Competing standards and clueless sellers are bad, and then the tire marketing makes things even worse.

Marketed for road? That’s 700c.
Marketed for mountain? That’s 29".
Marketed for ebikes? That’s 28".

But all three tires fit on the same 622mm diameter rim.

It varies greatly depending on your setup.

Lemmy.world’s monthly expenses are around €1,200. Though that includes hosting more services that just Lemmy.
https://blog.mastodon.world/

For comparison, it looks like £30 per month for lemmy.zip:
https://lemmy.zip/post/7766703

And lemmy.ca is around CAD$30 per month:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/39134

At one point Reddthat.com was considering moving to a bigger server that would cost A$150-200 per month:
https://reddthat.com/post/8840079

Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.

I think GDP in this case, but yeah, same idea. It makes sense that wealthy countries with good infrastructure are going to be high on the list.

Country (nominal GDP rank)
USA (1)
France (7)
Germany (4)
Japan (3)
Finland (47)
Canada (9)
Netherlands (18)
Russia (8)
UK (6)

High-GDP countries that are notably missing are China (2, users are limited by the Great Firewall) and India (5, still building their infrastructure).

I wonder why Finland is so high on the list? Good for them, regardless.

I saw the report and came as fast as I could!

Tangentially related: if you see something that needs to be addressed now, like CSAM or gore, notify an instance admin via Matrix. That tool can send push notifications, so you’re more likely to get a prompt response. Some instances also have public Matrix chats you can use.

You can find the Matrix account info for Lemmy users by clicking the “Send Secure Message” button in a user’s profile.

That FediDB stats page is confusing. It isn’t clear whether they only count instances that have joined Fedipact, or also include instances that have blocked Threads without joining Fedipact. A quick glance at the list suggests the latter. But in that case, there are a bunch of instances missing from the list.

The list on the Fedipact site is a better source:
https://fedipact.veganism.social/

As for admins versus users, here on sh.itjust.works we held a vote among our users. The result was overwhelming: 78% of users voted to preemptively block Threads.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

(Edit to fix some awkward phrasing.)

Holy cow, happy cake day!

What have the past three years on Lemmy been like for you?

three-month probationary basis

Stating this indicates they will never give you an ounce of trust, nor the benefit of the doubt in any situation.

It’s interesting that Mastodon instances are trending in the opposite direction of Lemmy instances. Most are staying federated with Threads. I wonder if that’s simply indicative of the strong anti-corporate culture on Lemmy, or if there’s more to it.

Meta doesn’t need to bother with back-channel influence peddling of existing instances. If Meta simply opened its own Lemmy instance it would immediately be the largest Lemmy instance by orders of magnitude.

What are we supposed to do with a vague post that contains zero actionable information? What are the bad faith and spammy communities of concern? Has OP been reporting rule-breaking posts to bring them to the attention of mods and admins? Has OP tried messaging the admins directly?

I’m not familiar with this particular case, but in general it’s completely reasonable to not be a single-issue voter dedicated to one party. Politics is complicated and parties have broad (sometimes conflicting) platforms. Even when one party clearly fits your ideals, occasionally they have a particular candidate that you just can’t get behind.

She’s taking her kid to Danny Daycare.

Edit: Dang, the pictures didn’t come through very readable. Sorry. I’m going to leave it like this for now. It’s late and I need to go to bed.

Edit 2: It looks like the pictures can be enlarged for better viewing in Jerboa but not on desktop. Weird.

Interesting. I pulled your .csv into a spreadsheet to tinker a bit (though I really should be sleeping right now). I’m not entirely sure what to do with it, but here are a few basic charts I threw together for kicks. Maybe someone more code savvy than me can create an interactive tool to sift through all the data.

Most subscribed communities across Lemmy:

Here’s a comparison of where the subscribers originate for two of the big technology communities. What are all those lemmy.world users doing subscribed to a Beehaw community? Maybe those are lemmy.world that had subscribed before Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world?

Oof, I’ve been watching the satellite imagery this summer and you guys have been getting hammered. I just checked the AQI map and you have me thoroughly beat right now for the title of worst air. Hang tight up there, and stay safe.

I think the excessive heat wave is part of what caused a bunch of the fires to start/spread. The number of hot spots visible on NASA’s daily satellite imagery exploded from August 14-16.

In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.

Without tipping their entirely hourly wage has to come out of what you pay for the meal. Thus the price of your meal will go up to make up for what they used to get in tips.