For transparens laver jeg hver måned et indlæg om Feddit.dks finanser og andet af relevans. Og sikke en måned det har været!

I februar måned modtog Feddit.dk 382 kroner i donationer fra et par anonyme donorer. Tak for det 🙂.

De 382 kroner dækker ikke de månedlige udgifter på 426 kroner. Derved er kassebeholdningen faldet til 7778 kroner hvilket giver en “runway” på lidt over 18 måneder.

Man kan donere til Feddit.dk gennem Liberapay (https://da.liberapay.com/Feddit.dk/). Man er også meget velkommen til at støtte Feddit.dk ved at være en aktiv bruger og/eller fortælle andre om siden. Især det at fortælle andre om Feddit.dk er vigtigt for at få flere brugere, da vi ikke kører nogen reklamer - den eneste måde andre kan opdage siden er gennem jer!

Velkommen til alle de nye!

Sidste måned fortalte jeg at vi havde fået 12 nye brugere i januar.

I februar måned har vi godkendt 151 nye brugere! Vi har ikke set sådan en stigning siden den første bølge af brugere kom i 2023 da Reddit lukkede for deres API-adgang.

For to måneder siden havde Feddit.dk cirka 95 aktive månedlige brugere. I dag ligger den på cirka 196! Vi er altså godt og vel fordoblet på et par måneder.

Det tal dækker også kun over lokale brugere. Hvis man ser på det totale antal af månedlige aktive brugere i !fedditdk@feddit.dk og !nyheder@feddit.dk ligger det på henholdsvis 257 og 301! Som @VonReposti@feddit.dk også pointerede for en uge siden nåede !fedditdk@feddit.dk op på mere end 1000 følgere!

Hvis man ser på ugebasis var der faktisk flere aktive brugere i sidste uge end der nogensinde har været før!

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De fleste af disse brugere kommer fra /r/Denmark på Reddit hvor Feddit.dk er blevet nævnt i forskellige tråde i forbindelse med det boykot af amerikanske varer og tjenester der foregår lige nu. Der var ligefrem en sød bruger der lavede et indlæg om Feddit.dk den anden dag! Der er også kommet en del brugere andre steder fra. Igen, det er vigtigt at sige at vi ikke kører nogen reklamer for Feddit.dk og den eneste måde folk kan finde siden eller fediverset generelt er hvis de får det fortalt fra andre mennesker som jer.

Nå, nok tal. Det handler jo egentlig om menneskerne og dem vil jeg gerne byde rigtig hjertelig velkommen og jeg håber at i vil hygge jer og hjælpe med at gøre Feddit.dk et fedt sted at være. Folk har været så flinke indtil videre at vi kun sjældent har været nødt til at træde ind i rollen som moderatorer, og det så jeg gerne fortsatte. Husk at følge Feddit.dks regler og husk at læse reglerne i hvert fællesskab, så skal det nok blive godt :)

Som altid kan man stille spørgsmål ved at skrive i kommentarerne eller i privatbesked.

Please, put the pitchforks and torches down. Hear me out.

You (yes, you!) are a front-runner. You are a first-mover. You came to the fediverse while most people don't even know it's a thing.

In the last couple of weeks/months, there's been an increasing sentiment to boycott the established social media (Facebook, Xitter, Reddit, etc.), due to their rollback of fact-checking and hate speech protection. This has resulted in a lot of new users for a lot of instances lately.

Feddit.dk has gotten over 50 new users in the past few weeks, which is about a +50% increase of the monthly active users, a big deal for a small instance like ours.

This is a great opportunity to teach others about the fediverse and get more people to move to a more democratic, sustainable internet. But all these potential users are still on the corporate social media - we can't reach them unless we are there!

You, the first-mover, is exactly the kind of person we need to stay on Facebook, just for a while, to guide people over to the fediverse. Feddit.dk was actually posted in a Facebook group a few weeks back and we got a few users that way! We've also gotten a lot of users via Reddit recently, as people on /r/Denmark have been mentioning Feddit.dk. Guiding people from corporate social media to the fediverse has been the most successful way to get more users so far.

We can't get second-movers if the first-movers leave everyone behind. So maybe, consider not deleting your Facebook or Reddit account just yet, and if you don't, try to look out for people that are looking for alternatives. You can be their guide.

(and if you want to delete Facebook regardless, I totally respect that choice btw)

I recently discovered an interesting (and somewhat disappointing, as we'll find later) fact. It may surprise you to hear that the two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance (that I could find at least) are both on Feddit.dk and are quite significantly higher than the next top comments.

