Pamasich

Wouldn’t them voting for an independent candidate still mean they’re not voting for a republican? Wouldn’t that still be a net plus?

Legalization itself doesn’t do much. What mainly reduces crime is regulations. And just by legalizing something, you’re applying existing regulations to it.

Legalizing drugs means that someone selling drugs now counts as a legal vendor and needs to play by the same rules. Legalizing sex work means that brothels need to apply labor laws. Minimum wages and all that stuff.

Guns aren’t going away, whether they’re legal or not. But when guns are legal to sell, you can require licenses, background checks, and other requirements which wouldn’t exist if it was illegal. Maybe you even want gun ownership to be in some kind of database so you have a better idea whom to suspect when gun crime happens. You don’t get that when guns are illegal.

So in my opinion, getting rid of guns isn’t a solution. It’ll just make the problem more invisible. You should instead strengthen your regulations regarding guns. And teach people some discipline with them. I hear too many stories about third parties acquiring guns that are just lying around loaded, or children and dogs accidentally killing people by discharging the gun. How can someone just get guns into a school building? You guys need to address those issues, not ownership itself. Banning guns is a panic button, not a solution. It means you’re giving up and shoving the problem under the rug.

My country also has high gun ownership, yet we don’t share your problems in that regard. So clearly legal gun ownership isn’t the issue. It’s about gun culture, discipline, and regulation. All of which can be addressed without banning guns. But they have to be addressed, the US needs to change things from the status quo.

I knew to check robots.txt because of fedidb’s Data Sources page, which specifies what data they get, their user agent, and how to opt-out via robots.txt.

One thing I’m noticing in regards to lemmy.world, I wonder if they ever disallowed access to the nodeinfo endpoint in their robots.txt in the past. They don’t currently, but the wording suggests that having that rule at any point will forever remove the instance from fedidb. Which could explain what we’re seeing for that instance.

That is interesting to know. It doesn’t look like lemmy.world has opted out, judging by their robots.txt.

Not going to use this one either, but I wish I could use LibreOffice.

It’s really laggy for me on Windows. Particulary when interacting with the window, moving or resizing it. It’s not smooth at all. As someone who uses everything windowed and moves windows around all the time, I tried using it, but it’s unusable for me imo.

so maybe that active user count above is something like weekly active

Every instance provides its MAU publically on request, but there’s no centralized server they all send their MAU to proactively. Third party websites trying to display an overall MAU have to manually check instances, for which they need to be aware of them to. Then add up the numbers.

As a result, different sites can display different MAU because they’re aware of and checking different instances.

There’s no weekly active users provided by instances, so I really doubt it’s that. Instances only provide monthly and half year numbers.

but their MAU math is suspect

Do they do any math? I assumed it’s simply additive. They get the MAU from individual instances via their crawler, then display a total?
Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked, not anything math related.

Worth noting, on FediDB, Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin is sitting at 54.8k MAU. Lemmy itself is at 46.4k. Though I don’t know the historical situation there.