Well that’s a bit uncouth.

c/nocontext

TIL

It’s about £1.30 for a branded loaf of wholemeal. You can get an own brand which is nearly as good for about 70p.

Where are you from where it’s costing that much?

Such projects desperately need some professional UX/UI people involved. They always feel like they’re designed by back-end devs.

I also can’t imagine there being any difference to the instances as the concept of “local” doesn’t really make sense like it does with Lemmy. Maybe they should obfuscate the instance selection and the sign up process just puts you onto a random instance or one that’s best suited by geographical location.

Aye of course, just poking fun that it’s not always free from the same bullshit here too!

Lemmy.ml: Comment removed for rule 1. Banned from all communities.

That’s weird, why would you want to see other fediverse content in Pixelfed? Surely it should be all Pixelfed content like op expects.

Oh okay. Though you said “I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?”, and wanted to point out that Blaze has already done that work, which culminated in the list of those instances (discuss.online and sopuli.xyz)

Yeah fair enough, I didn’t know !Blaze@feddit.org had done that before I commented. My only feedback is that I don’t think they need to be categorised as “for Americans” and “for Europeans” - more like “here’s a couple of great, healthy general purpose instances to get your feet wet in Lemmy - don’t worry, you’re not restricted to just those servers, you can vote, comment and subscribe to communities across Lemmy!”

Whilst we’re on this topic of “sign-up friction” - here’s a good example of some struggles that “regular” people face - it’s about Pixelfed but I think the same logic applies:

Just installed it, clicked “Login” and I have to pick a server? Why do these new apps trying to replace Insta/Twitter/etc all have this without an explanation for people who don’t know what they’re selecting?

Does it matter what you pick? Are you “locked in” to a server? Do you only see the posts of people within the same server? Does everyone else see what server I choose? Can the servers shut down, leaving users stranded?

There needs to be a better intro for these decentralized services if they want more people to adopt. 99% of us want to click Sign Up, make a username/password and be in. Adding extra steps creates frustration which leads to just not finishing signup and loading up Instagram instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i0m5ub/meta_is_blocking_links_to_decentralized_instagram/m70et23/

Am I missing something though: what are users worried about in terms of fragmentation that applies to Lemmy?

I think it’s that they don’t know ANYTHING about it, other than it’s a bunch of different servers that seem to operate independently. So they have no idea how the whole thing operates. I’ve been on Lemmy for about 18 months and I don’t know how the federation works for Mastodon or Friendica - I actually looked up Friendica the other day but just gave up after looking at the list of instances. I don’t know what it means to use a specific instance for Friendica, even though I know what it means for Lemmy. These people won’t know what it means at all.

https://sopuli.xyz/ if you’re European

Out of curiosity, how come you don’t recommend your own instance, feddit.org?

I think the main concern new users have are “Can I see everything across Lemmy, or will I be getting a fragmented experience?”. This was my initial concern and I’ve seen Redditors also voice this concern. People don’t know if being on an instance means you can only be isolated to that instance, which would mean missing out on wider content, or whether you see everything (at which point you might ask what is the point of the instances then?).

By presenting people with “here’s an instance if you’re American, here’s another if you’re European” might support the idea that people will get differenct experiences based on their location. They might ask: “Do Americans see different content to Europeans? What’s the difference? Maybe the American instance will have more users so I’ll pick that instead.”

In reality it doesn’t matter, you can sign up to an instance and subscribe to 0 communities on your own instance, but people don’t know this if they don’t know anything about it. I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?

• How many instances they’ve defederated from - the bigger the number the more it negatively affects the score
• How many admins it has - instances with 1 admin should not be recommended at all
• Availability - probably don’t want to recommend instances with poor uptime
• Theme - more general purpose instances would score higher, while instances with a specific focus would score lower

It would be good if the join-lemmy site could randomly create you an account on one of the instances that qualify. Take that cognitive load away from the user and make that choice for them - and make it clear that they’re free to sign up to any instance they want.

You need to use tags on your resources if you want to get a better breakdown of what your more specific resources are costing you.

You can filter by tags in cost explorer.

Linux -> penguins -> cold -> snow

Makes sense.

A high of 66 though definitely sounds like an issue!

Santa wakes up and is like “Dude, where’s my sleigh?”

He knows if you’ve been subscribed to Amazon prime or not.

We did but you could have a certain number of people over on Christmas. It then got much stricter just after Christmas.

It absolutely definitely happened in the UK. Not on Christmas day but not long after.

Given the England flag in their name I’m guessing the UK.

I don’t think we had any social distancing restrictions during any Christmas but some did come into effect shortly after, I don’t think people were allowed to visit. I remember us having a new year’s party with our neighbours in the back garden, technically them not allowed to go into our house and having to stay 2 metres from them. Must have been December 2020.

They sound fucking delicious. Mackie’s ice cream is top tier too.

Same. I don’t know why people keep trying to use the email example, personally I found it too much of an abstract concept that doesn’t necessarily work for Lemmy.

If I knew someone used Reddit then I’d just say it’s like Reddit but instead of a single authority in charge of Reddit, anyone can take the Reddit software and host it themselves, and if you create an account on one site you can still subscribe to subreddits on other sites and vote and comment on posts.