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I joined when you had under 1000 users total, now there are 1.3k online at this very moment. I can imagine it’s quite a strain!

It was pretty surprising to read their first update that had it at $12 a month! Though my server is running on a $2 a month VPS (currently) and doing pretty well so when you don’t have too many users it doesn’t cost an awful lot to run (so long as your technical people are donating their time!)

There’s a financials post here: https://beehaw.org/post/416496

And near the bottom of this page you can see the donations made, the money actually spent, and their current balance: https://opencollective.com/beehaw

I wish I’d known about Beehaw earlier, though before this influx it seems there wasn’t a huge amount of content as the community was pretty small.

I have known about Lemmy for some time, but the more popular instances were basically filled with people who had been kicked off reddit for their views. It was not a welcoming place, so until now I hadn’t felt comfortable hanging around.

Are they not? The donation page says “This Collective’s Fiscal Host is a registered 501©(3) non-profit organization. Your contribution will be tax-deductible in the US, to the extent allowed by the law.”

I presumed this was based on the umbrella you were accepted under to be on opencollective?

No luck :(

I… can’t see anywhere where they are complaining? This was just a post about how much the server cost to run. They updated it over time with new numbers as they beefed up the server capacity. But the post basically says “Here’s how much it costs to run, and we have plenty of money”. I don’t see the complaining?

Represent! Love being a part of history. I’ll tell my kids about this some day.

Somehow “the first rule of reddit” got forgotten, and suddenly everyone knew about it. That’s about when it went downhill.

Oh I should have said, the oldest is 6. They have no idea what the song is, but they want me to play it for them… they don’t know what tiktok is.

Reading and responding to people and posts is contributing, and I would argue more important than starting new posts.

Yes! It’s who you ask when you aren’t sure what the idea, concept, or term is. Once you are armed with that information, use a proper search engine.

It helps to understand what ChatGPT is, and what it isn’t.

ChatGPT does not understand anything you say. And it only does one word (technically part of a word, but to keep it simple) at a time.

What it’s doing is it is guessing the most likely next word based on the words that have come before it. If you think of you phone’s keyboard, it probably has word suggestions for what to say next. ChatGPT is like hitting the recommended word over and over until it has an answer. It’s spouting words based on how likely the word is to come next. That is all.

It uses advanced machine learning to do that, but whether it counts as AI is for the reader to decide. But it’s certainly not planning out a thoughtful answer for you.

And that’s not even taking into account that the training data largely comes from the internet, the place where people continuously make shit up.

Does the Lemmy license prevent corporations running nodes? In fact, it doesn’t even have to be Lemmy.

If you think about email, it’s widespread and used by everyone; but it is still mostly ruled by corporations (Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook/Hotmail) for the average personal user. The protocol is open but the servers are run by different corporations each with their own UI. I’d guess there’s probably no reason we won’t end up like that some day, with some corporation creating a big social network with proprietary code, that happens to work well with ActivityPub so they have heaps of content and users on day 1, getting over that common initial social media hurdle (that none of your friends use it).

I mentioned Lemmy on Mastodon and some people noted some controversy surrounding the “main” instances. I don’t know exactly what concerned people

One of, if not the most active lemmy instance is a Marxist, pro-Russian war, pro-CCP, pro-North Korea community. When I signed up on lemmy.ml a while back, it was almost all you saw.

The problem with reddit alternatives is that, until now, the only people leaving reddit were the ones kicked off. They needed new homes and they found them in unmoderated communities they could host themselves, like lemmy.

Some of us have been waiting for some time for more “average” redditors to make the move, so this exodus is like Christmas coming early.

The difference with the Digg to Reddit exodus is that the two communities were rival competitors working in the same space. It wasn’t a case of one being a huge monolith that everyone used and the other being a small unknown, they were more evenly matched and reddit already had plenty of content and community, and neither were household names.

The situation today is very different. If Lemmy takes off, which I hope it does, it will likely still be small compared to reddit. A bit like how young people are fleeing facebook for other platforms, but there’s still no platform actually displacing facebook.

I believe this is the right place to ask: https://beehaw.org/post/413919

I played and enjoyed both. But I don’t think either 1 or 2 were as groundbreaking as the demo for 1. The demo was amazing, but then they took a year or two to get the full game out and by then it wasn’t really that interesting compared to other games that had come out in the meantime.

Budget Cuts 2 was basically more of what 1 was like. It was quite a while ago now that I played it, but it wasn’t groundbreaking as I recall.

Haha yes, it’s like a big foot reaching out to give reddit a kick in the pants: https://the-federation.info/node/details/25274

I think they might cave. Think of it like a negotiation.

John: Hey, we make zero from third party reddit apps, we should charge them

Fred: Well, they produce a lot of content, which is what keeps people on the site

John: Hmm, we should charge them anyway. Keep the shareholders happy. $1,000 per 50 million requests.

Fred: But won’t there be a big uproar?

John: Well, that will happen regardless of what we charge. If we think we can get away with charging $1000 per 50 million requests, let’s announce $12,000 per 50 million. Then we can walk back to $1,000 and everyone will think we’re being reasonable. If we started at $1,000 we’d probably have to walk it back to $100, and that’s a waste of time.

Fred: You’re brilliant, lock it in!