Thanks!

I tried Pixelfed (very briefly) not so long ago. I didn’t find a propper way to search for content. How do you discover new content?

How long would you say it took you before getting a fundamental understanding?

I would say years, as with any complex activity.

I’m still forgetting things I learned 3 or even 4 times like how to do a for each loop.

You can forget in 2 different ways:

1. Forget how to use something, so you need to look how to do it.
2. Forget that something exists, so you cannot even look for it because you are not aware it’s a possibility.

You will forget-1 everything which you don’t use on a daily basis. That’s what internet is for. Forgetting in the 2-nd sense is much more rare and you should do something if that’s the case.

all of it feels too advanced and I get lost on how to begin

This is a bias most of us have, you overlook how easy is for you to do things that previously were impossible and focus on how hard are the things you still don’t know how to do. And computing is so complex right now that there always be “infinite” things you don’t know.

Try showing what you know to someone who doesn’t know how to code and you will get an idea of how much you have learnt :).

Anyway, I don’t really have good advice :/, just wanted to confirm that what you feel is expected. Good luck!

I think you’re confusing “arbitrarily large” with “infinitely large”. See Wikipedia Arbitrarily large vs. (…) infinitely large

Furthermore, “arbitrarily large” also does not mean “infinitely large”. For example, although prime numbers can be arbitrarily large, an infinitely large prime number does not exist—since all prime numbers (as well as all other integers) are finite.

For integers I disagree (but I’m not a mathematician). The set of integers with infinite digits is the empty set, so AFAIK, it has probability 0.

Doesn’t it depends on whether we are talking about real or integer numbers?

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

I also think that’s correct… if we are talking about real numbers.

People are probably thinking about integers. I’m not sure about OP.

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

I’ve been hearing a lot about https://micro.blog recently. I haven’t tried it, or blogged in a long time.

AFAIK it supports ActivityPub.

I also found a post in one micro.blog with a few of alternatives:
TL;DR: Tumblr / Ghost / Blot / Mastodon / Write.as / Jekyll
https://book.micro.blog/alternative-platforms/
EDIT: Manton Reece is the founder and lead developer of micro.blog

A couple of tools to help finding the original sources:

• dessant/search-by-image: Browser extension for reverse image search
• SauceNAO’s “Image Search Options” addon: Firefox - Chrome
• Reverse image search engine URLs (replace XXX with the image URL):
  • Google: https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=XXXX
  • Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/searchbyimage?cbir=sbi&imgurl=XXXX
  • TinEye: https://www.tineye.com/search?url=XXXX
  • Yandex: https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=XXXX
  • SauceNAO: https://saucenao.com/search.php?url=XXXX

Also, thanks to @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de and @Stamets@startrek.website for the mentions :).

I watched the video yesterday and I couldn’t really understand what the plan is. What I got was something like “the corps are too big for the consumers to do anything and laws are very slow to made”.

Did I miss something about the “audacious(?)” plan?

The only working public generic mlmym instance I am aware is: https://o.opnxng.com/

From this gist by rystaf.

Direct links:

• https://postmarks.glitch.me/
• https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks

First Google result for the search Railway Oriented Programming in python:

• Agile & Coding: A Pythonic Railway?

Repository: DavidVujic/pythonic-railway: Experimenting with Railway oriented programming and Python

YouTube video (5min): David Vujic - A Pythonic Railway?

Which (if I understand correctly) is almost what Forth does. I’ve heard it described as “the only syntax in Forth are the blank characters” :).

twitch raids

INDEED, THANKS! I was sure this couldn’t really be something new but I couldn’t figure out any references.

Twitch raids are (almost, as you said) the perfect example.

a community should be able to indicate that they’re open to raids or not.

And another option would be to allow Raid Requests in sub…

Good food for thought, thanks.

maybe lemmy is different

My (100% speculative) theory is that lemmy/fediverse is too disperse for its size, a lot of very small communities with the exception of a very small number of successful ones.

If that’s the case, this could help with the “nucleation” of mid size communities in the short term.

I also find the experiment interesting and fun by itself. As said in the post, I don’t think anyone should post more that they like just for the sake of growth.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hoping from community to community is fun and easier than commiting to being a mod in one (or more), so thank you for that :).

but going past that (…) gets real obnoxious with how it saturates “all”.

I agree. My current strategy is to have list of 10-to-20-ish small communities I think can succeed and try to post to them every day or two.

I took a look and one of your communities is (since a couple of days ago) on that list: !gameart@sopuli.xyz

See you there!

Of course I could be wrong, but I don’t agree.

When people go to a community in which its last post was 2 weeks ago, it’s much less likely that they interact with that community (posting or commenting) than if the community has multiple posts per day. And that also affects the possibility that they come back in the next days. If you set the proper environment for enough users to interact and come back then, when the “campaign” ends, the level can be much greater than when it started.

I’m not saying that just posting a lot in a community for a few days guarantees it will grow after that, that’s not how communities work. What I’m saying is that it can work with different degrees of success. And, if done properly, it can be fun to try.