Manjaro. I've never known a distro break as much as this.
I generally don't like to judge distro's, because they've all got pros and cons. With Manjaro, the pros column is pretty empty :).
CrypticCoffee
joined 1 year ago
I had no idea he ran a promotion. Is he Booker T, or Booker Booker T?
Because what lithium ion battery last forever? They're well degraded after a few years.
How did ee, and sh.itjust.works grow? Because they were open. You have a short memory if you don't remember how many instances closed, during API blackout.
I didn't want to pick an instance that was running on a thinkpad that would get switched off when someone got bored.
Federation was confusing for many. Many used the join Lemmy website and options that were general purpose open instances that were English speaking and open were not huge. People made decisions in a short period of time and many went with world, ee, and sh.it. It isn't baffling. It is also no shock that people set up communities where they register and may be big enough to survive. Who would create a community that disappears in 3 weeks.
You painting users as brainless sheep does nothing more than give you some feeling superiority. Maybe your fragile ego needs that. I'll help if you need it. Congratulations, you're so smart and clever. More so than most. Thanks for stepping on your soap box and imparting your wisdom/red hot takes upon us.
ee wasn't big originally, but it was one of the few instances that were big enough to not dissappear, run by a competent sys admin, and small enough to not be affected by the big instance performance challenges, while keep registrations open when many instances shut the door on newcomers. Basically, ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world were there main options for people moving across. Their sensible stewardship has led to growth, and trust is why it has kept growing.
Federation means people can choose, and they do. It doesn't mean everything will be exactly the same size and stay small. An instance needs good sysadmin who will investigate issues an liase with dev teams to get them fixed. People will gravitate to those instances run by talented devs.
There is most definitely a circus, but absolutely no fun to be found here.
I resurrected: Degoogle[email protected] and have been trying to grow it a bit.
It was on 3.56k subscribers and 152 active monthly users on 21/7/23. 117 posts.
Now 4.54k, 333 active monthly users, 135 posts.
Best techniques I found was reach out to larger subs in a similar area with similar interests, link to their communities in your description and ask if they could do the same to help users find what they like. Also crossposting is great from larger areas. You can see crossposts from the main post and it's easy to click and deep dive into there. Crossposting about 3 posts which resonated with the users did most of the heavy lifting.
I absolutely did not have a tear in my eye when she won (well not when she won. I'm lapsed since Kenny dropped the belt, but watched for this!). I think some fuck was cutting onions.
They're not forcing you to be on the official mobile app? That's nice of them :).
I'm a lapsed day 1er (ish, well since DoN 2019) but I've not really watched since Kenny lost the title. Those two were the ones I cared most about.
Shida winning the belt made me put it on, felt a bit emotional watching that. The way she was treated previously, and now main event (should have been vs Tay Conti), and title. I just didn't think TK would go there again, I thought he'd dumped her on the old toys scrap heap.
Oh dear lord. Flair is bad for wanting to continue. TK putting a contract in front of him is all kinds of a bad decision. It'll pop a rating for one episode, and be like watching a car crash in slow motion.