I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.

That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.

The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.

The instance a user joins is quite important. An instance that doesn’t want to store images and video will not want users who subscribe to all the image/video communities (that will federate their content over). A user whose interests are overwhelmingly technical won’t be interested in local communities on an artist server, where a non-technical user might feel at home. Many instance moderation policies are friendly to right-wing and will be defederated by mainstream instances. And then there are loli/shota/koda instances…

Closing registrations is all well and good, but can’t activity / load still skyrocket as users from federated instances subscribe to, comment on, and post to their communities?

Pffffft maybe you, but I don’t have cognitive biases! Anchor pricing doesn’t work on me either because, raises nose, I know all about it.

Interesting. The regular Salomons pinch me in the front and back so I definitely agree about particularly narrow. My complaint with Salomon wides is that the toe box isn’t that wide but even worse it’s not long enough. I kept a pair anyway until I was able to replace them with a pair of my own choosing.

The Altras definitely have the best overall last for me, but I’m not sure I’d say my toes have enough room to splay. What I don’t like is their support level for use on court or on trails, as I end up with high-ankle strain. I’m a hiker and a cyclist, but not a runner, so for me the platform isn’t stable enough but that’s a wrong-for-me problem not a bad-shoe problem. They fit my foot so well I play flat courses on hot days with them anyway, but my new Hokas may displace them.

I can generally ignore my heel’s fit, focusing on length and toe box. I’m wearing Oboz for work right now and I do have some wiggle room in the heel, but it’s never bothered me.

Based on this discussion as a whole, I’d recommend wide New Balance and Hokas.

Reddit trying to go the slow route, removing one thing at a time, will make it easier for lemmy to scale and grow to accept all the users.

If they did API, old.reddit, and nsfw all at the same time it would be absolutely impossible to accommodate.

This is where the duplicated communities in lemmy’s federation works for you. As the big instances get flooded with content that is low quality but highly upvoted (as happens in big subreddits), you can also subscribe to communities about the same topic from smaller instances.

I have enough faith in the moderators and the structure of the platform itself that there shouldn’t be too much of a toxicity problem.

My concern: Are there enough moderators for the deluge coming?

I’ve been thinking about the issue of less-thoughtful discussions from large numbers of users. I think the phenomenon is inevitable. I also think community topics being duplicated across the federation will help with this.

Let’s take technology for example. So !technology@lemmy.ml might end up as the most reddit-front-page feeling, with !technology@lemmy.ml a little less comment-memey, then smaller instances having progressively smaller communities that better reflect the focus of the instance’s overall slant.

The best analogy for communities and instances might be newspapers or TV channels. You’re going to get a sports section on CBS, NBC, WaPo, whatever. They will largely publish the same stories, but with very slightly different feels. As you get into smaller publications, like say the regional publication from your state’s sportshub city, they will tailor to the interests of that particular area.

As users, we not only get to choose how broad the interests of the communities we subscribe to but we also get to subscribe to communities that are redundant (for lack of better word) so that we can stay in touch with very broad looks across an interest while having more focused and perhaps higher-quality discussions at the same time.

The source I linked has a similar water content for potato chips, no dispute there. We could say that stack of 500 Benjies would be like eating 2 full bags of potato chips (an amount that would be 2,500+ calories of chips, for scale) with zero water, if you’d prefer to imagine how your digestive system would fare with that instead? Whether fried or baked, all I’m saying is it would be ambitious. :)

What’s heel-slip?

I’m throwing 350-400 foot drives with golf discs on one planted heel and not having issues with slipping with the mentioned shoes, or Moabs, Salomons, or Oboz (more great daily walkers!).

You’re right that I’m assuming bank note moisture is negligible or sealed, which may or may not be the case in practice. However, raw potatoes are 79% water and baked potatoes are 75% water (re-reading, I see that I didn’t actually say baked, my error).

I honestly thought you meant a few bills, each worth a hundred, and I was trying to make a joke.

Starchy food is mostly water - around 75% for potatoes. So 500g of zero-moisture would require 1.5L of water to break even not with 500g of potatoes, but with 2kg potatoes, or 80-85% of a 5-pound sack of potatoes for our US readers.

Bottom line, 500g equivalency to starchy food would be to eat 2kg of potatoes with no additional water. Ambitious!

You could eat a few HUNDRED??? /s

My feet are wide which really limit my options, but I just got a pair of Hoka Arahi 6. Also a fan of New Balance 1006 and Altra Lone Peak.