The 100% fake enthusiasm, especially if it comes after buying a mediocre product.

The annoying corporate speak.

The bad voice over where lipsyncing is completely gone, this is mostly a thing of the past here in Sweden, but from time to time you get ads from companies launching a product across europe and only record one video to the ad and then translate and do a new voiceover for specific languages as needed, but fail to sync the audio with the video.

Annoying music, for months now a company has been pushing their financial services withe the same terrible ad that is a slideshow and an increadibly annoying music, there is no person talking, they just have a fast tempo music track. I have vowed to never buy anything from them because their ad sucks and is annoying.

Reusing ads, sometimes a company buys almost all ad slots on YT over months and reuse their one ad video so it is completely grating.

Self-righteousness, some ads go from being overly enthusiastic to being intolerably self-righteous. There was a new clinic chain of companies that started a big push a few years ago on yt and for several months you had to listen to an overly kind and happy grandmother wearing a company branded sweater, faking a hearty laugh and telling people to go to their clinic.

I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.

This was back in the early 2000s…

Handbrake is what I have used for video conversion over the last decade.

It is free and open source.

My experience mostly comes from ripping DVDs which it does an excellent job of.

The nVidia GT series are cheap, the 710 series are the cheapest new cards that I have found.

On the very end of the graph you can see it sort of beginning to stabalize, there was even a small uptick in the second to last point, and sure, the last point shows a small decrease again.

My point is that it is too early to call out for danger regarding mastodon, that is too alarmist and may scare new users from the platform, speeding up the end of Mastodon.

So untill we have a period of time without surges it is hard to determine user growth

You are absolutely right that I am refering to the Gartner cycle.

It doesn’t fit exactly, but the general pattern fit very well with the first half.

The Mastodon graph just happens to have two hype sections.

The slopes you meassure are still tied to the preceeding surges, so I can’t treat them as any indication of success/failure.

To me it kinda looks like we are in the trough of disillusionment, which is a normal period of any new tech/system.

With improvements to the network we soon hit the slope of enlightenment.

I disagree with your and the author’s conclusions.

I have made my own long comment about it in thread, so here I am going to focus on your chart.

First, I will accept the data of the chart at face value, it seems resonably accurate and I don’t have any other data to work off of.

My point is that you are interpreting it wrong.

To me the declining slopes after the sruges are not relevant to any long term conclusions, they follow a highly predictable curve and doesn’t mean much.

If you look at the end of the graphs you can even see it growing slightly, that is obviously not evidence of anything yet, but to me it is an indication of either a start of another surge, or stability.

I believe you are too quick at spreading doom for Mastodon, give it half a year and look at the stats then, we won’t see a meteoric rise of active users any time soon, just accept it and work with more realistic expectations.

Mastodon is not struggling.

1. Mastodon is not a single entity, if mastodon.art dies tomorrow I would just create a new Mastodon profile on another instance.
2. Yeah, Mastodon use surged in 2022 and 2023, and yeah most users didn’t stay around, but compared to the numbers before 2022, Mastodon has s big bump of new users.

Looking at two surges of new users seeing the vast majority not stick around and missing that a sizable chunk still stayed is missing the point.

This article would never have been written if the user increase didn’t have temporary surges, that result would be the same number of users, but less brand recognition.

Mastodon is also not driven by the same kind of metrics as a centralized system, plenty of people can just run their own instance just for the fun of it, they don’t need constant growth.

So calm down, and take it slow.

Don’t sell Mastodon short.

Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.

To be honest, I mostly made the comment as a joke.

But if you like them, check them out, however know that Fluxbox will not support Wayland, you need to look at Waybox for that.

I have no idea about is WindowMaker supporrs Wayland.

Yeah, but it is something.

Window Maker or Fluxbox

Stop spamming please.

To the admins, you might want to block this instance, urweibo.com

Back in the summer I had been to the shops, done my shopping and sat in my car downloading podcasts to have easier access to them on carplay, when a 10-12 year old girl opened the backdoor on my car.

I just said “wrong car” to her, she looked shocked, closed the door and walked to her mom standing by a nearly idendical Seat Leon, just a few parking spots further down.

Outside of my brain and body?

Probably my mobile phone

Ah, good old linear TV!

Nah, I host it on a web hotel.

I am using a very generic ISP and they tend to have a dim view of running servers on their network.

I did have an RPi running SSH and a Mumble server directly connected to the internet years ago, but after a few years I realized that I was bringing needless attention to my network when I found my server on Shodan.

So I took it down…

Eh, I get what you mean but I disagree.

That is sort of saying that if someone want to learn Swedish, but since they don’t know any Swedish, it is better to start them on Norweigan first.

If UFW had used a similar syntax to that of iptables, then it would be a decent way of doing it, but in this example I disagree with you

I just hate the comic style that is used in presentations like this, it is just too cutsey, and I can’t take it seriously