Slightly off topic, but also not:
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If Elena Rossini is indicative of the first generation of native influensers who are successful on the Fediverse, it's really just another reason why I like where this is headed.
It also has 7.4 on IMDB. I should give it a watch.
That's on the Mastodon side - having bluesky opted in by default would be less problematic, and would solve a lot of problems. The main reason it's not done yet is for reasons of scale.
I feel like a lot of what "Free Our Feeds" is trying to achieve has already been done by @snarfed.org@snarfed.org with @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. Supporting Bridgy in order to make all Bluesky accounts open for bridging by default would leap us pretty fast towards achieving these goals, by making any microblogging platform on the fediverse a genuine alternative.
Instead they need $30 million to develop yet another thing.
If Bluesky users want to fund this, it should at least safeguard that Bluesky remains committed to leaving AT Proto running. As long as they keep that running, a bridge between the Fediverse and Bluesky remains possible. Which is all I personally need, so it's all fine by me.
But what a waste of $30 million it would be.
I make the same mistake all the time for some reason, though I know which is which. I have a theory the reason is that the X axis is often used to plot years (Y), which messes with my brain ever so slightly.
That said, I don't think the Y axis should necessarily start in zero in a graph that seeks to show the pattern of growth rather than the number of users in absolute terms. If anything, a longer X axis would have been more useful, in order to show how unusual such a growth pattern is.
Yeah, I know I shouldn't bother. I am just annoyed by the misconception that all graphs should always start in 0 on the Y axis, as if it was some law of nature. Shouldn't allow myself to get dragged in further. :)
Meta recently decided to viciously lick Trump's ass by, among other things, allowing hate speech on their platforms.
Not everyone is impressed.
Just to clarify, supply and demand refers here to supply and demand for the stock, not for the product (cars).
Generally, the two will be related. Sometimes, however, investors see a stock going up and they consider it valuable because they see it performing well, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is how bubbles are made.
The Tesla stock is keeping afloat exclusively due to the perceived worth of the Tesla stock. It could keep increasing if the perceived value keeps increasing. At some point it will almost certainly fail spectacularly, but if this happens tomorrow or in ten years is anybody's guess.
The fact that you believe these platforms were the same before and after these events makes it sound like you were not, in fact, there to see it happen. In my experience, it permanently changed both platforms, transforming them from weird niche sites to genuine alternatives.
That said, what you find interesting or not is not any of my business.
I feel like this is part of what makes @fedify@hollo.social one of the most important fediverse projects at the moment - it aims to keep everyone from having to do the same, overly complicated job of activitypub integration over and over and over again.
It's frustration that nobody wants to dig into old code, but I get frustrated having to re-work my own code from a year ago. So I guess I sympathize.
I don't think anyone here is arguing that the entire world will be using pixelfed by the end of the year, and that its usage will expand to other galaxies by the end of the decade.
It's a comment about the current growth curve, and it is both accurate and interesting.
The only thing worse than misrepresentation of statistics is completely misguided criticism of statistical representation.
While we're at it, the X axis doesn't start at zero either.
Pixelfed is having its moment in the spotlight - on the Apple app store it's currently getting more downloads than Facebook, Bluesky or Instagram.
Of course, it's helped along by the fact that people don't have it installed already. But still fun to se the Fediverse represented in the list of popular apps. I think similar things are happening on Android in many countries.