MeatsOfRage

Definitely. Luckily the fediverse by its nature is somewhat insulated from becoming a company with a CEO like Reddit.

I mean, it kind of did. When Digg imploded Reddit received a massive influx of users over night. At the time and with Digg out of the picture there just wasn't a good alternative to Reddit (slashdot and fark to lesser degrees) so they had the whole market to themselves. Similarly a lot of us came to Lemmy overnight when Reddit turned off their apps. The difference is, Reddit for many many users is still good enough and fundamentally the same as it's always been.

The fact is though, without search traffic the only way to end up on Lemmy is knowing it already exists and that's going to hinder growth.

Lemmy could absolutely benefit from a bit more traffic. Lemmy is a good Reddit replacement for the largest subs. Like if you're into self hosting, Linux and general tech there's a lot to offer. But if I need to engage with a smaller community or ask a niche question I know there just isn't enough people here to fulfill that. Either that or a lot of smaller Lemmy communities are just bots reposting from their equivalent subreddit.

I'm pulling a number out of my ass but it seems like for every 50 people to subscribe to a community, you'll get 1 really active poster and 49 lurkers. My hometown on Reddit has 23k subscribers it's safe to say it's got about 400 active users. On Lemmy it's 86 and as the assumption math goes, there's only 1 person posting there.

Even if our traffic doubled we'd still be tiny in comparison but at least the small communities would start to come alive

Basically you have to bond over a game, be it physical, like sports or board like regular board games or as many people mentioned here D&D. For sports, regardless of your skill level, there's a group. Beer leagues and such. Solo sports like mountain biking can work too but you have to be super consistent and really get into the sport where you have common ground.

If physical stuff is out of the question, then you have your board games. Even small towns have meetups.

The important thing is actually doing these. Friends don't just come to you and you have to be consistent. Most people don't just become friends in one or two sessions, it takes time and rapport building. And you can't always wait for others to initiate the friends part. You might have to be the one that goes "hey wanna grab some wings after this."

I always loved the behind the scenes for Eternal Sunshine. Kate was so excited about the production, she'd be like "I had to crawl through this hole into a different set and do a quick costume change so we could do it all in one take."

Also there's like good weird and bad weird. This is good weird. Bad weird is having your name on Jeffery Epstein's flight logs.

I've literally gotten spam emails that include a real password I've used in the past in the subject with some vaguely threatening message. Thanks to all these leaks, spammers are getting more targeted. Luckily I've been generating all my passwords for the last few years so I don't have to worry about specific passwords getting out as much anymore.

There's a link in their Read Me on GitHub under the title about launching with Docker. Are you familiar with Docker?

Unsolicited messages and scam texts are the lowest of the low. I wouldn't even put this in the same ballpark as advertising.

Me with Dave the Diver

There isn't a bump where the lens would come in contact with the table while it's set down unless you have a case that makes it flush with the phone again.

Here's some pictures from a Google Pixel 1. There's a reason they never advertised low light handheld photos because you basically had to take 20 pictures of the same subject to get one that didn't exhibit some kind of motion blur. Optical stabilization reduced all this dramatically.

They had to have large amounts of post processing to make up for the small sensor and relied on AI to clean up your image. Personally I always prefer to have good source images and leave upscaling as a last resort.