Coelacanth @ Coelacanth @lemmy.world

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I'm the other way around personally. He's not a world-beater but I think Fred gets a bad rep and 30m sounds reasonable.

Elanga for 30m is just a terrible deal though, and I say that as a Swede.

My first thought was AstroTurf too but honestly Lemmy is still small enough that I wonder if Meta even cares enough for it to pay for astroturfing here. They got more signups in a couple of hours than Lemmy got users in three years, and by several magnitudes even. Plus it's an inherently hostile demographic for them. They're better off investing in positive posting on Reddit, which I'm sure is what they're already doing.

They'll kill it by having the largest userbase, and therefore the most and best content, and then finally defederating and forcing everyone to join Threads. At least that's what they'll most likely attempt to do. It remains to be seen whether they'll be successful. The EEE approach has been used before and is well documented. (Read more on Wikipedia.)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish]

One advantage lemmy.world has which led to many people recommending it early on is that Ruud is an experienced Fediverse admin (here is a summary of all his servers: https://lemmy.world/post/6441). This meant it was easy to suggest to early Reddit refugees since he's proven competent and reliable so it soothed fears of instances having poor uptime or getting abandoned and helped ease the transition.

While you're not wrong per se, having a massive instance like .world has enabled some much needed stress testing of the Lemmy backend in a way that really hasn't been possible before, which will help the Devs find optimizations and improvements that will facilitate future growth overall on all instances. The recent memory leak that was discovered is a great example of it.

Really testing the limits of scalability is important for the overall future of Lemmy. Doing it on a server whose admin already runs a large mastodon server and has proven to be trustworthy and reliable is not a bad thing so long as donations can keep up with server costs.

Finally, gathering on .world makes it easy for Reddit refugees to transition, which is actually valuable in reaching critical mass on Lemmy, though maybe that first big wave of people has passed already.

It doesn't seem like WefWef has that functionality but you can limit your search to within communities if searching from the regular Lemmy site in a browser.

Keep tabs on !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml as well if you're not already subscribed to it.

Yes, if anything the huge influx of users has been absorbed in a surprisingly painless way, all things considered. We haven't had any huge outages or downtimes, lemmy.world is still holding at almost 90k users and the memory leak was if not permanently solved then at least temporarily patched within what, 24 hours of its discovery?

It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.

There was a great breakdown by a Villa fan on Reddit but I didn't save the post. Apart from the obviously terrible results (especially compared to what Emery did with the same players) he also possessed basically every negative trait a manager could have (at least for his Villa stint, I did not follow him in Scotland). Alienated dressing room leaders for no reason, didn't trust the youth, poor communication with the players, miserable touchline demeanour, hostile towards both fans and journalists, overall negative and pessimistic outlook. I remember he told the media before a game that Chelsea should be coming to Villa Park and wiping the floor with them, for example, which understandably grated the fans.

This was in addition to the on-pitch issues where he put forth puzzling selections, didn't have a clear gameplan, wasn't good at using subs and also couldn't adapt to individual games tactically neither before nor during matches.

We're already seeing the development move forward thanks to it. Today's updates made a huge difference in .world performance.

Hard to say. He did well in the Championship with Norwich and it could be argued that their relegations were almost inevitable and not really his fault. I didn't follow the Bundesliga closely but I know Gladbach never found consistency last year and looking at the stats they seemed to have been leaky defensively which has been a weakness of his with Norwich too, particularly in the Premier League. His style of play is very positive when it's working, though.

I'd be cautiously optimistic overall, but more important will be whether the new owners can implement a better off-the-pitch structure and do better deals in the transfer market.

I've noticed lemmy.world has been much more responsive today so something seems to be working!

Yeah that's much better. I like it!

Unless it's a phenomenal impostor then based on demeanor and posting style I'd say it's the same person.

You should consider bringing this up at !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml

I prefer just having each thing in its own place and wholly separate, to be honest. I did enjoy the no holes barred shitpost-a-thon once a year or whatever on r/Soccer over Christmas when the mods had a day off. That felt like a proper event, but I'd not want it more than once or maybe twice a year on the main sub.

I guess a consensus hasn't been firmly established on memes but I personally wouldn't mind restricting them on this sub, creating a separate Soccer Shitpost sub and linking that in the sidebar.

It's very possible United is the last PL club without proper Data Analytics at this point, though I don't know about Luton to be fair. Many of the even smaller-to-medium size teams are Statsbomb customers now. Brentford, Brighton, Liverpool and Arsenal have their own proprietary departments and algorithms. Man City hired Laurie Shaw a couple of years ago to build one for them. I had hoped something had changed at Utd but I suppose nothing really should be expected to happen without new owners.

Last year we sacked senior members of our scouting staff just before the summer window opened, the ineptitude runs deep at our club 😅

That was hilarious timing. Though if I remember correctly those were the people who hadn't ordered a single scout report on Nkunku while he was available so you know, maybe not a massive loss in the end.

I'll vouch for PoppinKREAM as a fantastic mod candidate for whatever it's worth.