybe they fixed it in the last ~6 months, but I wouldn’t count on it. I believe it’s the same Dev as pixelfed and loops. So, not sure they’ve done any work on fedidb in years (to my knowledge, they’ve focused on Loops and Pixelfed).

Edit: to clarify, adding the MAU of all their listed instances for a particular software was lower than the total MAU they reported for the software.

Yeah. I saw the dead website earlier today and have been trying to figure out how to keep the posts working.

The fediverse software post, I could rewrite some code to gather fedidb daily (to my knowledge, they don’t have all time series data available), but their MAU math is suspect. So, not a great option, but my only other thought is basically remaking fediverse-observer and I do not have a server or potentially relevant server skill set beyond cron jobs.

For the threadiverse instances post, I can keep gathering data from the instances I already have in my database, but don’t really have another way to find new ones. Maybe, I could see if I could scrape it from fedidb (I couldn’t get their API working in the past).

In conclusion, the posts are not in a good place :(

I think Port87 may be what you are looking for.

“Sharing a different address with every app or service keeps them from tracking you. If a company leaks your email, you can easily change a label’s address and block the address that was leaked, preventing spammers from reaching you.”

I don’t think there are any trackers or data collection. The developer/owner of the company is on the threadiverse (@hperrin@lemmy.ca) and their is a !port87@lemmy.ca community. Perhaps they can confirm. @hperrin@lemmy.ca?

It has a free tier, but that tier only allows you to receive email, not send. Cheapest sending email account is $0.99/month.

You said you don’t care about the country, but for completeness, their contact info has a San Marcos, CA, USA address.

I use it and really like the “sub-emails” I can make for each type of email or per company.

If you are willing to provide the area/industry you are interested, we maybe able to direct you better. I don’t know of any (general or specific) communities off the top of my head, but there was just a post about getting ideas for new communities.

Assuming there is not already a community that fits your purposes, can you provide some more details on what you want to get out of community? “Help and networking” is a bit vague to work with.

Additionally, would you be interested in starting and modding such a community? No pressure/expectation either way, just gathering potentially useful information.

Maybe check out NodeBB. My recollection is that it’s a federated server software for forums that can interface with at least Mastodon and Piefed (probably Lemmy and Mbin too).

I believe I’ve seen some content from a forum in the past, but it’s tough to tell, as I think they just show up the same as any other threadiverse instance (a post in a community on an instance).

I’m not sure how you’d search for them though…

You might be interested in the Pylova Piefed fork. It’s from the contributor that this post about Rimu deleting the other side of the story is from (Quokka).

I haven’t had many interactions with either of them (Rimu and Quokka), but if I had guess which is the problematic one in a situation is, I’d guess Rimu.

Yeah, it definitely feels, to me, like the current world/society is built to be competitive rather than cooperative :(

I would suggest a few things. First, be genuinely open minded to the discussion/topic (as in your opinion can change with a good enough argument.

Second, I would suggest using “feeling” language as much as possible. Examples are: “I feel like that will cause an issue with…”, “my understanding is…”, “my thoughts are…”, “from what I’ve seen/read the setup is …”, etc. From my perspective, feeling language lowers the “absoluteness” of statements and makes conversions easier by changing them from arguing absolute truths, to discussing lived experiences.

Third would be to reframe the discussion/argument from “you vs them” to the two of you vs a problem/issue and you both are working together to find the answer. This somewhat goes with being open minded.

Fourth, I don’t think works too well in online discussions, but in person I find starting from a base situation and asking the other person their thoughts on it, and adding your own, works well. So, start with a base situation and then adding a little complexity each time you both agree on the outcome and reasoning. Once you’ve found your divergence point you can start having your discussion about the pros/cons of different approaches/solutions to that specific situation.

My understanding, using the federation-email analogy, defederation is like yahoo mail and gmail users not being able to send and receive emails from each other. In this case lemmy.world and lemmy.ml can’t see each others users/communities/posts/comments/votes (someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about any part).

Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz just made a post about instance defederations. TL:DR of the post is only 3 instances/servers have any significant defederation (>5%). 2 “tankie” instances (lemmygrad.ml [67%] and hexbear.net [64%]) and the porn instance (fedinsfw.app [13%]).

