Your probably right. And if an instance defederates with others, it may look like the number of users dropped without actually dropping.

Yeah thats another good one. Its almost like it would be useful to see what each tracker would do in the following scenarios:

1. Create a persona instance with a couple of accounts (like 3)

2. See what each site says

3. Create a post/ create comment/ upvote sample post.

4. Ban an account (How many active users are now being counted? How many comments? Did that comment/post go away retroactively?)

5. other such experiments…

6. Let everyone know the results.

Wish I had more time.

Again the interesting thing is that a lot of other sites have a huge difference in numbers. But they are all saying the same thing, “Active” users are declining or getting close to equilibrium but number of users are increasing. Strange.

I personally think that piefed/mastodon/other servers federating with lemmy might be messing up the numbers in some way. Both pumping up the numbers and making others “go down” in different sites and how they are pulling the data. Like if I respond via my mastodon account, is that a “new” account? Does that make it pop up as an active user? If I dont repost it via the mastodon account for a while, will I now be an inactive account, even though I still look at lemmy with it? Im not sure.

Whats some good IPTV channels?

Ive been enjoying Good Boy Galaxy. Its a new GBA game that is also going to hit steam soon. Its a fun little platformer/metroid lite kind of game.

Ive put in an unhealthy amount of time playing Peglin. Its a peggle rouge like game. I didnt think I would like it, but I ended up getting it after seeing Many A True Nerd play it.

I just beat Cobalt Core. Its like FTL but has its own charm and playstyle.

The interesting thing to note is each website I go to that looks at the total number of lemmy users is wildly different. Im wondering if there is some sort of blocker/defederated instance occurred a couple of months ago? Im not sure.

Either way, number of users are up.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Code behind the site: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime

Yep just putting rails and COBOL will get you loads of contacts. Not good ones but you’ll get them.

I have one running on the equivalent of a pi. It works no problem. The biggest issue is the constant io and network traffic but it’s not terrible.

I wish there was a only poll once every x amount of time instead of the constant polling, but it’s a good solution. I use lemmy.world as the main account and the other account when I need to post under my real name with some projects I run. Plus it makes for a good development instance since I work on lemmy from time to time

I agree. I want something that can replace (or enhance) my monitor. Thats it. Looks like it could be a quick win for companies that do it. Ive seen a couple but they all have very big downsides…like price (like you said).

Try this: https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.horror

It excludes the horror games.

They are certainly entertaining.

Im waiting for it to come out! Looks like a fun game.

That’s some dungeon crawler Karl sh*t.

Love it.

There is a lot of surface level stuff going on in software development now days. It’s great for getting the job done, but just learning to solve a problem ends up being very difficult for developers. It will be an interesting 10 years with the invent of AI.

I remember those days. I used mercurial and svn. And file locking in other solutions.

I’m so happy with git.

Itch.io has some great games. Steam has an entire section. Totally agree with you.

I just got Good Boy Galaxy. Awesome game.

This game looks just like lightning force. I’ll be getting it. Thanks!!

Wow this article goes into the nuance. And it terrified me.

Tilvideo and makertube are great.