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Yeah, seems like too few words for an actual rant. Smoke bomb to distract from his ridiculous debate and to get that out of the news cycle

Seriously though, trying to understand a detail about how this all works (anyone free to answer). Does each additional user to a smaller instance indirectly help flesh out the available content on that user’s instance?

As in, more total users -> more total community/magazine subs by those users --> more federated content becomes visible to the instance’s newest joiners after that?

Unless I’m misunderstanding how it works. If that’s correct, then the benefit of each additional user would be most visible the fewer the instance’s current users, and then eventually level out as more users join and the most popular remote communities/magazines are subbed by local users.

I mention this because I’ve occasionally browsed other instances during brief outages on my home instance. At those times I noticed that while the default feeds (not logged in) across instances looked mostly the same, some of the smaller ones were missing some fun/interesting magazines that the others were showing.

P.S. I don’t think this was due to defederations but who knows.

“Screw this, it’s turning magenta here”

Hey! Not in my back yard!

Well there’s no way they didn’t know what to expect!

He’s one of the “smart ones”

But I want exactly one unit!

I read a while ago that humans probably have ants out-chonked since some time ago when we started gaining weight as a population.

Had to check back on this since that little factoid has stuck with me since reading it.

Per this journal from 2022, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201550119

Integrating data from all continents and major biomes, we conservatively estimate 20 × 1015 (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals and equals 20% of human biomass.

Because if there’s anything worth getting scientific about, it’s us vs the ant horde.

at least it’s not “moist”

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Commenting here due to the timing of the issue: looks like no new posts have come in from federated instances for about 3 hours?

We kit them out with a rat backpack

You mean, a rat-pack. C’mon, it was right there!

Fedia’s been great.

There are a handful of other choices, too: https://joinmbin.org/

Not an image I needed

Interesting that men’s basketball appears to have two nearly equal peaks in height distribution, with a noticeable dip in between.

Sorry, Sport. You can’t appoint them all.

Oh nice!