Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/06/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/06/2023
Welcome to today's daily kōrero!
Yes, I created the daily today just to say how good the new kiwi icon looks, but feel free to chat anything that takes your fancy.
Today is Friday, what are your weekend plans?
I'm giving Lemmy a go, as I was an avid Apollo user. Have people on here noticed a noticeable uptick in engagement in here and across Lemmy in general?
We seem to get bursts, then some really active users we never hear from again. That's expected though, people are trying stuff out. Reddit starts charging unreasable amounts for their API tomorrow which will kill most 3rd party apps, so I'm expecting another uptick (which may have already started).
Lemmy.nz has a group of core active users and others come and go, I've noticed a lot of new users in the past few days, especially new users posting and participating which is great to see!
As others have said, to get the proper experience you need to interact with communities on other instances. Just going to Communities->All and browsing the ones with the highest active user count can give you a good selection. Or even just browsing the main All feed, look for posts you like, and see what community they are posted to. Lemmy.nz has a slow trickle of content but if you look at All there is plenty of content to interact with.
Yeah, I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to be growing steadily. I joined on lemmy.world at random because I didn't really understand how it all works at the start. But that instance and the NZ one seem pretty good, there's some good discussion and few dickheads.
It's not as big as The Other Place of course, but it's gaining popularity slowly. And tbh, I wouldn't really want it to be massive - I like the slower pace, and it seems more welcoming being a smaller community.
@NoRamyunForYou @sortofblue I have found engagement across the whole fediverse to be better quality.
The number of comments I get is higher than Twitter or reddit, despite the number of likes being lower.
Yeah, really enjoying the community type vibe going on around here. Feels more like you're having a conversation with a group of people. Excited to see how it all goes
If you like Apollo, https://www.wefwef.app has a similar UI
As that site is struggling at times, we are now also running our own instance of wefwef at wefwef.lemmy.nz
Yeap, currently using wefwef.lemmy.nz that is hosted? by Dave here.
I've only been on lemmy for a few weeks so I'm really not sure but I think next week is going to see a decent jump in numbers.
How are you finding it so far?
Obviously overall engagement and the number of communities? (Equivalent of subreddits) is a lot lower, but hopefully there's a bit of an increase in the coming weeks? Got quite a small community vibe to it at the moment, which is seeing me want to engage more in my "local" communities. Might be a bit of a Goldilocks zone in the coming weeks/months where there's enough engagement, but not full on Reddit levels.
It's great to finally have an icon for this community! We still have a couple of "naked" communities but the majority now have icons and banner images. It's looking good!
As boring as it sounds, my weekend plans are likely to be Lemmy related. I'd like to run some tests using Ansible to deploy Lemmy (automated rather than manual install) and then test using Ansible to update Lemmy. I've been getting a lot of help from @[email protected] with that but there's not much more that can be done without me having to get my hands dirty myself.
Lemmy 0.18.1 release candidates are being released for testing so I'd guess we will get an official release this weekend based on the last few weeks.
And all this will only happen given time, since weekends mean kids are at home in need of entertainment! And school holidays are starting this weekend (last day of school today).
Lemmy related question: I was looking at a GitHub list of instances, with user counts, blocked by and blocking numbers, etc, and saw that lemmy.nz blocks 1 other instance. What instance and why?
Also, cool to see us so high up on that list when sorted by users!
What instance and why?
Lemmygrad.ml, because we don't want that in our All feed.
There are worse instances, but if we start seeing things against our code of conduct in the All feed then I'll add more. We want our instance to be welcoming and friendly.
Why ansible and not the current docker deployment?
Ansible does use docker, it's almost the same thing but automated.
The main driver originally was because the ansible setup seems to be kept up to date where as following the manual docker install instructions leads to many things not set up right because they haven't been kept up to date (admittedly it's getting better).
The update instructions are pretty brief. It basically says to update the docker tags to point to the new version. This did not work for 0.18.0 because there we other changes. Having an ansible update process would hopefully make things easier in terms of updates. It also means the setup would be exactly like what they expect, currently we have a few differences (e.g. reverse proxy running traefik in docker).
Kia ora! Another Apollo refugee just wanting to say thanks for the mahi getting this up and going, probably going to be mostly lurking though!
Welcome!
I'm a Kiwi based in Melbourne so the work day has barely started for me yet, bleurgh! Just got back from a wee jaunt up north in Mangawhai where it rained buckets but it didn't seem to affect the collective mood of my old Otago uni mates.
Weather is going to be crap here. Assuming I can't take the wee fella out on the bike (my son, not a euphemism for anything else), I'm probably going to be spending the weekend on a whole lot of Linux admin chores (some work, some personal) and a wee bit of gaming. Steam sales are depressing when I realise I've already bought everything. I really have a problem!
Thanks. I'm glad it worked out. It was a good idea. But I still want to tweak it slightly because I'm a perfectionist.
Halfway through the workday, yay. I have no firm plans for the weekend and I'm very happy about that. Except maybe to go to the gym and maybe go out to eat some nice food somewhere.
I'm so sick 😫. On holiday and I've been vomiting with diarrhea all day and night. Basically clutching a bottle of water and a bottle of pocari sweat for dear life.
Going to try eating food today but I have no appetite and will probably throw it up.
Oh no! Hopefully it's a 12hr and not anything much longer. Plain crackers and lemonade popsicles were always the go-to when were sick as kids but I don't know why.
Hope you feel better soon!
Its been going 24 hours so far and I'm stuck in a small Japanese hotel room. With 2 others.