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That helped a lot. Thanks.

So its sort of like dnd but with nations instead of characters. Sounds fun. Feel free to ping me if/when you get a game going.

That was semi helpful, but I still don’t quite get the gameplay.

A player picks a nation and then describe the nations actions for the turn (an in game month?, does it also last a month in real life?). The actions can be anything (?) and they just work 100%?

What happens when two player nations have competing actions?

I’m subscribed to it, so I don’t think that’s the issue. But interesting that it is federating to other instances.

Its not clear to me what this type of game would look like, play like. Can you link to an example of the gameplay?

Already exists and works (or at least did work). Check out: !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

That channel was posting to the threadiverse up until a month ago. There are newer videos on it’s peertube channel, so not sure what happened, but it was working.

Edit: fixed community name/link.

If there’s already a community, it might be worth posting there and then crossposting here to build up that community.

They may have blocked URL posts in the community.

Quick look at the specific community, it seems like the links could only be in the text and not as a URL link, but that could be wrong.

If that doesn’t work, probably worth reaching out to the community mod.

My understanding is if you don’t have a link, you should be selecting text/discussion post (doesn’t ask for a URL). Not on Lemmy so I can’t confirm that’s correct, but that’s how it works on Piefed.

My understanding of the political landscape of specific instances is:

• Neo-liberal: Lemmy.world, Piefed.social (maybe)
• Marx-Leninist (ML): Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net
• Anarchist: Lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus

Everything else is pretty unaligned. However, ~50% of users are on those instances.

That was super cool (especially the wicks). Thanks for sharing.

I may have to try the bottle growing setup.

Good to know. Might reschedule a weekly post to then. Thanks :)

!fedilytics@piefed.zip (https://piefed.zip/c/fedilytics@piefed.zip) was the top growing community by percentage last week, so that’s good (https://threadiverse.link/piefed.zip/c/fedilytics@piefed.zip/p/1553847/community-growth-26-6-5 ; https://piefed.zip/c/fedilytics@piefed.zip/p/1553847/community-growth-26-6-5).

A post yesterday morning was a dud though. Seems Sunday Morning is not the best day/time to post.

In other, semi related news, I found a different instance api (/site) that gives more info than I was getting (/node). So my instance analytic posts are going to have more info in the future. Just need to integrate the changes and figure what would be interesting to analyze in the new data (perhaps users per day of the week).

Edit: fixed autocorrect change.

Haha. I know the feeling. If you want to feel it worse, go to fediverse-observer site and look at all the Fediverse platforms/software (like 150+).

I just looked into and it seems Mbin communities/magazines do federate to the rest of the Threadiverse. So you can interact with their communities (they don’t have many though). The 3rd wheel bit you may be alluding to is interaction with Mastodon. It seems Mastodon has some federation with the Threadiverse, but to my knowledge Piefed and Lemmy users can’t interact with Mastodon users on Mastodon (only if the Mastodon user post/comment in the Threadiverse).

I’ve heard Pixelfed is closer to Instagram, but I don’t use any of the three to know for sure.

Yeah, Peertube is like YT. Some channels have federated with the Threadiverse (ex. TheLinuxChannel).

NodeBB also has some federation onto the Threadiverse. I’ve seen maybe two different forums show up and they seemed to be different Fediverse devs posting and commenting.

Upvoted, because I think it’s unknown, so unpopular. Though it sound like a good idea to me.

I’m curious to hear any drawbacks others find.

That was a very interesting post. Thanks for sharing :)

Slowly building !fedilytics@piefed.zip

Got a few posts that will be weekly. Not sure how big it can expand as the posts already cover community (cross post), instance, and software levels. Who knows, maybe something else will come up that can be analyzed.

Worthwhile post, wrong community.

Not sure. It went from ~3k MAU to ~16k MAU over the past 30 days.

Could have been a major influx of new users or a new set of major servers were detected and added to the total.

Looking at the server breakdown of MAUs, it looks like 15 of the 16k are all on one server. So doesn’t seem like a new big server jumped in.

But 6 weeks ago they were at ~13k.

The largest server had ~8k MAU then ~3k (last month) and now ~15k. I’m not sure how that happens. Server instability maybe?

I may have misunderstood your comment.

If you’re asking what the downsides of not using “feeling” language is, from my perspective, when a comment is just stated, the statement comes across as a statement of fact, rather than someone’s understanding.

Someone’s understanding of something is not always fact and by lowering the statement from a ‘fact’ to an ‘understanding’ it lowers the temperature when information counter to someone’s understanding is presented.

My experience, is that it also helps start a dialogue. Example:

Person 1: “My understanding is that the government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “I hadn’t heard that. My understanding is that homes are heated with building heaters. Can you provide me with a source to look more into the lasers you described?”

Versus: Person 1: “The government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “You’re wrong. Homes are heated with internal heaters. Where did you hear that?”

From my perspective, the first exchange is more amicable and the second more contentious and more likely to lead to insults rather than a constructive conversation.

Edit: spelling.