In no way is the person you're responding to speaking defensively. They've discussed the reason why your extrapolation to a full-mesh connective worst-case scenario isn't based in the reality of how ActivityPub functions. But you don't seem to be willing to entertain the notion that the federation of any given action never exceeds the number of instances subscribed to the community that generated it.

Even should every instance subscribe to every community on every other instance, the recipient of a federated action doesn't turn around and rebroadcast that action back on to the network because it is not the authoritative host of that community. Therefore what this discussion is lacking is proof of where this exponential broadcast storm of federated actions comes from in your assertion.

I was reading about this study some just the other day. Gotta say that I'm really intrigued by how it re-frames the generally accepted knowledge. I hope they're able to derive something testable from this.

Glad to hear about your successes in the trip! I'm still incredibly early in my own studies, but I've heard the best way to study listening comprehension is by regularly consuming media in the language. What that looks like might change depending on someone's particular interests, but I've really enjoyed putting on Japanese Twitch streams in the background for games I already know (or don't have any need to know, like competitive esports).

As expected, quite a lot flew over my head. But I was also surprised by how much I picked up on, both from the gradual improvement of my more formal studies and also from the loan words that tend to show up when talking about games. And I'm able to leverage my existing knowledge of the subject matter to just let my brain do what it can to contextualize what it's hearing.

I've noticed the same situation in some threads on my own instance too. But I'm under the impression that it might just be backlogged on the responsible instance that's supposed to send out the federated content. I've noticed this when just having my home feed set to New and then suddenly seeing like thirty posts from lemmy.world come across all at once with widely varied timestamps.

I suppose the best way to test if this is the case would be to note down any threads that are missing substantial amounts of comments on your local server and then check back with that thread periodically to see if and when they start to fill in.

Honestly this is the silver lining of Elon buying the company; endless entertainment from watching the smoldering wreck. I do feel bad for the folks that were actually getting value out of using Twitter before his acquisition, but it's fascinating to see Twitter constantly finding new ways to fail to meet everyone's already-low expectations.

Exactly. Rip the bandaid off and be honest instead of trying to gaslight everyone. Probably would've resulted in far fewer people checking out Fediverse alternatives.

I had a strange issue where the Store interface couldn't be interacted with until I swapped to the Library and back again. I side-stepped the issue by just telling Steam to always open to the Library tab on launch which is honestly preferable behavior anyways.

Whoa, what a cool project! It seems like way more than I need for single-user purposes, but I've been relying on Moonlight, Sunshine, and Chiaki quite a lot more than I ever expected to since I ended up taking quite a liking to using the Steam Deck as a pseudo thin-client. Kind of the best of both worlds letting another machine do the heavy lifting somewhere else in the house, so any advancements in the local game streaming space are extremely welcome to see.

MGS3 is such an experience, enjoy it! It's remarkable how much depth got crammed in to the MGS games, even just in the codec calls alone.

I snagged a couple of VPS from Racknerd in the Black Friday sale. One of them became a home for my Mastodon instance and now the other gets my new Lemmy instance. No issues to speak of with them yet, so I'm perfectly happy with 'em.

Slide for Reddit was my app of choice. Now I'm just waiting for my CCPA data export request to come back to me. Once that's done, all the old accounts are going in the shredder.

Thanks for the helpful tool! Posting this from my new single-user Lemmy instance. I ended up tweaking the compose template a bit to remove Caddy since I already have it running on this VPS for other services. Wasn't too bad to just take the Caddyfile information and add it to my own existing framework.