The comments in question are:

1. This one from @bstix@feddit.dk with a whopping 3661 upvotes.
2. This one from @TDCN@feddit.dk with 1481 upvotes.

These upvote counts seems strange when you view them in relation to the post - both of the comments appear in posts that do not even have 300 upvotes.

Furthermore, if you go on any instance other than Feddit.dk and sort for the highest upvoted comments of all time, you will not find these comments (you'll likely instead find this one from @Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone).

Indeed, if you view the comments from another instance (here and here), you will see a much more "normal" upvote count: A modest 132 upvotes and a mere 17 upvotes, respectively.

What's going on?

Well, the answer is Mastodon. Both of these comments somehow did very well in the Mastodon microblogging sphere. I checked my database and indeed, the first one has 3467 upvotes from Mastodon instances and the second one has 1442 upvotes from Mastodon instances.

Notice how both comments, despite being comments on another post, sound quite okay as posts in their own right. A Mastodon user stumbling upon one of these comments could easily assume that it is just another fully independent "toot" (Mastodon's equivalent of tweet).

Someone from Mastodon must have "boosted" (retweeted) the comments and from there the ball started rolling - more and more people boosted, sharing the comments with their followers and more and more people favorited it. The favorites are Mastodon's upvote equivalent and this is understood by Lemmy, so the upvote count on Lemmy also goes up.

Okay, so these comments got hugely popular on Mastodon (actually I don't know if 3.4k upvotes is unusual on Mastodon with their scale but whatever), but why is there this discrepancy between the Lemmy instances then? Why is it only on Feddit.dk that the extra upvotes appear and they don't appear on other instances?

The reason is the way that Mastodon federates Like objects (upvotes). Like objects are unfortunately only federated to the instance of the user receiving the Like, and that's where the discrepancy comes from. All the Mastodon instances that upvoted the comments only sent those upvotes directly to Feddit.dk, so no other instances are aware of those upvotes.

This feels disappointing, as it highlights how Lemmy and Mastodon still don't really function that well together. The idea of a Lemmy post getting big on Mastodon and therefore bigger on Lemmy and thus spreading all over the Fediverse, is unfortunately mostly a fantasy right now. It simply can't really happen due to the technical way Mastodon and Lemmy function. I'm not sure if there is a way to address this on either side (or if the developers would be willing to do so even if there was).

I personally find Mastodon's Like sharing mechanism weird - only sharing with the receiving instance means that big instances like mastodon.social have an advantage in "gathering Likes". When sorting toots based on favorites, bigger instances are able to provide a much better feed for users than smaller instances ever could, simply because they see more of the Likes being given. This feels like something that encourages centralization, which is quite unfortunate I think.

TL;DR: The comments got hugely popular on Mastodon. Mastodon only federates upvotes to the receiving instance so only Feddit.dk has seen the Mastodon upvotes, and other instances are completely unaware.

One big difference that I've noticed between Windows and Linux is that Windows does a much better job ensuring that the system stays responsive even under heavy load.

For instance, I often need to compile Rust code. Anyone who writes Rust knows that the Rust compiler is very good at using all your cores and all the CPU time it can get its hands on (which is good, you want it to compile as fast as possible after all). But that means that for a time while my Rust code is compiling, I will be maxing out all my CPU cores at 100% usage.

When this happens on Windows, I've never really noticed. I can use my web browser or my code editor just fine while the code compiles, so I've never really thought about it.

However, on Linux when all my cores reach 100%, I start to notice it. It seems like every window I have open starts to lag and I get stuttering as the programs struggle to get a little bit of CPU that's left. My web browser starts lagging with whole seconds of no response and my editor behaves the same. Even my KDE Plasma desktop environment starts lagging.

I suppose Windows must be doing something clever to somehow prioritize user-facing GUI applications even in the face of extreme CPU starvation, while Linux doesn't seem to do a similar thing (or doesn't do it as well).

Is this an inherent problem of Linux at the moment or can I do something to improve this? I'm on Kubuntu 24.04 if it matters. Also, I don't believe it is a memory or I/O problem as my memory is sitting at around 60% usage when it happens with 0% swap usage, while my CPU sits at basically 100% on all cores. I've also tried disabling swap and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

EDIT: Tried nice -n +19, still lags my other programs.

EDIT 2: Tried installing the Liquorix kernel, which is supposedly better for this kinda thing. I dunno if it's placebo but stuff feels a bit snappier now? My mouse feels more responsive. Again, dunno if it's placebo. But anyways, I tried compiling again and it still lags my other stuff.

Bonus panel:

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