Fun thing is a lot of the seeming Zuck fans are driving this recent spike, with the federation debates. The engagement is spiking our value, which some of the smarter ones probably know and are doing on purpose.
Good question. Maybe they did it deliberately to make it feel more alien and strange? Or maybe there’s another rule about the relative number of syllables (e.g., Tom and Jerry, Jak and Daxter, etc.)
That sounds normal when flipped to me. Swapping Rick and Morty for Morty and Rick sounds wrong but Mindy and Mork still has that right to it. I think they did it on purpose.
This is likely because of the different sound profile(not sure if this is the right word) of the words. Mork ends with a guttural letter that opens up for usage of a relatively open vowel like the “a” in “and”. Also, it’s one syllable, and it should be easier to start with the lower number of syllables and work your way up or at least keep it that count. Mindy, on the other hand, has those two syllables, and ends with a vowel that also I believe, making this up on the spot, shouldn’t open up for possibilities to follow up, which I think is why there’s not just barely quite as much usage for “y” as a vowel too. Add to that that saying “Mork and Mindy” makes ylu naturally slide “O-Æ-I-I’”, gradually opening up. Instead, saying “Mindy and Mork” will make you rather awkwardly jump around less open vowels: it’s stressing your mouth to close more. If you say it like “Mindy 'n Mark” it should be a slight bit easier to say. Finally, and is atonal, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, and saying “Mork and Mindy” allows Mork to quickly slide to Mindy by merging “and” with “Mork”, whereas Mindy would force you to either pronounce a hiatus, or a glottal stop, forcing you to tonalize “and”, which is suboptimal. There’s many different rules at play than I-A-O. Why did I invest my time making a point through potentially incorrect information.
I’d love to see some more clear tracking of where all the posts are. Not sure how best to find it. Seems like I just go to every instance and have to look through their list of communities to see it.
You can sort by posts, comments, subscribers, etc. plus other useful filters. It’s currently the best tool for finding active communities - especially if you’re on a smaller instance.
It’s useful because it shows numbers across all instances - not just in relation to your own.
You can see that some of the top communities are not English speaking, which may be why you don’t see them in your feed.
I’m super against abuses in scales but this one isn’t that bad. It wouldn’t have changed too much but yes, it’s slightly deceptive to track it as what looks like 10x the growth instead of 5
It’s half way up a line at the start of the graph, and the end of the graph is at 8 lines tall, so by my math I’d say it looks like 16x vs roughly the actual ~4x improvement.
That’s what I was gonna say, the blackout ended on the 14th and then spez did his ama so I feel like that might’ve been the push people needed to make the change.
Was that around the time of the spez AMA? Maybe that was a tipping point for a lot of people - the various protests had been completely ignored and admins tripled-down.
Idk if somebody else notices but there are a few communities with a Bot who reposts Reddit post… Idk but they are pretty annoying since we want to be independent from Reddit.
I’ve blocked them, but I wish they’d stop entirely. The reason I blocked them was not even because I disagree with copying content (I’m fine with that in some cases), but because it was just spamming posts that nobody wanted to engage in. It was post after post with zero comments.
Side note: hot sorting sucks and need to be improved. Why the heck does it like to show so many brand new posts with not even a single other person voting on? If I wanted to see new posts, I’d browse new. I expect hot to show me things that at least a couple of people have said “yeah, this is good” to, first (and ideally more than just a couple).
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