Most of your comments try to mix witty remarks based on the contents of the associated article in a way that reeks of AI.

When accounting for all defederations between all instances with at least 50 MAU (as of when I last checked in August, at least), the only instances that are defederated with over 5% of other Threadiverse users (inbound or outbound) are lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, fedinsfw.app, forum.guncadindex.social, and lemmy.1095.me, none of which are oriented towards the average user moving over from Reddit anyhow.

Less defederation on average is better, but defederation is not a huge problem as it stands, particularly if you pick an instance known to use it minimally such as lemmy/piefed.zip.

3D anime characters seem to be more of a novelty than anything, but I still think it’s a shame that the 3DS’s 3D feature didn’t get used in titles later in the console’s lifespan. Compared to the instability of it on the original 3DS, the New 3DS perfected it.

Reddit continues to be the biggest hurdle to Lemmy’s growth; the average person doesn’t care about how much private companies profit off of their personal data, so convincing them to leave the vastly bigger platform for Lemmy is a challenge.

Completely ignoring Reddit and its potential user migration opportunities would be dooming the Threadiverse to not gaining any new users from the most likely place those users would be.

If someone subscribes to a blocklist on a remote instance and that remote instance shuts down, would that blocklist still work (and just no longer get updates)?

According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.

More lies from Spez.

The change could also benefit Reddit’s advertising business by allowing it to serve more personalized ads

The actual reason.

Wall Street calls that an asset light strategy. Nvidia calls it demand. The thieves call it same day delivery.

That’s a very AI way of phrasing it.

Check my comment history and you’ll see that I’m a big fan of em dashes (typically to prevent run-on sentences, clarify a point, or where someone else might use parentheses, like this) but very anti-AI.

I’ve never generated anything in any of my comments with AI and I have no intention of doing so.

I didn’t use an AI to notice that? Just checked their past comments.

Reviewing @[email protected]’s comment history, they do appear to use ‘it’s not X, it’s Y’—something ChatGPT is known for—unusually often.

Yes; all content must be written from a neutral point of view.

I don’t like Fandom as a commercial platform any more than you do, but in-universe topics for niche fandoms simply don’t belong on Wikipedia; they would make it harder for editors to focus copyediting time on articles that matter far more to most people.

There are nonprofit wiki farm alternatives to Fandom that are a better solution to that problem.

Because an encyclopedia with millions of promotional articles would lose not only its objectivity, but also crater the standard of quality of the average Wikipedia article.

The Cebuano Wikipedia is the poster child of a project expanding beyond its scope: millions of articles generated by a bot with no one there to edit them after they’re created.

If non-notable articles were never deleted, millions of people and companies would create articles about themselves for promotion.

fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely with any other platform that is part of the group.

Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.

If it were a Wikipedia article, it would probably need some copyediting to give it a more encyclopedic tone along with in-line citations.

Those who think that generative AI is ‘conscious’ don’t understand that it can only do what it is trained on. It can produce impressive outputs only because it fuses together data taken without permission from millions of people, not because it’s intelligent or conscious in its own right.

For Mastodon it’s the number of users that have logged in within the past month, so I presume Lemmy also tracks it with logins.

Given that the MAU count is still on a slow decline, with over 90% of Lemmy.world users being inactive, I think it’s more of an indicator that MAU counts should be made more prominent in frontends rather than total users.

A feature that Piefed has that I wish Lemmy would implement too is URL filters; perhaps it could be added to the chart after ‘word filters’?

Arctic has a great frontend implementation of it with Regex support, but the app hasn’t been updated in a while.

Also, for simplicity perhaps the tables should have the more advanced information implemented with a visibility toggle? All of the information listed may overwhelm new users and leave an impression that the Fediverse is particularly complex.

The less competition there is in a market, the less incentive companies have to reduce their profit margins to gain market share. Antitrust legislation is typically used to ban cartels, but with so few market participants, the need to collaborate in fixing prices is lessened.