Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.

Creator of Fireside Fedi Show: https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

Chief Executive Officer BT Free Public Charity: https://btfree.org/

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  • Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.

    I didn’t get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it’s not, just costs us more money.

    So why the hell is the presentation acting like it’s a fucking victory?







  • ozoned@piefed.socialOPtoFediverse@lemmy.worldMAU vs UE
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    OH! This is brilliant stuff! Thank you!

    I run BT Free public charity https://btfree.org/ . I had been thinking about doing like a community vote and donate and like the top 3 split the prize pool or something. So allow people to vote on Lemmy or Piefed or Mastodon or whatever with like $1 donation. Yes, maybe Mastodon has the most users (idk) but can they get them out to vote? And no matter what, it’s supporting YOUR communities directly and spreading the word about these other platforms.


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    I agree with statement about statistics. But I disagree that if I’m fixing an old linux computer, and someone posts a meme, it’s not what I wanted. What I personally want on the Fediverse, is human connection and interaction. So I think that’s a wholly valid post. I’d like the answer, but I’m here to build bonds. I’ve met so many people I’ve talked with on the Fediverse, because I don’t just want the answer. I want REAL conversation.

    I agree if you’re looking at health of a SERVER, MAU counts. But let’s just take Lemmy. If we just look at lemmy.ml MAU doesn’t begin to tell the whole picture of “LEMMY” and not “lemmy”.

    I was just talking with someone that compared it to pamphlet bombings. You have NO CLUE how many see it. It’s more about how many SHOW UP. And I’d argue that “showing up” would look completely different even on Lemmy vs Mastodon vs Pixelfed vs anything else. So it seems like an INSANELY complex idea.

    I want folks to feel GOOD about the future of the Fediverse. And these posts about “MAU” distract from the real point. I can’t do anything about someone posting, I greatly appreciate the work, but I’d like to have a discussion about how we turn this value that has ZERO real world use on the Fediverse, and help pivot to how we can actually help grow our own communities in our own ways. :D

    So I guess maybe the real problem is I just don’t want to admit that MAU fluctuating might truly indicate the “health”. But I love it no matter what. :)

    Sorry, I’m an idealist and a romantic for the Fediverse. :D






  • This is going to federate via ActivityPub. My understanding if you’ll have a centralized repo under someone or some business. But you could have your own account and fork their repo to your federated server. You can work there, push changes and it goes up.

    Being AP you can follow changes, get alerts on releases, etc.

    "What about forge federation?

    Federation is under active development, and is considered experimental. This is because many required features−notably moderation and access control−have not yet been developed.

    The Forgejo project reserves the right to make breaking changes to its federation components with no prior warning. Such changes may be “backwards incompatible” and could result in the (sub-)domain used for your Forgejo instance to be “burned”. This means that the domain will no longer be usable for ActivityPub-based federation in the future, no matter whether you set up Forgejo from scratch or choose to use other software that uses ActivityPub.

    For more information on implemented features and future federation-related plans, check out the federation roadmap.

    If you are interested in working on federation-related code, consider joining our federation-focused Matrix room: #forgejo-federation:matrix.org (web link)"

    https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/faq/#what-about-forge-federation https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md