God I wish you get that grant. Your Fediverser project is super interesting and promising, and I think could be a great boon.
Coelacanth
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Commenters were already counted, though, so this bump is really just the vote-only population getting added. Which is still important to maintaining a healthy and varied front-page, mind you.
Leaving Lemmy for Threads was never really a concern I heard from anyone, they are completely different services. Like you say, Mastodon is more at risk.
What people on Lemmy were concerned with was rather whether undesirable users on Threads could filter onto Lemmy and negatively affect the user experience here. With the magnitudes larger userbase, Threads users could potentially dominate the Hot feed if they started posting to Lemmy communities.
I see. I did get some bad vibes from him from the off so I'm not completely surprised. I'm glad I never invested any time or effort into that site. I hope some of the users leaving found Lemmy.
Define display. Subscribing to a Lemmy community on Threads should "work", but won't be a pleasant viewing experience for your feed most likely.
They can, however, post directly to Lemmy communities should they wish, by @-ing the community.
Intermingling requires Threads users to specifically and actively seek Lemmy out.
What was the Squabbles drama? I remember that site being touted by some as a Reddit alternative during the APIcalypse but I never really cared for it for various reasons, both with the site itself and its founder.
I never really followed it further beyond making an account, though, as I ended up here.
I think at least part of it was the COVID games boom which led to many companies over-hiring, which seems to have proved unsustainable now that the bubble period is over.
As much as I yearn for more compositions from him, if my GOAT wants to retire then I only wish him restful twilight years.
I don't think frame generation is crap outright, it's still free frames, it's just only really useful when you're already at a solid frame rate.
Might be just frame generation I was thinking of.
Both sides have their benefits, and it's a shame there is no good best-of-both-worlds. I get where you're coming from, I never felt the urge to participate on Reddit because it was so often just shouting into the void and getting buried in hundreds of one-word replies and in-jokes and memes. Here I feel seen, and often feel like my contribution (although mostly just small comments) makes an impact.
At the same time, a huge critical mass of a userbase is completely necessary for niche communities to survive. Maybe not as overwhelmingly massive as Reddit's, but magnitudes larger than Lemmy has right now. Lemmy has a very distinct userbase slant and if you're in the target audience (tech, FOSS, Linux etc) you're probably great here. But even common interests like sports struggle for traction, and true niche stuff has an extremely tough time.