Engage with communities here. The politics and tech communities are lively enough, but niche communities are lacking. Give people a reason to come here who aren’t politics/tech junkies.

Best time to start was DEFINITELY yesterday.

But the second-best time to start is still today. We have the advantage of being up against incompetents. That might buy us enough time to save ourselves. Might. But we won’t know unless we fight for it.

Explanation: The Praetorian Guard were a formation of soldiers/secret police used to guard the Emperor (amongst other bodyguards - Emperors needed bodyguards to guard against their bodyguards, lmao). They’ve acquired a reputation in the modern day, not incorrectly, for being quick to turn on Emperors and swap sides during civil wars.

‘Praetorians’ are also a formation of troops in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. They’re much more British-colonial inspired, and have futuristic weapons. Whichever Emperor got these fellows will probably last a bit longer than with the other kind of praetorian!

Probably also libright.

‘standing army’ is just a bunch of literal mercenaries

merchants rule, peasants drool

mega-decentralized

NAP the only thing keeping the peace between Elector Counts

Going to new, or staying on hot?

Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.

dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

.world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.

It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.

Users about halved in the ~3 months after the initial exile. It’s increased since then, but not yet to the point that it was at during the initial exodus.

Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

Lemmy is a very small audience at present.

At least you can tell by which one has an unhealthy obsession with ancient possibly-heretical archeotech.

… right…?

When I was a kid in the early-mid 2000s, knocking on the door was always a daunting prospect - people sitting out on their porch or steps were much more approachable, and much more the norm.

Trump is one problem in a world full of problems, but goddamn will it feel good to be rid of him all the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_He_Who_Is_Without_Sin…

100% accurate, no English castle was complete without its Mot

I don’t think you really mean that, sweetheart. :)

“She’s never stated” to “Well she doesn’t REALLY mean it” lmao

Given Harris has never and has stated she will never call for a permanent ceasefire, I have no idea where you think your gotcha moment is here.

Do you people even try, or is honesty against the terms of your religion or something?

Oh yes, just like I’m sure she was being completely sincere when she said all Biden had to do to earn her vote was ‘call for a ceasefire’ within the coming year.

Turns out when MLs don’t say a single thing in good faith, people start remembering and stop taking them seriously. :)

“Marxism is when you make false claims about genocide in order to make a false equivocation between literal fascists and liberals, because to you both of those things are exactly the same.”