https://ourrevolution.com/

The people pressuring Schumer andJeffries are:

• Indivisible: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
• MoveOn: https://www.mobilize.us/moveon/

See: [email protected]

I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!

Say, are you saying that it’s possible to take an existing Mastodon post, and post it into Lemmy? If so can you pliz point me to someplace that says how to do that? So far I’ve only seen this guide: https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1467-8270-7e3d-48d984455929 and it only says how to crosspost a new Mastodon post, not an existing Mastodon post.

The article seems well-written, except that:

the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we’re like “and others” lel… I guess they didn’t mention Pixelfed either tho and it’s a lot “hotter”…

depressed/self-loathing people dating each other is a really bad idea and results in shitty relationships and emotional turmoil

I see what you’re getting at here… but sometimes instead it results in going to couples therapy and figuring out the roots of your problem and talking to a psychiatrist for medications, etc.

Truly, we have left the era of irony and entered the era of farce.

I think what they’re getting at is this is clearly a simple script doing template generation: (1) statement of praise (2) statement of encouragement/thanks (3) a couple emoji. The sentences that are used to populate the templates might be LLM-generated, but these aren’t state-of-the-art neural network "AI"s.

Apple Maps currently shows it as Gulf of Mexico, fwiw.

From the title “Junior Video Editor” and your description of the salary you proposed it sounds like this is an entry-level job that’ll probably go to someone fresh out of school.

It’s hard to read too much into it because this might just be a form letter, but it sounds like they genuinely thought you were a good candidate but they were looking for a more junior position. Sometimes this is dictated by their budget available.

Even if this is a form letter, they probably have a letter for the case where the salary was OK but they never want to hear from the candidate again. So you didn’t get that letter, at least!

It looks like this was a “near miss”. It’s discouraging, but keep at it, you can do it.

Solution: don’t look at news communities. Only subscribe to communities without news, politics, or tech…

A significant chunk of people on here seem extremely depressed.

Wait… are we just gonna let this pass? Not sure how to feel about this…

the more popular places on the Fediverse seem to be stagnating right now

Dunno, from Fediverse Observer, it looks like lemmy and mastodon are growing slowly over the last couple weeks. (the mastodon stats look a little weird tho – there’s a plummet on Jan 30th that looks like a data collection artifact.)

Excellent point, do you happen to know where I can find longer-term usage data?

I dunno… it’s like the difference between a chain restaurant and your favorite local cafe/pub/diner. The chain restaurant has its benefits, but you have the best interactions with your buddies at your local cafe/pub/diner.

user retention

yeah, hard to tell… Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now… if pixelfed peaks at 300k it’s reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).

ofc every situation is different… e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count…

you can use kbin.earth (and presumably mbin?) to see the upvotes, even if you don’t have an account there. e.g.:

https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/907175/Mod-of-a-similar-comm-deleted-my-advertising-post-now/favourites

(edit: you may need to copy-paste the link; the web interface has problems with it. downvotes are not publicly viewable there.)

Just say “the reddit-like corner of the fediverse, such as discuss.online” to avoid their keyword bots. (edit: oops I just read “discuss.online” is now on their keyword bots)