So there’s a formal/professional approach and there’s an informal approach.

Formally, there are fields like Risk Management aka Risk Analysis; in these fields there are various frameworks and approaches for things like threat models and risk assessments. This is more than most of us need.

Informally “this is what I want to protect myself against” is indeed a good way of thinking about it. You can write something up for yourself, or you can just think it through. If the threat model helps you use your time / resources wisely, then it’s a good threat model.

Reminds me to check out lynx again.

Dating apps aren’t working time to make a meme with bad punctuation.

You might even say… “Let one hundred and ninety-six flowers bloom!”

So if I’m right about this…

• !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is the original one, which was frozen and brought back to life after everyone left. people still post here tho dunno why maybe they’re lost?
• !196@lemmy.world - this is where the mods went. it has a lot of subscribers but most of those are dead accounts
• !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is where all the posters went. the most active one.
• !19684@lemmy.blahaj.zone - bc “[kittenzrulz123] thought it was funny and … its more left wing”
• !196@pawb.social - the furry version
• !195@lemmy.world - this is locked and just points to one of the 196es.

But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?

Crazy talk. Next you’re gonna say we only need one 196 instead of five.

Best Pokemon theme was “Pose” (Japanese version):

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_wSRnTT1E
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJyDqN0X9Cc (only visuals on youtube /sadge)

https://archive.org/details/IsThisTomorrowAmericaUnderCommunismCatecheticalGuild

The comic book includes some of the first published comic drawings by Minneapolis-born Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_Tomorrow

you can make a dummy Facebook account and only login using their website from behind a VPN.

After a couple days Facebook will say you are suspicious and demand that you upload a government ID (and/or take a “video selife” or something similar.)

Lemmy is different from Reddit in one important way.

Reddit is a product. You install the app, you look at the ads, the mods and admins curate an endless feed of cartoons and safe ragebait and awwwunexpectedsmiles.

Lemmy is an environment. If you’re passive, then any random thing may happen to you. So you have to be proactive in this environment.

• You could subscribe to communities that are non-politics/news, non-meme, non-tech, and browse these “subscribed” communities.
• You could use blocklists, as described elsewhere in this post.
• You could find an instance that does some of this work for you, by defederating and blocking certain types of opinions and behaviors. This seems to be what you want, and many people have provided suggestions.

These are all ok. But the one defining characteristic of Lemmy is that it is not just another product.

During the API exodus a lot of us deleted our comments bc we didn’t like the fact that Reddit was monetizing the knowledge we had created. Some people argued that it was better that the knowledge remain out there. Either way is cool I guess.

Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account.

don’t forget to delete your comments there!

ikr lemmy has a little over 40k active users. If you look at the first data point just as the slope starts to rise, that’s where lemmy is by comparison:

Total users is pretty meaningless bc it includes things like users who left and will never return, and bot accounts.

Look at this for inspiration: https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Someday it will happen for Lemmy again.

• “local feed” on a smaller pixelfed instance will be smaller
• “global feed” on every pixelfed instance will see all pixelfed and all (image) mastodon posts, but comments made on mastodon posts using pixelfed will not be seen on mastodon
• in theory you can see Lemmy posts and subscribe to Lemmy communities with pixelfed but I haven’t got it to work. I’ve seen someone post from pixelfed to Lemmy but commenting didn’t really work.

I wonder if that actually helps their growth tho. When I first started joining lemmy I was put off by the contradictory instructions that it didn’t really matter what instance I joined, but IT WAS VITALLY IMPORTANT that I pick the right one (because of “defederation” and “local communities” – terms that meant nothing to me at the time.) But if you’re joining pixelfed and you can choose either the overwhelmingly largest instance or a tiny one, then you’re just going to pick the largest one.

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Be interesting to see what it looks like a month from now – the size of plateau and drop-off.

pixelfed.social’s starting to slow down. I think the growth’s hitting it hard.

Wow awesome. I made another couple comments on your post from pixelfed.social and mastodon.social (as “Terencio”)

• my comment made on mastodon.social showed up on pixelfed.social
• my comment made on mastodon.social did NOT show up on https://lemmy.today/post/22411382 Hypothesis: bc nobody on lemmy.today is following that mastodon.social account?
• my comment made on pixelfed.social did NOT show up on mastodon.social. specifically, https://mastodon.social/@MrPistachios@pixelfed.social/113855663395156100 This was a bit of a surprise.
• my comment made on pixelfed.social did NOT show up on https://lemmy.today/post/22411382 Hypothesis: again, bc nobody on lemmy.today is following that pixelfed.social account? Also, I forgot to add the “@sideoftheroad@lemmy.today” part.