I finally managed to see a Little Ringed Plover (Flussregenpfeifer, lit. “River Rain Whistler) from up close! They’re so tiny and adorable, I love them! :-)
Got really discouraged because I barely saw anything in the nature reserve today but he really brightened my day. Thank you Plover!
Went for a walk and managed to take a photo of a bird I hadn’t been able to photograph yet: A Spotted Flycatcher!
Its German name, Grauschnäpper, translates to “Grey Snatcher” — probably because it likes snatching flies and other insects!
That's one of the bugs.
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Seeing a glowing (b)orb in the trees is always a delight! So here's a male Eurasian Bullfinch (Gimpel / Dompfaff in Germany) after just having preened, his feathers still slightly fluffed up.
He was sitting in a tree really far away, but spotting him was simple — so colourful! Saw him on the weekend in North-Western Germany.
This frequently happens to me - I open the website and I am briefly logged in as another user as can be seen at the top right corner. It takes about a second and then I'm logged in as myself again. Managed to take a quick screenshot before it changed back.
The website theme is also changed from what I have it set to.
I find it a bit concerning how frequently this happens. Anyone have any idea as to why this happens?
What problems are you facing on the website exactly? I'm just accessing my instance's website via Safari and it works pretty okay. I'd just recommend opening threads in a new tab, perhaps.
There isn't really an alternative to Mlem at present, so the only thing you can do is to make due with it for now and / or use the website. I mainly use the website at present because Mlem doesn't have a compact mode.
For that to happen, I believe that interacting with people from other instances and moving your community and account from one instance to another have to become possible / easier.
At present, people flock to the instances with most users as those often have more local content (local content is generally easier to find than federated content) and they often have a smaller risk of shutting down. If I create a community on a smaller instance, the chance of it being found and interacted with are also much smaller than if it had been created on a bigger instance (because of, as I said, local content being user to find).
Sure, I can create an account on myfirstlemmyinstance.com (example URL, not an actual instance) with 10 users, but if my instance decides to shut down, my community of, say, 500 users will now have to move somewhere else and all old content will be deleted.
Ideally, I think no one instance should have a million users to begin with.
Ich vermisse den Sommer nie. Herbst ist eh am besten.
That probably also depends on what instance your own, I am guessing. A lot of them are experiencing such a large and unprecedented influx of new users, it's often hard for them to cope with the existing hardware they're running on.
I think it will be similar to how it was on Mastodon. I created a Mastodon instance back during the Twitter exodoi and had a big influx of new users. But those users only posted maybe a handful of things until they stopped logging in altogether. So I am now left with like 400 registered users but maybe a few dozen or so that are still active.
Better UIs is definitely one of the main problems for mass adoption I would say. I don't have any trouble using it myself, but it can be a bit clunky.
I run a PeerTube instance and the amount of people that try following my instance with exactly THAT type of content is... astonishing. It just seems like no PeerTube instance is properly moderated.
From personal experience I can say that it runs very well at high settings! Nearly level 20 now and haven’t had any issues yet.