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Vicinus

@ Vicinus @piefed.zip

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  • PieFed 1.7.9 includes Anubis-like scraper blocking

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  • This is great. Thanks for your work.

    Is there anyway this work can be easily adopted for other fediverse software? I know Writefreely is having a huge issue with bots (not necessarily scraping, though maybe that too), but I figure they could use all the help they can get.

  • How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?

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

  • How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?

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  • 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.

  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • That's very kind. Thank you :)

  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • !fedilytics@piefed.zip (alt. link: Fedilytics) got its first non-me poster this week and it looks like the user is going to post to the community again, in the future. Also, talked to someone, who's posts I cross-post into the community, and they offered to post the content to the community themselves, so that's a nice gain.

    So, potentially gained 2 non-me posters in a week. I'm happy with that growth :)

    Edit: added alt. link.

  • Community Growth (26/7/31)

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  • Sounds good. Thanks :)

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260802)

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  • I was considering removing Writefreely from the tables starting next week, but with your prompt, I just updated today's as well. You should be good to go, but let me know if you're interested in any other data/arrangements.

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260802)

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  • I can imagine how hard making the chart easy to understand is going to be. Good luck and I look forward to seeing the new version :)

    I think I flagged that (mbin.level5.dev) instance for review previously, but I just flagged it again for the fediverse-observe dev.

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260802)

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  • Definitely. If we remove writefreely's bot problem, it looks like the fediverse grew 5 ~4% each month for at least the last 3 months :)

    Edit: changed "5" to "~4"%

  • PyLova @quokk.au
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    Expand the Codeberg Readme

  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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  • Community Growth (26/7/31)

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  • I really like these posts. They're one of the main ways I find new, interesting communities.

    Yeah, if you're willing to, it would be great if you posted to this community :)

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    Community Growth (26/7/31)

  • What are some of your favourite niche or hobby-based Lemmy instances, and which ones should be avoided at all costs?

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  • 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%]).

  • What are some of your favourite niche or hobby-based Lemmy instances, and which ones should be avoided at all costs?

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  • 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).

  • What are some of your favourite niche or hobby-based Lemmy instances, and which ones should be avoided at all costs?

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  • 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:

    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.

  • How do you handle elevated areas in maps?

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  • From a quick look at elevation maps, your options seem to be colors and/or lines. So, not a bundle of options.

    As an alternative, maybe a light shading based on elevation? I'm not sure if that would look good or not though...

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260726)

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  • It does seem like there was a die off, after an introduction/hype peak (introduction: 2022-11, local/previous maximum: 2024-08, new maximum: this month).

    I don't follow the software closely so tough for me to say why they are growing so fast.

    I think it might have been partially an activity bug (like piefed). Checking through some writefreely servers, it seems they had negligible activity until June and then they exploded.

    But the biggest server (paper.wf) had regular users and user growth. Then user growth exploded in July (~2.5x).

    So possibly a combination of factors.

  • Bugfix for my OS (D.eSystem 6.0.9)

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  • 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 :)

  • How has the voting quota impacted power users and content creation?

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  • I'm not replying to Rimu's comment, because I don't want to get into it with him again, but the graph he posted can't be used as evidence of anything. The data isn't normalized to activity (posts, comments, voting).

    If half the people left after the 1.7 implementation, you'd also see a drop in network activity. Based on our (Rimu and I's) previous discussion, there was a significant drop in activity (comments and posts) at that time (I don't have data on votes so can't confidently state they dropped too during that time, but I would be surprised if they didn't correlate with the posts and comments.

    As one of the other commentors said, pugjesus left, which I think, was unfortunate but understandable. I was considering leaving, but .zip removed the limit and I believe several other instances did as well.

  • Growth of the Instances (20260728)

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  • Good to know. I always wondered why it had a significantly different version number than everyone else.

    I'm going to keep them in the Piefed category for now. If there becomes a big schism, with enough servers running forks, I may readdress the structure.

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • I think it’s for the best that Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and NSFW instances get defederated by as many instances as possible (users who want that specific content can sign up to those specific instances for it, while allowing the rest of the Threadiverse to more easily attract new users), but beyond that defederation should be reserved as a tool of last resort to avoid fracturing the Threadiverse further.

    Yeah, I think a less culture-shocking introduction would help increase retention. The new W3C migration proposal, that was posted today, might help in reducing the sunk-cost in remaining with a specific instance, in the future.

    Gladly; I’ll probably update the graph with a lower MAU threshold and any federation corrections that may be needed, and I’ll crosspost that too when it’s ready.

    Looking forward to it :)

    Note: looks like your downvote came from someone who posts to hexbear. I imagine they took issue with your want to migrate users/communities out of the ML instances. They weren't "serial" and only downvoted the one comment, so I don't think they're problematic.

  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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    Growth of the Instances (20260728)

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    Growth of the Fediverse (20260726)

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    Growth of the Instances (20260725)

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    Community Growth (26/7/24)

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    Growth of the Fediverse (20260720)

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    Community Growth (26/7/17)

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    Growth of the Instances (20260714)

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    Growth of the Fediverse (20260713)

  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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    Community Growth (26/7/10)

  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ca
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    I used Linux on a phone for 30 days, here's why I'm sticking with it, and why you likely won't!

    tilvids.com /videos/watch/976a535d-6f0e-4ae6-9d9f-e1010b35dc6b
  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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    Growth of the Instances (20260707)

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    Growth of the Fediverse (20260705)

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    Community Growth (26/7/3)

  • Servo Browser Engine @programming.dev
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    May in Servo: user scripts, mp4 compat, blackboxing in DevTools, and more!

    servo.org /blog/2026/06/30/may-in-servo/
  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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    Growth of the Instances (20260630)

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    Growth of the Fediverse (20260628)

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    Community Growth (26/6/26)