My understanding, using the federation-email analogy, defederation is like yahoo mail and gmail users not being able to send and receive emails from each other. In this case lemmy.world and lemmy.ml can’t see each others users/communities/posts/comments/votes (someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about any part).

Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz just made a post about instance defederations. TL:DR of the post is only 3 instances/servers have any significant defederation (>5%). 2 “tankie” instances (lemmygrad.ml [67%] and hexbear.net [64%]) and the porn instance (fedinsfw.app [13%]).

No worries :)

• Not sure we have a Hobbydrama, but it’s also not my interest, so I could have blocked it.
• Cursedcrochet looks fun. We have an active knitting community, but probably not enough activity/users for a specific “cursedcrochet” community at this point. Also have a semi-active leatherwork community, if that’s of interest.
• Wunkus seems great. I think the closest match we may have would be Scrungy Cats, but there could be communities I don’t know about.
• Also, in a different comment someone mentioned the solarpunk communities (basically anything on the slrpnk.net instance), I’m a big fan of those, and think they’re worth checking out.

The threadiverse (roughly the reddit-like part of the fediverse) is pretty small (~43k MAU), so if something doesn’t exist and you want it to, your probably going to have to start and build it yourself.

I was kind of off-put by that initially, but I kind of like it now. It’s kind of like building your own little space and people can come check it out and see what you’ve been building and contribute if they feel like it. I created fedilytics (Fediverse-Analytics) a couple months ago because I was curious how the fediverse was doing. It’s not particularly active with other people (got first non-me post yesterday!), but I mostly built it for myself and enjoy anytime someone stops in to talk in the comments.

If you do decide to make a community in the future, I’d suggest making the post in the community and then cross-posting it, to a larger relevant community, to increase traffic to your post (as many people just stick to their subscribed feed).

If you provide some of your interests/hobbies, we can probably be more helpful.

That being said, I think these are a few active and interesting communities:

• Superb Owl
• Linux Phones
• Gardening

Regarding places to avoid, I don’t think anyplace needs to be avoided, per say. Politics can be problematic, if you go into those posts.

There’s no real algorithm, so you need to curate your own feed. In general, I’d suggest, if you see a community that could interest you, just subscribe. You can always unsubscribe later (if it turns out not to be what you want), but getting a denser “good stuff” home feed is beneficial.

By the same token, I’d suggest blocking communities you have zero interest in (helps filtering, so you come across more content you are interested in when browsing “All”). If you run into a problematic user, report (if they have done something reportable), block, and move on.

If 2 communities are posting the same content and you get tired of seeing double, I’d suggest removing the community from the bigger or flagship instance (ex. Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Piefed.Social).

This would have the effect of distributing the communities across the threadiverse rather than having them bunch up on a few. A problem with bunching can be if an instance goes down, they take their users/communities with them. Most of the medium/large instances in the threadiverse are stable, but it has happened in the past (Lemm.ee).

My understanding is this should be much less of a problem in the future, they are working on making user profiles and communities transferable between instances/servers.

Note: there is an active autism community, if that’s of interest to you.

Apparently I like War, Mystery, and Comedy. List:

• Andor: Is great, even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan. Each 3 episode arc is better than the last. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they made a Season 2 and Season 2 is better. You can use Rogue One as a cap to the series.

• Veronica Mars: watched all of it for the first time this year. It holds up 20+ years later.

• Ted Lasso: Comedy about a college American Football coach coaching English Football/soccer.

• The Good Place: Strangely a philosophy heavy comedy. It slows in places, but is absolutely worth watching.

• Schmitt’s Creek: Comedy about unlikeable rich people becoming poor. It takes a bit to start, but each season is better than the last and nails the landing.

Possibles:

• Altered Carbon (Season 1): Great murder mystery set in a cyberpunk, dystopian future.

• Shogun: Medieval Japan samurai “game of thrones”-esk show. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they are making a Season 2.

• Band of Brothers: War show about American rangers in WW2.

My understanding of the political landscape of specific instances is:

• Neo-liberal: Lemmy.world, Piefed.social (maybe)
• Marx-Leninist (ML): Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net
• Anarchist: Lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus

Everything else is pretty unaligned. However, ~50% of users are on those instances.

Upvoted, because I think it’s unknown, so unpopular. Though it sound like a good idea to me.

I’m curious to hear any drawbacks others find.

