Direct link to the current release of the Top500 list: https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2026/06/ Whew Alps is barely still in the top ten.

It's largely a matter of lateral thinking and metacognition Like tripping over a bucket isn't going to make you shout eureka! But you're thinking on the problem, and you remember seeing a seller carefully packing his things up for the day into neatly sorted boxes (Or sometimes you do trip over a bucket, which reminds you of the seller) You take the root concept, sorting things using a number of containers, and then you deconstruct and reconstruct pieces of the pattern to reapply aspects of it to your problem

evidence of preparation on modelscope changelogs. also "more sizes"

It's a completely different dynamic from commercial services. It needs enough users to continue developing the software, to operate servers, and to create content on the platform. There is more than enough users on the platform to ensure that it can operate indefinitely at this point. Meanwhile, most people on Mastodon, just as the case is with Lemmy, are on it because they want an open source platform. So, they're not going to jump on another proprietary garbage platform BlueSky or W. And if a better open source platform comes along that's a win for everyone. And I'd argue that chasing growth for the sake of growth can itself be harmful. When you have a slow trickle of new users then they adapt to the existing culture of the platform. But if you have a huge influx of people all at once they can erase the existing communities in the process.

C'mon now

I've yet to see them fire a shot. Americans are too busy exhausting their multi-trillion dollar military budget playing wack-a-mole with Iranian drone operators