Still useful to post though, it’s a decent simple over view that can be shared elsewhere

Twitter is the first time a global social media giant has seen a major exodus (I guess the second if you count MySpace, but the reasons were pretty different). The sample size is very low… It’s easy to forget how new all of this is.

Why are you on Lemmy? Or, why do you think the decentralised model works here, but not on mastodon?

Or is it only working because there is no third party VC-backed reddit clone?

I don’t think anyone is claiming technical superiority. And certainly not financial superiority.

But maybe some kind of resilience to the forces of destruction plaguing commercial social media.

Awesome, thanks!

Hey Mods, any chance you could add some links to some.of the communities mentioned here to the sidebar?

@Akhuyan@lemmy.world @technopagan@lemmy.world @Imotali@lemmy.world @Maggoty@lemmy.world

I’m happy to help mod, if you like, sure :)

Dr. Who for me

Not quite the same thing, but that looks very complimentary, thanks!

I think a “suggest a community” community could help prevent some dead communities before they happen. I made a separate post to discuss it: https://lemmy.world/post/27963154

There are already a couple of communities (almost) along those lines. Would be great if the mods here could add them to the sidebar here.

Makes sense. It would be good if the mods added links between them to each community’s sidebar.

Yeah, that’s basically the idea. I have actually seen that before, now that you point it out, but I didn’t find it when searching, because “desired” is a kind of unusual word in this context (at least for me). I wonder if you could add “suggestions for new communities” or something like that to the title?

Also, do you expect the suggested communities be implemented on hilariouschaos.com, or are you up for them being hosted on any server?

It’s riffing off a Canadian/US telephone directory. Agreed, not a universally useful name…

That seems like a related, but different thing. More like a community search?

Also the name is meaningless outside Canada, so not that easy to find for the rest of us…

edit, sorry Canada and the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)

That seems much more like this community, !newcommunities@lemmy.world …

Zipf’s law is just a specific example of a power law. Other power laws exist for lots of different things, just with different exponents.

the jury seems out about cities. This paper suggests they don’t follow a other distributions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275124002592 , but this one suggests that they do: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2013/12/on-city-size-distribution_g17a2442/5k3tt100wf7j-en.pdf - specifically it suggests they DO follow Zipf’s law, within a given country. Inter-country differences are likely due to different developmental trajectories over time.

Looks like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

Are there open bugs/feature requests about it?

You can type the hashtag in the URL on the web, and follow it from there.

E.g. https://pixelfed.social/i/web/hashtag/urbanSketching

I wonder if they would be interested in implementing ActivityPub?