Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they're less tightly bound than they were before. It's up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they've looked at to get them to shift their usage.
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
I like it daily. It feels more journalesque. Plus, the reddit-like nature of Lemmy means a weekly thread would be buried in my feed after the first day and never surface again for me to chime in on.
Today, I went to the gym for the second day in a row. I've been jogging, trying to improve my (awful) cardio. My current goal is 10 laps of the track every time I go, and today was the first day that I managed to do a set of 5 laps without breaking. My soleus muscles were screaming at me, but I managed to pull off 2x5 today. Really hoping I can carry this forward and work up to 1x10 by end the end of February.
For the rest of the day, I'm going to be tinkering around with nodeBB. See if I can get it set up and federating. Not going to push myself, though. I just did a total refresh on my VPS, and none of the lessons I learned during my first setup have stuck, so I'm starting over from scratch. Really looking forward to viewing the fediverse through the lens of a traditional forum, though. I'm so incredibly over the Reddit and Twitter view of the Internet.
The onboarding process is just as simple as anywhere else, so long as you point them to a website to use. We have to stop telling people to "join Mastodon" or "join Lemmy". That's like telling them to just "join social media".
The rough edge there is in communicating, and this weird desire ignore that this is 1000 websites, not just one.
Well, in that, and in finding off-site content to follow
Win a trade war, then wait for his mind to drift to fanboying for dictators for life, just like last time.
Two months? Jesus, two months was 18 months ago
"It came like a bolt from the blue," Douglas Porter, chief economist of the Bank of Montreal (BMO), told DW, referring to Trump's attack. "There was no groundswell among his supporters that saw Canada as a big villain ... so I find this one a bit more unnerving."
I remain utterly befuddled by all of these apparently well credentialed people's inability to recognize patterns, or what happens when you let the spoiled brat's tantrums work.
Trump did this last time so he could throw out NAFTA and slap his name on the new deal. He's doing it this time because it worked last time, and he thinks he can extort us. There's nothing "out of the blue" about it this time around.
This is expected behaviour.
As much as I enjoy Wilhoit's Law, it always gets leveraged in a way that pointed at supporters of particular political parties.
The thing is, Wilhoit uses a fundamentally different definition of "conservstive" from what most people mean. He's not pointing out the MO of a given political party in that quote. He's criticising the very nature of the state, and of a stratified society.
Which is fair. It's just not the kind of thing you pull out to thumb your nose at political opponents.
The whole comment, for reference:
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.
There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.
There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.
As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.
No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:
The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
Can I recommend organized things like an art class, cooking class, recreational sport league, etc? They have this really great benefit of having a consistent and per-arranged schedule, and interpersonal interactions with a pre-established purpose.
I joined an intro rec softball league a few years ago, and have branched into things like karate lessons. They've been surprisingly good environments to just engage as much or as little as I want/need. Plus, they help overcome my inertia and actually move around some.
My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?
Things don't really federate out with ActivityPub, they federate in. To receive off-site content, you have to subscribe to it.
Who is going to subscribe to a Threads ad bot?
Imagine going to a public class on... let's say playing the electric guitar, and the instructor just keeps going on and on about tuning forks, gear maintenance, and music theory. You were just hoping to learn how to play Stairway to Heaven, despite never having touched a guitar in your life.
The telescope is actually a hurdle to most people who will ever look through one. Introducing people to amateur astronomy by talking about making the sausage doesn't whet the appetite. It's dry, it's small, and it's boring. And it's not relevant to 90% of people who will ever show up -- they're not going to race out and spend hundreds of dollars on a worthwhile telescope. It's the kind of thing you talk about once people are hooked, want to view things independently, and are actually ready to invest their time, energy, and money into the hobby.
Amateur astronomy happens first in the mind. The imagination is accessible; the nitty gritty of operating a manual telescope is actually quite exclusionary, and fails to meet people where they actually are.
No. The website you're using doesn't share them, and possibly doesn't even track them. They don't support downvotes, full stop.
There's no Platonic "Lemmy" for you to see or access. There's 1000 different Lemmys, as each Lemmy-based website on the network is it's own thing, hosting both local content and remote content that is syndicated to it. You can only see what's hosted and surfaced on the website you're using.
You may as well be asking if there's any other way of seeing Instagram posts on Twitter.
EKOS is the only polling group showing momentum for the Liberals, and I'm really scratching my head over why that might be. They don't traditionally have an overwhelming bias like this. They also are showing an exceptionally clear, almost linear rise in the polls from the point of Trudeau's resignation, while no one else is showing any kind of pattern other than "dismal holding pattern".
I want to believe that EKOS knows something that nobody else does, but because of that I need to guard myself from getting excited.