I don’t think you can interact with Mastodon from Lemmy, but you can do the reverse.

If we get to be even half the size of Lemmy.world, I will eat my hat. But the same thought does cross my mind every time I invite another disillusioned Redditor on board.

What’s a fair way to compare an instance with 51 accounts to one with 108,800 accounts? Average users per month relative to total user base seems pretty fair to me. The average users per month for our five biggest communities is 15.29. If I do the same calculation for your home instance, I get 7.12. So yes, we’re small, but we’re active.

That’s easy: Lemmy.ninja! Small, nimble, active, and awesome!

Edit: It occurs to me I should probably list some more reasons why Lemmy.ninja is so awesome:

• 100.00% uptime!
• Certified spambot-free
• We work every day to help new users learn the ropes of Lemmy and find content on your instances to subscribe to
• We have strict but fair rules
• We’re never satisfied with the site and always work to improve it

Instead of focusing on something like real people losing their jobs because of it.

Ironically, it was the rise of one of those job-killing changes that made it possible for me to get in to a job in art in the first place. I think the same thing will be true for generative images. Some people who relied on the high bar for entry to protect their jobs will lose them, and some people who couldn’t get access to those jobs will suddenly find themselves able to enter artistic fields.

Art, like everything else, is worth what someone will pay for it.

A chimpanzee can sell his art for thousands and get it in a gallery. It is that easy – if people want it for some reason.

It’s not art

I’m old enough to remember three similar statements that are equally untrue:

• Photography isn’t art
• Photoshop isn’t art
• Video Games aren’t art

Eventually, we changed our opinions. The same will happen for generative images. They are art.

This happened to me in my mid-thirties. I tried a couple pivots. One was to web development, which I found didn’t really help the burnout. So I pivoted again to project management. Project management doesn’t pay as well, but the hours and workload are far easier to deal with. It’s also a lot more accepting of older workers than IT is. Find yourself a project management position in IT somewhere. If you can get one in information security you could build up some time in that sector and get the CISSP, which would open a lot of doors to great paying jobs.

Here’s one I witnessed in an office about 25 years ago. Some engineers filled a plastic 35mm film canister with a bunch of the waste paper from a three-hole punch. That’s basically the little white circles of paper. Then they took a can of compressed air and, with the cap mostly on the canister, slowly filled the canister with super-cooled air from the compressed air canister. Then they fully sealed the cap and went to talk to the mark. They placed the canister nearby – on the mark’s desktop computer, I think. Just out of sight. To avoid arousing suspicion, they stayed and talked to him for 30 seconds or so. Then they walked off to go back to work (and watch the prank unfold from a distance).

That little canister sat there for a while, with the super-cooled air slowly warming to room temperature. As you know, the molecules of cold gasses are very close together, and they start to expand outward as they warm. So when this canister got warm enough, there was enough pressure inside to pop the lid off and distribute the little white paper circles in a perfectly random pattern in a circle about six feet around the mark.

It was glorious.

It took me a while to figure out that an over-the-counter sleep aid and the Benadryl I would buy for allergy symptoms were, in fact, exactly the same drug, Diphenhydramine, packaged under different names.

I’m glad you were here to provide the explanation that the bot should have provided. Thank you for taking the time.

What’s improper about the link I used? Does it work?

Yep, that’s what I use to find communities to write spotlight posts on. It’s a good tool! I have even more tools listed in the Community Search Tips community. Check it out!

Time to block this bot.

Lemmy.ninja provides the !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja community, which has walkthroughs on how to find content, how to subscribe to it, etc. It also does periodic curated reviews on communities and invites users to do the same.

There is Community Search Tips as well.

I like having money, so I use porkbun.com.

Paige NO!

Hindsight. Always useful. Terrible timing.