programming.dev changed how active users are calculated on their instance to include voters as well as posters & commentators. It’s a massive difference - programming_humor went from about 700 monthly active users to about 7000, for example.

Viewing communities from other instances from programming.dev’s perspective will give a figure that includes voting activity.

Stats for Programmer Humour:

2023-11-24: 0.00% programmer_humor@programming.dev 824 Active Users
2023-11-25: -0.04% programmer_humor@programming.dev 818 Active Users
2023-11-26: -2.15% programmer_humor@programming.dev 776 Active Users
2023-11-27: -0.32% programmer_humor@programming.dev 760 Active Users
2023-11-28: 58432.75% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7424 Active Users
2023-11-29: 4.51% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7607 Active Users
2023-11-30: 8.68% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7864 Active Users

28/11 is when they changed how active users are counted on programming.dev. That 54K percent increase will continue to effect the 7 day average for the next few days.

I don’t know much about federation issues with programming.dev, but I think the reason why there’s so many results from that instance is they’ve changed how active users are calculated for their communities. Instead of it being just users who post and comment, it’s now users who post, comment or vote on anything.

I saw a post about it yesterday (in their Meta community I think), and wondered how it would affect these lists. I’ll have to see what it’s like in the coming days (that instance will seem way more active than every other instance, but each community’s activity growth should stabilise, hopefully)

Nothing on here should really be abandoned: if it seems so, it’s usually either for language reasons, or because your instance’s copy of a community isn’t (yet) showing everything that’s on the original. I often look at the original (i.e instance/c/community, not myinstance/c/community@instance) to determine what’s going on.

Crawler at lemmyverse has been failing for the past few days, so today’s results are over a wider gap than normal

“So, what’s it like being married to a Sith Lord?”
“Well, you know, it has its ups and downs”

I hope so. But maybe don’t ask an AI to depict it, it could be horrifying.

Looks tranquil (the lack of any legs has never bothered any other Star Wars character before)

Oh right, so contrary to my comment the other day: feddit.uk aren’t changing - it looks like a group of people got financially and emotionally invested in creating a new instance, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath them by the return of the original admin.

DALL-E 3PO has made Bob Ross scarier than Darth Vader, lol.

Image taken from the latest video by Auralnauts on YT: https://inv.us.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=JIUY24Zc5hw (it’s a fun watch)

Same YouTuber: Obi-Wan gets rejected:
https://inv.us.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=3eiHHsvDPAQ

It’s not important. I made three posts, playing with the idea of replacing TIME with TIMM (a character from Andor), 'cos there’s a TV show called TIME, which lasted for three episodes (the same length of time that TIMM did, haha). Anyway, I found a poster for a poor-quality looking film called DEADTIME, and tried to make it about Timm (who, as mentioned, is well dead).

Oh yeah, I know. I’m just messing around, getting a silly idea out of my head.

I think everyone using Boost currently has that issue, but I found a post: https://lemmy.world/post/6738630 over at !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world that says it’ll be fixed for the next version.

Looks like feddit.uk members are taking the drastic step of starting up a new instance under a new domain, since nobody has been able to contact their admin recently.

So if there’s a sizeable migration, we’ll likely see the effects here (e.g. new communities growing by a 1000%)

How Forced Prison Labour may well be the Key to Success for your Next Project

The lack of proper pockets in lady clothes was really the main thing that held Leia back

Oh, well it was ‘Blue Onion Wednesday’, the tag for posts that were following this Wednesday’s theme of mashing up Star Wars images with headlines from The Onion.

Wednesday’s over by UTC o’clock, so the post announcing it is un-stickied now.

The original article from The Onion