I wasn’t affected by this directly, but from what I saw it was all handled extremely well - lots of notice so users could choose new instances and mods could coordinate moving communities elsewhere. Makes me optimistic for the fediverse.

The term I’ve heard is Threadiverse (i.e. Fediverse with threaded discussions), but that was coined before Threads launched so it’s a little awkward now.

Dang, I should try these things out.

(joking)

• Be part of a murder

I watched this as a kid! I didn’t expect anyone else to know it existed lol.

This sounds like an onion headline.

Mastodon

I’ve been wondering about that - the Misskey numbers are very weird, with MAU even lower than the number of new users that join in an average month. But this is a good explanation, thanks. It’s just too bad there’s not a good way to get MAU for them.

I dunno, I only follow capybarabot.

If you look at monthly active users instead of total users, Pixelfed is a strong 2nd place.

Just one?

That’s because you didn’t go back in time yet, silly.

This is looking at total users, but I think monthly active users would be a better stat to use here. Lemmy has about 3 times the MAU of Misskey.

Edit: Also worth noting that Pixelfed has close to 3 times Lemmy’s MAU now.

“I tried making a self deprecating joke but it just elicited more laughter” what

Yep. That’s one reason I like the instance I’m on - I can basically see everything, and just block the stuff I don’t want to see.

Yeah, it sounds much worse out of context.

Here’s the full quote, from this transcript, for anyone interested:

Mark: Yeah, so I think that that’s quite possible. And I do think that there is this cycle that goes on where, you know, within a society, it’s not just the government that has power. There are certain people who, in these culturally elite positions— and, you know, journalists, TV news anchors— who are the people who people broadly trust? They’re not all in government. A lot of people in other positions— it’s like, who are the people that people look to?

I think that basically it needs to shift for the internet age. And I think a lot of the people who people looked to before, they’re kind of realizing, hey, they weren’t super honest about a lot of these issues that we faced. And I think that’s partially why social media isn’t a monolithic thing. It’s not that people trust Facebook or X; they trust the creators and the voices that they feel like are being authentic and giving them valuable information on there. So there’s, I think, going to be just this whole new class of creators who basically become the new cultural elites that people look at and say, “Okay, these are the people who give it to me straight.” And I think that that’s— that’s a thing that is— maybe it’s possible because of social media. I think it’s also just the internet more broadly. I think podcasting is obviously a huge and important part of that, too.

I mean, I don’t know to what extent you feel like you got to be large because of social media, or just because it’s the podcasting platforms that you used, but I think that this is a very big sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter. And what we do is we try to build a platform that gives people a voice, but there’s this wholesale generational shift in who are the people who are being listened to. And I think that that’s a very fascinating thing that is going on, because I think that’s what’s going on here. It’s not just the government and people saying, “Hey, we want a very big change here.” I think it’s just a wholesale shift in saying, we just want different people who we actually trust, who are actually going to tell us the truth, and not give us the bullshit opinions that you’re supposed to say, but like the type of stuff that I would actually— when I’m sitting in my living room with my friends, the stuff that we know is true. Who are the people who have the courage to actually just say that stuff? I don’t know. I think that whole cultural elite class needs to get repopulated with people who people actually trust.

Happy 2024 everybody!

You could try the “Steam library filters” site someone created here: https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/

This lets you include or exclude tags, plus a bunch of other filter and sorting options.

Basically the start of Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect