fiat_lux

A lot of accounts are interacting (voting, posting, etc.) on lemmy-visible activitypub services within a 6 month timespan, but most accounts are not active users interacting every month.

It’s actually a very positive graph. Many of the new accounts would be spammers, bots, throwaway accounts, alts of banned users, users making account on multiple instances because of downtime, etc. So it’s normal to see growth over longer spans of time that aren’t completely reflected in monthly active user statistics.

The current plateau is probably for the best, it gives developers time to catch up somewhat with the last growth spurt. There will be other social media platform clusterremoveds in the future that will kick off future growth spurts.

Because they were making Reddit 2.0, with all the same flaws.

Excellent, thankyou! I was just going to throw ubuntu at it unless I really needed something else because of the potato specs, so hopefully drivers are already sorted.

especially the WiFi/Bluetooth chipset

Noted. I would be pissed to not have that working.

Don’t try anything fancy

No chance, I’ve been burnt by my unix arrogance enough times to not want to try it on proprietary hardware. Until now I assumed even getting Linux on there was too fancy, I still remember other people fighting for weeks with their hackintosh a decade ago.

Thanks, I appreciate it! I’m happy for a dual boot and for no camera, so here’s hoping for the rest.

I have a late 2011 that I might be interested in doing this to. Any practical advice on avoiding your suffering?

Same. This pic has been helpfully living in my memory for probably a decade.