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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I believe so. Whenever I have a problem, I look for an answer in the following order: search engine > reading a forum post > documentation > writing a forum post. I usually don’t work on bleeding-edge software, so somebody probably has already asked my question and received an answer too. If it hasn’t explicitly been asked yet, it might have already been answered in the documentation. Furthermore, as you said, Stack Overflow would much sooner delete your post for being a duplicate of a 21-year-old post than provide an answer to your question. There are other (and sometimes newer) tools out there that can provide the same answer without putting up so much resistance to you simply attempting to use them. If they want their traffic back, they could start there, instead of “rebranding”.






  • I couldn’t find a pie chart, but this list should suffice. lemmy.world has as many active users as the five next largest instances. I don’t think that you can make such a binary decision of “decentralization”, but it’s clear that they hold a good chunk of the active users.

    My last comment was meant to be sarcastic, but I suppose that I didn’t make that very clear. I just find it rather annoying when new lemmings are steered directly to lemmy.world while hand-wringing about federation being too hard. It really isn’t.