No worries :)

• Not sure we have a Hobbydrama, but it’s also not my interest, so I could have blocked it.
• Cursedcrochet looks fun. We have an active knitting community, but probably not enough activity/users for a specific “cursedcrochet” community at this point. Also have a semi-active leatherwork community, if that’s of interest.
• Wunkus seems great. I think the closest match we may have would be Scrungy Cats, but there could be communities I don’t know about.
• Also, in a different comment someone mentioned the solarpunk communities (basically anything on the slrpnk.net instance), I’m a big fan of those, and think they’re worth checking out.

The threadiverse (roughly the reddit-like part of the fediverse) is pretty small (~43k MAU), so if something doesn’t exist and you want it to, your probably going to have to start and build it yourself.

I was kind of off-put by that initially, but I kind of like it now. It’s kind of like building your own little space and people can come check it out and see what you’ve been building and contribute if they feel like it. I created fedilytics (Fediverse-Analytics) a couple months ago because I was curious how the fediverse was doing. It’s not particularly active with other people (got first non-me post yesterday!), but I mostly built it for myself and enjoy anytime someone stops in to talk in the comments.

If you do decide to make a community in the future, I’d suggest making the post in the community and then cross-posting it, to a larger relevant community, to increase traffic to your post (as many people just stick to their subscribed feed).

If you provide some of your interests/hobbies, we can probably be more helpful.

That being said, I think these are a few active and interesting communities:

• Superb Owl
• Linux Phones
• Gardening

Regarding places to avoid, I don’t think anyplace needs to be avoided, per say. Politics can be problematic, if you go into those posts.

There’s no real algorithm, so you need to curate your own feed. In general, I’d suggest, if you see a community that could interest you, just subscribe. You can always unsubscribe later (if it turns out not to be what you want), but getting a denser “good stuff” home feed is beneficial.

By the same token, I’d suggest blocking communities you have zero interest in (helps filtering, so you come across more content you are interested in when browsing “All”). If you run into a problematic user, report (if they have done something reportable), block, and move on.

If 2 communities are posting the same content and you get tired of seeing double, I’d suggest removing the community from the bigger or flagship instance (ex. Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Piefed.Social).

This would have the effect of distributing the communities across the threadiverse rather than having them bunch up on a few. A problem with bunching can be if an instance goes down, they take their users/communities with them. Most of the medium/large instances in the threadiverse are stable, but it has happened in the past (Lemm.ee).

My understanding is this should be much less of a problem in the future, they are working on making user profiles and communities transferable between instances/servers.

Note: there is an active autism community, if that’s of interest to you.

I couldn’t find the usecase/goal/purpose of the software in your github. Might be worth making it more prominent to increase adoption.

Glad you were able to find and fix your bug though :)

That’s strange behavior.

Are all the other “views” working correctly (local, subscribed, all)?

Apparently I like War, Mystery, and Comedy. List:

• Andor: Is great, even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan. Each 3 episode arc is better than the last. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they made a Season 2 and Season 2 is better. You can use Rogue One as a cap to the series.

• Veronica Mars: watched all of it for the first time this year. It holds up 20+ years later.

• Ted Lasso: Comedy about a college American Football coach coaching English Football/soccer.

• The Good Place: Strangely a philosophy heavy comedy. It slows in places, but is absolutely worth watching.

• Schmitt’s Creek: Comedy about unlikeable rich people becoming poor. It takes a bit to start, but each season is better than the last and nails the landing.

Possibles:

• Altered Carbon (Season 1): Great murder mystery set in a cyberpunk, dystopian future.

• Shogun: Medieval Japan samurai “game of thrones”-esk show. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they are making a Season 2.

• Band of Brothers: War show about American rangers in WW2.

Haha. Yeah, I should pay more attention. Thanks for explaining it slowly for me :)

Didn’t .World defederate from .ml?

OP can you see any .world communities or posts?

I’m subscribed to it, so I don’t think that’s the issue. But interesting that it is federating to other instances.

Already exists and works (or at least did work). Check out: !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

That channel was posting to the threadiverse up until a month ago. There are newer videos on it’s peertube channel, so not sure what happened, but it was working.

Edit: fixed community name/link.

My understanding of the political landscape of specific instances is:

• Neo-liberal: Lemmy.world, Piefed.social (maybe)
• Marx-Leninist (ML): Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net
• Anarchist: Lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus

Everything else is pretty unaligned. However, ~50% of users are on those instances.

That was an interesting read. I’ve been against personal assistants/smarthome/etc., but your comment might have brought me around. Thank you for sharing your setup.