Leftover roast pork on toast. Itttt's crunch time!

At work I mean. Not the pork. The crackling is completely floppy :<

Oh hey, it looks like image uploading works now! But they've added this silly new "feature" where it complains if your image is too high resolution, instead of just resizing it for you. The max size allowed seems to be 1MB.

Late night roast pork.

Crackling failed (it's kinda... solid) but the fat came out ethereal, it just melts in your mouth. Lucky! The trick seems to be to (1) make a foil boat around the pork belly on all sides but the top, so it steams and doesn't dry out, and (2) to not score the surface too deeply, so the inner fatty goodness don't bubble out when it renders.

Western meat techniques are generally so much easier than Asian ones. Very little prep (like 10-15 mins) and the cooking is in bulk and passively in the oven!

Oh no, am I the weirdo!?? (Yeah I know I'm a weirdo :')

I don't think it's wrong to be in regular contact btw. And I guess I have other ways to express care, like I don't mind spending solid chunks of time on relationship-related projects. But I'm the kind of person who has a hard time sticking to stable routines, so having this always-on obligation to send messages/ be responsive to messages feels super heavy to me.

Please don't let me be the only one! Haha.

Aaaaa I'm in this photo and I don't like it :< I think I might be #2 and #9, ask me anything lol

Thanks for the detailed thinking!! Btw to other readers, the way we work on the admin team is to actively invite disagreement, so that we get to see more angles, so that we can make better decisions. (That's why we ask for feedback all the time too!)

User acquisition vs user retention

• I think much of your comments are around user retention.
  • I 100% agree that retention is a big and real problem we have. E.g. I'm hearing lots of complaints about how hard it is to get into Lemmy (esp with 0.17.4 and the crap app support).
  • In fact, this is an excellent point: I'll start thinking about how to get us some retention metrics (% new users who end up sticking around)
• That said, most of these measures are aimed at solving a separate but related problem, which is user acquisition – creating sources of new users to balance churn:
  • Everyone who is here got here either through a r/malaysia sticky or the lemmyverse.
  • The problem I'm seeing is that retention will never be 100%. There will always be a churn rate, where some % of users leave every week.
  • Example: If our churn rate is 5% of users per week (say that's 10 users), and our retention rate is 10%, every week we must convince 100 users to come try us, or else our active userbase shrinks!
  • That's why I'm hoping to create funnels which attract eyeballs from r/my (theme weeks) and the lemmyverse (!Malaysia) on a regular basis, even if we don't keep most of them.
• User acquisition and retention work hand-in-hand though.
  • There's no point driving millions of users here if keep zero because the site sucks
  • But if the site is great but we don't have regular flows of new users, churn will kill us in a few months just the same :(
• Thinking about your input has been very clarifying btw. I completely agree that we need get much better at user retention too. I'll stew on this.

monyet.cc's value proposition

• IMO, the question we don't have clear answers to yet is, what makes users stick around in the long term?
• I think the theory you're going on is that building a warmer and livelier cafe will do it
  • This might be true, we all love !cafe :)
  • My concern is that what we're doing there "competes" directly with r/my's daily thread, r/mys, and LYN's kopitiam.
  • So this might not be enough to convince users to stick around just by itself. We may need to offer some other differentiation.
  • Most of us early users are committed to the idea of building a new colony. But normies get their value in other ways!
• The other theory I have is that some users may stick around if we have (a) "deep" feeds of local content they can't get on r/my and r/mys (Malaysian dating, hobbies, investment), which are (b) structured in a way that they can't get on LYN (best content upvoted, deeply threaded discussions)
  • This is totally untested as well, but IMO it's worth testing. Because if true, this is an untapped resource that we can build on.
  • For example, if we have a strong !cars community, every car obsessive we remove from r/malaysia for Rule 3 can be sent here to grow the site
• This is definitely still an open question though, I think the only way to find out is to run the experiments!
  • But more thinking and ideas are super welcome so we can keep sharpening as we go!

!Malaysia

• Hmm yeah, we still need more clarity on how to use this. E.g. I just figured out that like on reddit, crossposting splits the comment sections :(
• But there's super strong evidence that this is an important acquisition funnel - have a look at the community lists by size: lemmy.ca, aussie.zone, feddit.uk
• I don't think it's an accident that all three have a !Country community at the top. I suspect what is happening here is that many Fediverse / Lemmyverse users already have a home base elsewhere (e.g. on lemmy.world), but want a single !Country sub from us, that they can add to their feed
• And if we can get on users' feeds, that's a gateway to our other communities!

Upgrade complete, we're now on 0.18.1! Feedback welcome if you run into bugs and bad behavior!

Guacamole on toast.

Ahh can feel the health points reentering my body. And surprisingly easy and tasty to slap together (onion, tomato, lime, olive oil). But there go my dreams of home ownership though

Supermarket chicken, tofu and veg. Cosy home lunches yayy

Might grill myself a steak tonight though, need something unhealthy in my life

One more thanks for the shoutout! That seems have created a noticeable traffic bump. Welcome, fediverse visitors!

Switching to "All" mode has not been a bad reddit replacement for me imo! On my feed literally right now: Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users? lol

After reading the Lemmy guide more carefully, I think we have way more users than I thought yesterday:

• I think the 1.62k users are locally registered users, not federated users! This means we're actually growing steadily by about 20-30 local registrations a day. (Yesterday we were at 1.6k, day before at 1.57k, etc.)
• The 67 users/week is the number of users who have posted or commented within the last week. There are way more users registered, but they're lurking.
• This lines up with r/malaysia! Over there we have 360k subscribers and 6.4m views per month, but popular posts generally get 1k upvotes. So a huge proportion of the sub lurks and never even upvotes.
• This gives me hope that we can build this into something that will survive the long haul. We've built a nice community together on r/my and it'd suck to lose it if reddit declined.
• Hello lurkers! :)

Oh, tagging @Naomikho@monyet.cc and @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc since we were talking about this yesterday.

Thanks for asking guise! It's cheap, Lemmy is written to be very resource efficient! Domain is USD10/y, hosting is about USD20/month.

And hosting is actually overprovisioned and could probably be USD5-10/month. I got a slightly bigger VM just in case (2 CPUs, 2GB RAM). But I'm seeing CPU % at 2.5% with just one spike to 10% in the last day. RAM holding steady at 52%.

Zero issues covering costs for this experimental stage btw! We don't know how this will go yet. And things have been good career wise lately. But yeah if we start seeing real traffic and need to pay for big boy servers, we may need to figure out something with the community!

Testing username tagging. @solus@monyet.cc @some_random_meatbag@monyet.cc @unhedged@monyet.cc (garr why doesn't this work!?)