• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
      10·
      1 year ago

      Tbf, depending on the region, that’s just how the electricity is made. The fbxl network runs off of electricity generation made up of 86% hydroelectric and biomass, with the balance made up of wind, solar, and natural gas.

      As I have repeatedly repeatedly said, with a geography of canada, the entire country could be 100% renewables in a decade or two if there was a real focus on hydroelectric generation that is presently powering entire regions, and it would make people’s lives better in the process with plentiful inexpensive hydroelectric we would make electric heat the most competitive and thus would start offsetting burning fossil fuels for building heat which would have a massive impact on carbon emissions since buildings make up 25% of total emissions and most building heat is done with fossil fuels because electricity is too expensive and the costs are rising so people are migrating to fossil fuels even with the carbon tax…

      But I digress…

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If it were hosted in Nova Scotia half of its power would come from coal. So I don’t take it for granted

    • thefool@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also two good reasons for me as well.

      It’s strange that it doesn’t report a Canadian flag on the graphic in the post heading though. Looks like Netherlands?

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
    1292·
    1 year ago

    goddammit

    i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)

    i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed

    • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      145·
      1 year ago

      Most of the times that i see this meme is always censured, they usually take out the part where the woman gets gropped. While i understeand why someone wouldnt whant to share something that contains sexuall harasment, i think its a little silly and very curious how its users self-censored themselvels with this meme, it its very unussual to find it like this in the wild.

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        In this version of the meme she’s actually from an alien culture where it’s considered rude not to kiss someone and squeeze their butt after accepting a medal. Their version of “bless you” after a sneeze.

        I swear to god it’s in the show somewhere look it up.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        If they ever defederate from piracy communities, yeah, but I don’t think so, admin has a very anti defederate policy, so I see this scenario very hard to occur.

        • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Oh, I don’t really care about piracy communities. I meant on the basis of it getting big.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    1 year ago

    This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn’t have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn’t accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it’ll look just like they are open, but we’ll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.

    I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.

    Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it’s actually hosted in Finland.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    402·
    1 year ago

    I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.

    • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      70·
      1 year ago

      Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

      Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

    • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      512·
      1 year ago

      why do people choose it over other instances?

      Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

      • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
        457·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. Looking at the admin’s profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

        “Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.”

          • Nowyn@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            History fits the majority of Eastern European countries but yes as said they are Estonian. Actually, now that I think about it can’t really think of any Eastern European countries that it doesn’t fit at all.

            • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Eastern Europe had finally just stabilized a little bit it looked like. They’ve consistently gotten the short end of the stick from the superpowers in the region using their territory for war.

              Hopefully after Ukraine is over (with Ukraine keeping all their land) there will be some stability in the region again

              • Nowyn@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Living next to Russia has never been easy. Living between Russia and Western powers has been worse. I’m Finnish and while we have not really seen ourselves as Eastern Europeans for a long time, we are. Just got lucky past century.

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Noooooooooooo. Don’t get too big or that’ll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        54·
        1 year ago

        I see only two ways for this to stop happening:

        • Instance admins make a collective pact to close registrations if their instance reaches x% of the total active base, and only open again when this number goes down to x/2%. I think x=10 would be a good start.

        • Instead of donations, instances start charging for access after a certain number. This is what my instance is doing: the first 250 active users are free, after that payment is required.

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    They should probably add a % measure to that to show active users as a % of total users to give a more balanced look at active instances

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      What is felt by users is the absolute number rather than the proportion.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Because when you open and later refresh Lemmy, the quantity of new posts you will see, which gives an idea of Lemmy’s activity, is proportional to the absolute number of active users, not the proportion of active users per instance.

          • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            By why not both, I meant why not display both the number of users and the proportion of the total userbase. This does not seem to be an answer to that question.

            • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I thought you asked why wouldn’t both be felt by users. Otherwise, sure both can be displayed, the proportion gives an idea of the dynamic of a community.

  • RickRussell_CA@kbin.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    Oh goody. There’s a [email protected] and it’s not me. And it’s using one of my older profile pictures.

    EDIT: 2023/8/29 update – I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!

    • ieightpi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Uhhhhh. Yeah this was always something I was worried about with multiple instances. Having multiple usernames run my different people. The @ at the end will be crucial for people keep them separate

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      That’s why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.

    • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate

      • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        You are the only user with the username Efwis@lemmy.zip. Nobody else can have that username.

        • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds