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Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

While the letters are adjacent, I don't think that was a typo. "Finna" is pretty common slang, just a variant of "gonna"

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For further clarity, it's a shortening of "fitting to" just like how "gonna" is a shortening of "going to." As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While you're on the right track, it's fixing to, which to be honest doesn't make any sense

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wiktionary suggests both "fixing to" and "fitting to" are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear "fixing to". As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying "trying to" to mean "want to".

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Huh, I've never heard anyone say fitting to.

Trying to make more sense to me, because you haven't done what you're attempting, but you are attempting

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