I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!

“…scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down…”

I’m glad to hear that and look forward to seeing what they plan to do. Realistically, I’m not expecting much.

Say, are you saying that it’s possible to take an existing Mastodon post, and post it into Lemmy? If so can you pliz point me to someplace that says how to do that? So far I’ve only seen this guide: https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1467-8270-7e3d-48d984455929 and it only says how to crosspost a new Mastodon post, not an existing Mastodon post.

The article seems well-written, except that:

the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we’re like “and others” lel… I guess they didn’t mention Pixelfed either tho and it’s a lot “hotter”…

in panel 3 the guy shoulda said: “Blow me!”

Truly, we have left the era of irony and entered the era of farce.

Apple Maps currently shows it as Gulf of Mexico, fwiw.

Awesome, thx for the info.

Wait, if Arthur wasn’t some kind of Anglo-Saxon, what was he? Some kind of Celt? Pict? Cimerrian? Wikipedia just says “Post-Roman Briton” which I don’t understand… Was his father really a centurion or something?

From the title “Junior Video Editor” and your description of the salary you proposed it sounds like this is an entry-level job that’ll probably go to someone fresh out of school.

It’s hard to read too much into it because this might just be a form letter, but it sounds like they genuinely thought you were a good candidate but they were looking for a more junior position. Sometimes this is dictated by their budget available.

Even if this is a form letter, they probably have a letter for the case where the salary was OK but they never want to hear from the candidate again. So you didn’t get that letter, at least!

It looks like this was a “near miss”. It’s discouraging, but keep at it, you can do it.

I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…

Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!

the more popular places on the Fediverse seem to be stagnating right now

Dunno, from Fediverse Observer, it looks like lemmy and mastodon are growing slowly over the last couple weeks. (the mastodon stats look a little weird tho – there’s a plummet on Jan 30th that looks like a data collection artifact.)

Excellent point, do you happen to know where I can find longer-term usage data?

I dunno… it’s like the difference between a chain restaurant and your favorite local cafe/pub/diner. The chain restaurant has its benefits, but you have the best interactions with your buddies at your local cafe/pub/diner.

user retention

yeah, hard to tell… Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now… if pixelfed peaks at 300k it’s reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).

ofc every situation is different… e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count…

It’s a great description. Fire creates H2O in gaseous form? I may have known that, but it makes sense in their explanation.

There’s a parable about this Taoist Master who’s seen standing by a mountain view.

They ask the Master: are you meditating? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.

They ask the Master: are you contemplating nature? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.

They ask the Master: are you waiting for something? And the Master says no, I’m just standing here.

Sometimes it’s okay to just stand there.

:) :)