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Stats for Programmer Humour:

2023-11-24: 0.00% [email protected] 824 Active Users
2023-11-25: -0.04% [email protected] 818 Active Users
2023-11-26: -2.15% [email protected] 776 Active Users
2023-11-27: -0.32% [email protected] 760 Active Users
2023-11-28: 58432.75% [email protected] 7424 Active Users
2023-11-29: 4.51% [email protected] 7607 Active Users
2023-11-30: 8.68% [email protected] 7864 Active Users

28/11 is when they changed how active users are counted on programming.dev. That 54K percent increase will continue to effect the 7 day average for the next few days.

I don't know much about federation issues with programming.dev, but I think the reason why there's so many results from that instance is they've changed how active users are calculated for their communities. Instead of it being just users who post and comment, it's now users who post, comment or vote on anything.

I saw a post about it yesterday (in their Meta community I think), and wondered how it would affect these lists. I'll have to see what it's like in the coming days (that instance will seem way more active than every other instance, but each community's activity growth should stabilise, hopefully)

Nothing on here should really be abandoned: if it seems so, it's usually either for language reasons, or because your instance's copy of a community isn't (yet) showing everything that's on the original. I often look at the original (i.e instance/c/community, not myinstance/c/community@instance) to determine what's going on.

Crawler at lemmyverse has been failing for the past few days, so today's results are over a wider gap than normal

"So, what's it like being married to a Sith Lord?"
"Well, you know, it has its ups and downs"

Yeah - this community, like some others, only supports 'undetermined' (aka unspecified) as a discussion language. You can see by running:

curl https://lemmy.kde.social/api/v3/community?name=kde | jq .discussion_languages

This gives an array with just '0' as a value. Most other communities would give an array like [0,37] (for Unspecified and English), or [0,47] (for Unspecified and French), etc.

It can be fixed by a moderator - going into the community's settings and using the CTRL key with the mouse to click both Unspecified and English.

Speaking very generally about the idea of locking communities, it's useful to consider whether it's really your community to lock. You may have created it, and/or be listed as the 'owner', but - really - the admins of an instance have let you create a community, and are letting you be the mod of it.

If you lock it, and say "we're all moving to this other community", it's not unfeasible that a instance's admin may respond "mod demoted, community unlocked, new mods wanted", or that someone else may request ownership of the original community and it's then transferred to them.

So I'm in favour of a quality-over-quantity merging of communities, but - as mods - I think the most you can do is pin a post in the niche community, encouraging people to post or cross-post to the main one (It's better if the OP does the cross-posting - rather than it be automated - so it's them that get the replies in their inbox).

I hope so. But maybe don't ask an AI to depict it, it could be horrifying.

Looks tranquil (the lack of any legs has never bothered any other Star Wars character before)

Oh right, so contrary to my comment the other day: feddit.uk aren't changing - it looks like a group of people got financially and emotionally invested in creating a new instance, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath them by the return of the original admin.

DALL-E 3PO has made Bob Ross scarier than Darth Vader, lol.

Image taken from the latest video by Auralnauts on YT: https://inv.us.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=JIUY24Zc5hw (it's a fun watch)