any fediverse account will work. Itll allow you to log in when it opens
nameservers and some of the access to the servers got messed up. Server couldnt see anything outside of programming.dev due to the nameserver not working
Waste of a second and third choice since then I cant ranked choice it. The second choice doesnt count until the first choice is eliminated
Theres a lot more users that dont even vote as well
For programming.dev currently we have~ 1.2k MAU. Including people who have an account but dont vote or comment we get closer to 2k. And then including people who dont have an account we get much higher (~ 80k per day but that includes crawlers and bots)
We switched up how we handle communities a couple times. We didnt start expanding horizontally until the main communities seemed stable and had some good activity (community creation was open publicly starting last month and before that there was the request zone). The posting activity is the same as it was in the previous systems, people just dont want to post and theres the 10% of people comment, 1% of people are posters rule (if its 5-6 posts per hour thats better than the past system as well)
The ones that are visible in new communities are empty mostly because they were just made (~ 100 coms made in the last month). The ones made by me and that are now handled by the vacant account are ones that have sources I can add to my rss reader and then post consistently. For example the elm community has weekly posts on things going on in the ecosystem. This means they wont be dead and should have a solid stream of posts as it builds up active users. Theyre made so they can start collecting people and subs over time rather than attempt to diverge and have nobody know to move over or people not joining at all since they looked for the language by name and didnt find anything (and then I assume people dont want misc changelogs of bug fixes posted to c/programming as well)
The most commonly used sorts in the instance are subscribed sort and local sort. If something is posted in one of the smaller communities people will interact with it in local sort. Crossposting is also highly recommended. I can maybe somehow make that more apparent than it already is
Reports are typically fine. Theres a couple issues with 0.18 but the amount of people reporting would make up for that. Removed it locally from my instance since some reports came to me fine
I assume it will be snapped soon by lemm.ee or world but its around midnight in the US right now and early morning in europe
the issue is there isnt such thing as an instance-only community
if you mimic the actions I did above but on the community level rather than the post level you might be able to do it but new instances pulling the community for federation after you did it wouldnt be affected by that so you would need to seed it in the instances ahead of time or keep doing it
a second way would be reaching out to other admins to remove the community from their instance but that involves talking to a ton of different instances
Hey, im actually doing a post right now with some screenshots. Should be up in a bit on meta
(was also the one that purged the conversation. things should still be in the modlog if youre interested in digging around for it)
Currently supports any instance running a lemmy compatible api (lemmy, pangora, etc.)
Lets you generate and then copy shields.io style badges to show different stats exposed by the api
For example for this community I can generate badges such as
Subscribers
Monthly Active Users
etc.
Theres a system built in that lets you customize how they look and then generate them again with those looks. Supports badges for instances, communities, or users
Link again just in case your software doesnt handle the first one
AoC has ended for the year! Congrats to everyone who participated
Here are some stats from the instance leaderboard
Ill start off with my choice. Been teaching myself rust recently so I can mess around with the lemmy backend so will likely attempt it using rust to practice it a bit more
Lemmy itself needs JS to work, wouldnt make sense to limit myself to not using it when the sites im sending people to dont have that restriction. Whats the bloat youre talking about, I can look at it
The blue face is the godot logo! It's an open source game engine
yeah pretty much exactly that. It's custom built 100% by our team with no external tools or anything (just a way to notify us using apis). it's technically a separate running code since we can't hook it into the base lemmy code that easily but acts the same way