I did a little reading on databases.

I did not work on the Summary Functions and Maps exercise on Kaggle today.

But I did get extra rest to deal with the vaccine side effects.

Ultimate goal is to get a Masters Degree, so I want to make progress most days. Not sure today counts as progress, but I didn't really expect much.

Hopefully I feel OK tomorrow.

Are you working towards anything?

I just got mine today. Wondering if the Discuss.Online crowd is staying on top of COVID-19 vaccinations.

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I made a post on a community on the Lemmy.world instance and I can only see it from my discuss.online account, not a separate lemmy.world account. Is this a federation issue? Not sure why this would happen if we’re federated with lemmy.world. Thanks for feedback!

Hey y'all. I'm not a huge fan of defederating other instances but I honestly don't know that hexbear is adding any value to our discussions. So far everything I have seen is trying to be edgy and gatekeeping with manipulative language. They also seem to enjoy stirring things up for entertainment.

So I pose the question is it worth it to stay federated to a seemingly bad faith instance for the few people who might understand and enjoy the lulz.

I would vote no but I'm open to the discussion.

Hello! Was hoping to make discuss.online my new home instance, but I'm having trouble accessing some communities on other instances:

• !artisans@reddthat.com
• !mapmaking@lemmy.world
• !rpgcreation@ttrpg.network
• !rpgdesign@lemm.ee

They don't show up in communities search, and trying to go to them directly returns a server error page, with an error message given like:

FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=rpgcreation%40ttrpg.network&amp%3Bpage=1&amp%3Blimit=20&amp%3Bsort=Active&amp%3Btype_=All

I can access other communities on all of those instances...

• !games@lemmy.world
• !abandonedporn@reddthat.com
• !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
• !whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee

... so I know it's not an issue with them being blocked, but it seems like they're not being fully federated either?

Anything I can do on my end to further investigate or attempt a workaround?

Hello,

I hope this is the good place to make this post.

I wanted to access this community from lemmy.today, but it seems that it cannot be found.

Is there anything blocking the federation from happening?

https://lemmy.today/c/discuss@discuss.online

Thank you for your help!

What goes on?

for example i posted several times in this thread and no showed https://lemmy.world/post/2461610 is there a way of knowing where's worth posting to because i feel like i'm just wasting time if i'm posting and no one will ever see it.

An introspection on why bother to write a blog.

I cannot see comments made by lemmy.world instance when logged in to discuss.online. Not sure if any other instances are affected this way. I also cannot search some communities. I have not figured out a pattern. I wonder if it is intentional. Here is an example: https://discuss.online/post/202378. There are a few comments under the post, but I do not see them.

The fastest growing app will have the worst retention rates.

Imagine a world where all users are the same, regardless of social network. Imagine that if 1000 users start using a social app on day 1, that only:

• 900 of them will be using it on day 2
• 800 of them on day 7
• 600 of them on day 30
• 500 of them on day 365

Now imagine if network A hasn't grown in 5 years, but has 100MM users. Network B is doubling every 2 days, and is currently at 100MM users.

Which will have worse retention?

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110720363135775822

It seems that there are at least 30 Million people that want a different experience than me.

Forbes described the Threads service with the following summary:

The most significant difference between the two platforms is the timeline, as Meta’s app only displays an algorithmic timeline—in a similar vein to Facebook and Instagram—and offers no option for a Twitter-like reverse chronological time showing the most recent posts.

The algorithm-driven timeline also displays posts made by accounts that the user does not follow—something that Twitter only restricts to its alternate “For You” timeline.

Threads is a mobile-only experience at the moment and users can only make posts, write comments and follow people on the platform’s mobile app, unlike Twitter, which allows all of this on its website as well.

Meta’s official blog announcing the launch of Threads also makes no mention of a native desktop or web browser experience, which is currently limited to seeing people’s posts and their profile pages.

Hashtags—a key element of Twitter’s identity and a feature that has permeated other social platforms including Facebook and Instagram—are not present on Threads, as the platform does not allow users to search for specific content.

This means that there is no “trending section” on Threads and the only way to discover content on the platform is based on what Meta’s algorithm decides to serve.

Are there any communities missing from Lemmy that you'd like to have started?

Or

Are there communities on federated instances you wish existed here?

Please let me know if you said yes to either of these questions! I'd love to get them started here. I can either help you do it, or I can start to build it up.

I'm hoping to grow this community, and part of doing that is as simple as asking you what you want.

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What are you doing today to celebrate?

Grilling and fireworks for me today.

Why do you lurk?

I used to be a lurker when on Reddit. I'd post here and there but mostly just kept to myself. It was because something as large as Reddit felt like shouting into the void.

On Lemmy, the communities are small, and so are the instances. Is it lack of something to say, anxiety, or you're a bot? What's up!

I find myself being way more active on Lemmy & Mastodon than on Reddit & Twitter.

A lot of you are new to Lemmy and the fediverse. You might have some questions about it, about me, or about discuss.online and it’s sister site utter.online.

Ask me anything. I’ll be watching this thread all day today: June 30th, 2023.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/860118

For better or worse the iPhone hit the market today 16 years ago changing the world forever.

DON'T YOU GET IT! 🙃