Worthwhile post, wrong community.

I may have misunderstood your comment.

If you’re asking what the downsides of not using “feeling” language is, from my perspective, when a comment is just stated, the statement comes across as a statement of fact, rather than someone’s understanding.

Someone’s understanding of something is not always fact and by lowering the statement from a ‘fact’ to an ‘understanding’ it lowers the temperature when information counter to someone’s understanding is presented.

My experience, is that it also helps start a dialogue. Example:

Person 1: “My understanding is that the government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “I hadn’t heard that. My understanding is that homes are heated with building heaters. Can you provide me with a source to look more into the lasers you described?”

Versus: Person 1: “The government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “You’re wrong. Homes are heated with internal heaters. Where did you hear that?”

From my perspective, the first exchange is more amicable and the second more contentious and more likely to lead to insults rather than a constructive conversation.

Edit: spelling.

Nothing. They’re a suggestion. I’ll work on restating the list to better reflect that. Appreciate the feedback.

Probably should be reworded as a suggestion rather than a rule.

Had another thought. If you could remote into their server could they not remote into your server?

I’m thinking this could be a good gateway trial option for clients. You set up services on your server and give them limited time access to the server to use the FOSS software. If they want, after the trial they can transfer their data. You then wipe the server to ensure their data is erased.

Also, an option I’m not sure you’d be excited about. You host everything for them and offer the service of using your server for their business needs (rather than just a trial). May be less headache in the long run (less overall hardware means less overall issues, presumably).

For the running of software on your server, I believe there are companies that do that already for the fediverse instances. May be worth looking at and seeing what they offer and for what price.

I think this could be a thing, but I feel getting the word out would be the hard part.

Maybe going to small business/incubator business networking events could provide potential clients. Getting in touch with incubators in general would probably be good, as they can pass word to their clients. Colleges and universities may be another avenue of getting the word out to potential new small businesses.

Also to consider, if it’s for businesses, there would need to be data redundancy. Otherwise, I feel, it would be a nonstarter. Data recovery/access to redundancy would likely need to be automated or very easy to do, otherwise you’re probably looking at irate calls in the middle of the night.

Language Transfer is free and teaches you why the language is the way it is rather than just memorization.

My recollection is you can get to a 3000 word conversational level much faster than via straight memorization (ex. Duolingo).

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To echo what your saying and add a bit, it seems to me Godot would be a great idea.

Given OP has already stepped away from development once, I think a more universal game engine rather than a custom engine would be beneficial.

Also, I suspect, there are a lot more Godot developers compared to people who are willing to take time to understand and develop a custom game engine.

I’m not familiar with deploying custom code/packages/programs on a multitude of systems, but from the Godot updates, my understanding is that, its clicking a box. I feel that multiple systems are a nontrivial hurdle that could be avoided via Godot.

Last thing off the top of my head is that I recall one of the Godot tutorials is developing a pixel art fighting game. That seems like it would be an easy way to boot strap the game’s development.

Regardless, I think a FOSS brawler game is a great idea. Good luck with development and I look forward to checking it out when its available.

Appreciate the confirmation. I actually checked GamingOnLinux before doing the math, but they hadn’t updated their graphs yet for March.

Since I did the math correct the first time, I’m going to double down and math again!

Non-Steam Deck Linux % for English Language: 8.63%

Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * ((Linux Overall - SteamOS Linux % of Overall) / (Overall - SteamOS Linux % of Overall) = (82.75% / 39.09%) * ((5.33% - 1.30%) / (100% - 1.30%)) = 8.63%

SteamOS Linux % of Overall = Linux Overall * SteamOS Linux = 5.33% * 24.48% = 1.30%

Assumptions: % of English Language usage is uniform across all Distros; Probably another assumption, but it’s not coming to me right now.

Not sure if I’m doing the math right, but Linux % for English Language users is 11.28%!

Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * Linux Overall = (82.75% / 39.09%) * 5.33% = 11.28%

Edit: Changed “?” to “!” after GamingOnLinux, via Tywèle@piefed.social, confirmed my math.

I didn’t see it and can’t find it now. Can you point me to it?

Edit: Found it. Small print at the bottom, time: 1:50.

That was unexpectedly pretty great.

My understanding is you can’t migrate posts and comments, but you can migrate subscriptions and blocks. I’ve done it to both Lemmy and Piefed instances.