Just remember - as content is generated SEO is naturally going to improve, which will start to bring people into kbin/lemmy via Google.

As people spend time here marketing types will start to notice. Shortly thereafter we will see bots. To me, how we as a community handle those bots will be the real "does this experiment survive" test.

Like most things there is a book that looks into this. Take a gander at the Wikipedia if your interested (the author argued that there are 11 'nations' in the US). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations

If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.

Your brain sees the reward (karma) and gets a hit of dopamine. In theory this creates a spiral of encouraging you to post more contet for more dopamine hits. More content pulls in more users...

While I think you might be onto something - I think this only works for consumer focused goods/products/services. Large language models can seed "what car should I get" type conversations - however they have a tendency to be confidently wrong. And in industry specific communities being confidently wrong (especially when attempting to influence a b2b sale) can lead to all kinds of negative ripple effects.

Right. If it's small (and soft) it's a dinner roll. A low quality one at that.

This was the bump from the blackout.

July 1 will be the next big influx of users.

A short time ago in a server near to your home...

Lemmy Wars

Some background. Some more background.

Vscode. Yes it's managed by Microsoft, and yes it's a newage emacs (it can do anything with add-ons), but regardless of what your tasks are it's probably going to be useful.

Everyone has a test environment. If your lucky you also have a separate one for production.

You can do one year dedicated spend.

But yes. Serverless is a trap to be avoided.

As someone in IT that is both wonderful and horrifying.

...as an IT guy who started my career as containers starred to be a thing, some of the stories from the late 90's early 2000's are bonkers. We have it so much easier with things like k8s handling the orchestration.

Check with your insurance. A lot of them will pay for it.

There is an author - Tad Williams, who wrote the "Otherland" series. One of the chapters has the some of the main ensemble going to "treehouse" - aka what happened in this universe when the nerds, geeks and techno wizards took their ball and went home. The series as a whole is interesting if you like sci-fi. That chapter however seems more and more on the nose the older I get.

I had the same bug. A full restart of my phone seems to have fixed it.

See I like being the it person.

I tell anyone who asks that my consultant rates are $300/hour with a 4 hour minimum - and that I have a specialization in cloud architecture and ops stuff.

For some reason, people with printer/windows/Facebook/phone problems suddenly change the subject...

Fun fact. WA is looking into getting rid of gas taxes and imposing a per mile driven tax due at registration.

I'm with you. Don't get me wrong, I have a tv and use arkenforge for maps. But 2d is enough of a time sink (epically when the map is only one part of the whole session)...

:x to save and quit. :q to quit. :q! To save and not quit.