HSRđ´ââ ď¸We had a good run, thank you everyone
JohnDClayBot purge or server issues?
The KraKEN People were pushing for everyone to comment at least once a day so all the lurkers were counted as active users. Itâs a little bit of The Pot Roast Principle at this point.
I read once about an experiment where they put letâs say ten monkeys in a room, with a ladder in the middle, leading up to a bunch of grapes or bananas or whatever. Whenever a monkey approached the ladder to try and climb it though the researching would blast 'em with water. They all eventually learned that climbing the ladder leads to water cannon. They replaced one of the monkeys with a new one, and the other nine monkeys quickly taught it not to climb the ladder. This continued until all ten of the original monkeys were replaced, and eventually the water cannon had passed out of memory, and only remained in the lore they taught each other and the new monkeys, even though nobody had actually been sprayed for several âgenerationsâ if you will.
I think about that a lot whenever people say they arenât allowed do something, especially because of religion.
Last time I saw it, someone said it was fake. Hereâs a source I found for that: some guy made it up for his self-help book
Was the experiment with five monkeys, a ladder, a banana and a water spray conducted?
I've found the following picture online. It is about the moral/paradigm behind consistent behavior. Click to enlarge. The image text says A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage an...
Iâll be darned, thanks for the correction. Now that you mention it that definitely sounds like the kind of story a self help guru would tell.
Right? I want quality, not quantity.
I was busy for a few days where are the trend discussions being held?
man what the hell is that article on? It starts off explaining the pot roast principle which ok that makes sense (itâs that we often do things not because of logic but simply we were taught to do so by our parents), but then it says that a message to take away from the story is that âpersistence is a virtueâ which I mean I guess but youâre kinda missing the point? But then in the very next sentence where it says âsometimes things we take as fact are just superstitionâ it goes âand we should consider prayer as a healthcare alternativeâ and compares listening to only medical science as like cutting the ends off a pot roast. Not like âsuperstitions hang around for a reason though and thereâs perhaps some minor psychological value in these harmless cultural thingsâ or âpeople who strongly believe in something tend to report more positively in negative timesâ or even god forbid âhave you considered that prayer is like cutting pot roast ends?â, straight up âhave you tried asking God for help? When was the last time you did that huh? Why are you treating God like a teabag thatâs pretty ungrateful you dickâ
Iâm guessing you probably didnât mean for that to be the message (this article is weirdly the first to pop up when you google the term) but uh, maybe you should vet your articles? Unless youâre really trying to say we should try praying for lemmy to succeed
To be honest I picked the first result on Google, half-heartedly scanned it to make sure it actually told the story about the roast and went âgood enoughâ
I just went back to reread it and Iâm kind of horrified now. Going to have to edit in a less insane link.
Not gonna lie I lost it when the article asks, âAre your prayers like tea bags? Do you only use them when youâre in hot water??â
Most people just call that âcargo cultâ where they donât know why they do something, they just do the ritual without questioning it. Also it probably wonât lead to people looking up stuff related to putting a roast on a spit đ
This is a pretty standard curve for a recently discovered thing. Everyone is curious what it is, tries it out then a percentage decides it isnât for them and goes elsewhere.
I had to be pretty stubborn to get into Lemmy, never received the verification email (likely due to sudden server load) and no way to retrigger it, so had to wait until the new version came out. Apparently that removed the login block. Not to mention the filter on my account defaulting to showing no posts (needed to set language filter to include undetermined and my language), so it was kind of a rough entry.
But this number isnât total accounts, itâs active accounts. So that means people who have logged in at least once during the last month. The accounts still exist from when people came to check it out, but if they decided it wasnât for them or ran into issues like I did and didnât return then theyâd fall off the active user list.
New products face this curve all the time. Steady growth, discovery spike then retained user drop back to steady, hopefully accelerated, growth with a higher baseline than before.
I am also under the impression that active only counts users who commented or posted. So there is also a very significant possibility that people are just settling in and starting to lurk. Itâs really the 90-9-1 principle (in a stable community, 90% lurk, 9% are occasionally active, 1% are consistently active). It would really be weirder if we didnât see some lurkers after such a massive influx of people
Die4EverMaybe it should also count users that vote?
UntouchedWagonsThere was a post the other day about other lemmy servers that had thousands of inactive users. The OP contacted the admins of those servers to let them know and several admins did purge a load of accounts.
I believe this is the correct and uncontroversial explanation.
Well I would like an incorrect and controversial explanation please and thank you
People fine to realise that Lemmy is the bottom of the barrel. Constant server outages, low quality content and a community that is growing ever not toxic.
There. You wanted indirect and controversial.
It was the fuckin beans
I blieve you are correct. All my alts are gone