this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 124 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Most users are in US or western Europe timezones I would guess.

Although you could say the whole planet has a bit of a heart beat. Surely there are fewer people awake when the Pacific ocean faces the sun?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago

the whole planet has a bit of a heart beat.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My guess would be this is one of the few major bots that ramp up its posting during Prime Times. I've been trying to use the fediversee for almost a year now and I check post multiple times a day, everyday. The vast, and I mean upwards of 90% or more of the post in my feed are just repost bots from Reddit or news aggregator bots. I'd be surprised if more than 10% of the post generated come from actual humans. I'm sure some of the server owners could give us much more insight on this with post by IP statistics. But my guest regardless is human interaction is pretty low.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Turn off bots in your profile and then ban the two or three bots that aren’t marked as bots and your feed will improve immensely. I forget that there even are bots on this site until someone mentions it in a comment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I come more for the commentary not the source honestly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

You can just block bot users when you see them. In my experience, it's not a big problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’d be surprised if more than 10% of the post generated come from actual humans.

I have the opposite impression, that's interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If you check posts that have low upvote amounts, (say 0 - 20) you are more likely to see this phenomenon, especially in the technology communities.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Definitely a high presence of US users and the occassional (western) European among all.
Most of the times they represent themselve through their instance.

But it's the same as with Reddit: Mentioning a thing without mentioning a country = US.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Ah, my favorite way of trolling when I felt like it. Dispute something and eventually go "Ah, sorry didn't know you were US specific with this" when I finally learn the revelation.

[–] jws_shadotak 95 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Based on that EKG, the fediverse is in some sort of v-tach and blood is not pumping efficiently enough to have a pulse

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will go get the AED. Keep Doing compressions till I return.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dude it's been 3 hours, where did you go for that AED? I don't mind continuing compressions, but my lips are really getting chapped.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shit, we forgot to call EMS didn't we?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] jws_shadotak 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It looks like a mix of both, but the widened QRS complexes are what I'm going off of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I suppose the treatment is the same. I'll start compressions if you don't mind getting the defibrillator and drawing up some epi

[–] jws_shadotak 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'll take care of compressions

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's flatten that curve!!

Like, more users and all over the globe I mean.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let’s flatten that curve!!

mom?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Let’s flatten that curve!!

covid?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

when_the_americans_wake_up.png

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Most online services experience this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

aww its kinda cute

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

This is neat to see, and also the case for every website and online game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

most games do too, unless you're TF2

rhymes on a dime

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is seasonality.

Seasonality is a characteristic of a time series and refers to periodic and generally regular and predictable changes that occur over a year.

To make it more generic, drop the “over a year” and just refer to the periodic signal over time idea. You can find additional signals by how you bin the data, eg monthly or day of week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seasonality specifically refers to periodic signals over the course of a year. Any other interval means it's not seasonality. You can read that yourself in the definition you quoted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I do this for a living. Seasonality as a generic term refers to temporally periodic signals but can even be extended to talk about non-temporal aspects of a signal. The same math used in areas like econometrics to remove periodicity in annual data can be applied to multiple domains. The main motivation to removing or isolating periodicity is to allow for investigation into the underlying phenomena, or to allow the investigation of the sources of periodicity independently of other drivers. In every case, though, seasonality is an acceptable term in everything I’ve written, read, and worked on.