Bear in mind that Antenna (the source of this info) has no access to internal Netflix metrics, only to opt-in consumer information. We won't really know what's going on with Netflix's numbers until their next quarterly report.

Thank you to everyone :

• Admins for doing a brutal amount of work for something they believe in
• Mods for keeping their own areas humming along
• Financial contributors for keeping the lights on
• Everyone who posts and comments for making this a nice place to visit

There's this odd dynamic that turns up in all sorts of communities where people someone equate "person who volunteers their own time" with "person who has to do anything I want them to do". When stated that baldly it's easy to see the nonsense and yet somehow it keeps happening. Hopefully folks here won't fall into that trap.

Hopefully not repeating things others have said...

• Thanks for taking the time to write long thoughtful posts explaining the admin thinking, rather than just "we have decided X, live with it" posts.
• It seems entirely appropriate to me for the admins to set the tone of this instance, through explicit rules, through deciding who to add as a user and who to make a mod, and through deciding which other instances to federate with. Anybody who disagrees can always start their own instance. That you're opening a coffee shop doesn't mean anyone can come in without shirt and shoes (bad analogy like all analogies).
• It's entirely possible that I (older white male with plenty of income raised in a homegeneous white suburb) have some opinions that would be appropriate on one of those defederated instances but not here. I can always make an account over there if I feel the need to post those opinions. Likewise, if someone on a defederated instance wants to post here and can behave themselves according to the house rules, they can create an account here. This doesn't seem like a huge burden to impose on anyone.
• During a long career as a software developers, just about every successful fork I can recall came about because a majority of a project's developers (not its users!) decided they had to leave a dysfunctional project. Until/unless Lemmy gets to that point it seems pretty silly to me to talk about forking the codebase.

Communities naturally change as they grow. I'm sure I'm not the only one who can remember being able to read every single Tweet as the scrolled by on the Twitter homepage, before it became necessary to pick and choose who to follow. Or who watched popular BBS boards fission as the load got too high.

The challenge is to have healthy growth. Thoughtful moderation goes a long way (unless you're looking for a free-for-all environment, which some people are). Welcoming and engaging people who you want to encourage to set the tone helps too. I suspect the fact that in the Fediverse you can "vote with your feet" and switch servers without losing access to previous discussions may also help to limit the spread of toxicity.

When I feel like bringing a luxury item, it's my Helinox Chair Zero. Every pound counts, but at my age being able to sit for a few hours without my back hurting too much helps a lot.

I dunno if I really qualify as a "Reddit refugee" as I wasn't particularly active there...a few dozen posts, a few hundred comments, all now deleted. But it was the current reddit mess that got me looking around for other communities and finding Lemmy & Beehaw. I've been online and in various communities since basically forever (Usenet, Puppy [the easier version of Fido to run on a first-generation PC], MajorBBS, CompuServe, The WELL, IRC, etc. etc.) but I promise to try not to play the "get off my lawn" card too often.

I had a medley of jobs for the most part in the tech space, and I've been happily retired for a few years now, because my DW has a good job with a BigCo and I prefer keeping the house clean to writing more code for other people. These days I mostly just try to get outside and hike as much as I can, but I like having at least a tiny bit of online community available.

Politically I lean pretty far to the left, having spent a chunk of my youth fairly active in anarchist circles. These days I'm more of a pragmatist who just wants people to be nice to each other.

It's possible that someone will recognize this username from elsewhere, in which case: yes, it's me, and no, I don't feel like discussing things from decades in the past.

Love the new icons, and love love the fact that Beehaw is treating the creator right. That makes this site's team better than AMPTP!

I had a nice hike on Friday, 19 1/2 miles on the Youngs Creek and Lick Creek trails in the Hoosier National Forest (southern Indiana). The trails are in good condition, the weather was fine, and the bug pressure isn’t too bad yet this year (though the ticks are out in force). The fenced-off rock in the center of the picture here marks the Indiana Initial Point - the survey marker that all property deeds in this state reference.

My parents...when I was a kid. We went the whole upgrade cycle, from tents to camper to trailer to giant motorhome.

Then I spent decades not camping or hiking.

Then I had kids, and a decade later I was leading Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, and camping and hiking many weekends and weeks during the summer.

Now the kids are out of the nest and I can enjoy it on my own.

I suspect a lot of folks might not think of this as "fun" but I'm hoping to hike another 300 miles or so by September, on my way to 1,000 (planned!) for the year. Currently I've put in about 525 miles for 2023, all on trails within easy driving distance of southwestern Indiana. Tomorrow I'm off to the One Horse Gap trail system in Illinois for another 25 or 30 as an overnighter.

More anecdata, but 10-15 years ago I started getting RSI/carpal tunnel symptoms in both hands. I switched to tented keyboards (mainly Kinesis) and vertical mice (Anker among others) and the symptoms went away. I was able to finish out a programming career until I retired a few years ago. So thumbs-up from me. If you're on a Mac, the Kinesis Freestyle is perfectly plug & play. I would recommend checking out a vertical mouse at the same time.

Seconding pothos and snake plants. I started with a single 4" pot of pothos a few years ago and through sticking cuttings in dirt I've got about 10 or 12 pots now. One of them extends across the windows in 3 rooms and is threatening to eat the entire downstairs.

Snake plants are apparently impossible to kill, even if you forget to water them for weeks.

If you eat avocados you can just start burying all the pits in a pot of dirt, keep it watered, and some of them will sprout. Or the next time you have a carrot or potato or onion start to sprout, bury is and you will have free greenery for a while.

There are plenty of nice sections of the R2R. The area around Lusk Creek is nice, and there are enough trails there to spend a few days exploring if you're not just taking the thru hike. Fern Clyffe is also neat although there's no dispersed camping there.

My R2R Trail Story is online if you want a sense of what it was like for me.

There's a lemmy bug on this (or something closely related): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1385

If you're interested in more on the roads not taken in computing, David Noble's Forces of Production is worth a look (though out of print and hard to find at a reasonable price).

Happy to see Fail-Safe on the shelf too. I find myself re-reading that one every few years.

Trail runners for me as well. Mostly I wear Hoka Hoka One Speedgoats (though I think the 5 is unfortunately worse than the 4) in dry weather, Topo Ultraventure Pro for wet weather when I need more traction. Gaiters are a must - check out Dirty Girl Gaiters to up your style.

Most days I'd be posting a nature shot in response to that prompt. But my most recent hike was a few days ago at Patoka Lake, a heavily-used state park in our area. This combo of signs made me wonder when they legalized hunting disc golfers...

I was thinking maybe some kind of locust tree sapling but I think the leaf shape is wrong. I'm surprised no one has recognized it; it was all over the place. Then again if Beehaw is like most online communities most users are from the coasts rather than the midwest.

It's the scuffed flat spot right in the center of the poison ivy. Apparently nobody in Indiana thinks the Initial Point is worth maintaining.

I recently went through getting all of my photos (tens of thousands) out of Apple's clutches. For me, the answer was https://photostakeout.com/ to get them all back to my local machine in a reasonable format, and then https://www.digikam.org/ to manage them. The nice thing (for me) is that Digikam runs fine on Mac but will let me migrate easily (I hope!) to Linux when I finally toss this laptop in the river.

As far as syncing, it's less elegant: connect the device to the laptop, and manually drag the photos over. But I can live with that. Avoiding the big player centralized clouds is important to me. I use https://www.backblaze.com/ to make sure I have an offsite backup of everything, just in case. So rather than the workflow be

Camera => Central Library => Download and manage on laptop

it's now

Camera => Laptop => background backup to central location