Steve Huffman is threatening to put scabs in charge of communities on Reddit that protest Reddit's abysmal management of the upcoming API changes re: 3PA and accessibility.
TechTrump Wannabe Jr is wrong about it not having user support. Our community (70K+ users) is mostly positive to the protest, judging by the reactions of our updates on the matter. We're now looking into setting up an alternative on Lemmy.
Hey y'all, do you think that all the subreddits will transfer over to magazines, or some might not make the cut? Not sure if there is any censorship or anything or if it is wild west out here. Are there any you wouldn't be stoked seeing here and representing this community?
Eta: posted in askkbin originally, realized better suited for here.
There are a few disparate trends that are currently happening in the fediverse, that are all influencing each other, but are not forming into one single clear narrative. Meta’s new project, named probably Threads (earlier codenames P92 and Barcelona) is on the verge of joining the fediverse in some capacity. How to approach Meta continues to be subject of debate. The growth of Lemmy and Kbin (nicknamed the ‘threadiverse’) is signalling a clear shift in the fediverse as well. Beyond the inflow of people itself, it also signals the power of federation and interoperability to people. People on the fediverse have largely internalised the concept that you can talk to other people that are also microblogging on different servers. But experiencing is something else, as this post described it:
“Until recently, I understood the theoretical practicality of an interoperable protocol such as ActivityPub. But being able to experience it in practice is truly something else.”
If you are looking for a writeup for the situation with Reddit, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good overview here. It ends with a section on the move towards the fediverse, placing the move towards the threadiverse as a flight away from Reddit.
Lemmy developers @dessalines and @nutomicposted an update about Lemmy, detailing their experience over the last few weeks. Beyond mentioning the sudden growth, they also note that the way their financials are structured, this sudden large growth is detrimental to their finances. The developers work full time on Lemmy, and can do this via a grant from NLNet, that pays out if the developers deliver certain milestones. But this extra work due to the large inflow of people inhibits working on the milestones that pay money, which is an interesting side effect of how NLNet grants work. They also mention the critiques of being called fascists, and their alleged support of genocide. They deny these allegations, and call them slender, linking to two other posts explaining the history of Lemmy. These posts list (among other things) grievances with the politics of Reddit, but it is unclear how these posts refute the allegations that are made.
This article called ‘ talks about the issues at Reddit, and zooms in on the financial aspect. It is an important aspect that I feel is not discussed enough. Looking past the surface of all the drama that is currently happening, and you find that Reddit has raised 1.3 billion USD from investors who want a return on that money. As Reddit is currently not profitable, it is safe to assume that Reddit will feel like it has to implement other measures to improve their cashflow. It also seems likely that some of these measures might not be popular with users. In short, the financial side of the equation makes it likely that new drama with Reddit will surface, and with it, new waves of migration to Lemmy and Kbin.
The spreadmastodon website has officially launched. This unaffiliated project is aimed at reducing friction for people entering the fediverse. It allows for easy and direct signup to Mastodon. This currently leads to mastodon.social. They also launched a proposal on how to spread people towards other servers as well.
Ebou is now open source. It is a cross-platform desktop client for Mastodon. Instead of organising posts in a feed, it organises posts by user, like a messaging app would.
The Mastodon server home.social has shut down. Multiple admins of other servers had offered to take over the server hosting, but these offers had not been taken up upon.
The fediverse hosted their own #fedivision party this week, where people could vote on the most popular songs created by fediverse users.
On other networks
A few links with news about other decentralized networks that might be of relevance:
A vision for decentralized content moderation for Nostr. The core design thinking for Nostr is based around censorship resistance, an idea which is often in an uneasy balance with content moderation and safety. This proposal by nos.social provides a vision on how to deal with this.
One of the developers for Bluesky, Paul Frazee, explains some of his current thinking on how Bluesky can implement hashtags. Direct link, and image screenshot here. Some ideas, such as placing hashtags in a separate field, might be of interest to fediverse software as well. Calckey already has a separate field, but no real away of making them less visually prominent. The ActivityPub plugin for WordPress allows you to add completely invisible hashtags to federated articles.
A deep dive into the proposed federation architecture for Bluesky.
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“Einer der Organisatoren des Protests erklärte, für ihn und viele Teilnehmenden wäre der erste bestätigte Fall [eines durch Reddit ersetzten Mods] die rote Linie, die ihn überzeugen würde "alles niederzubrennen und Reddit komplett zu verlassen”.”
Can we all get together and beg Christian to make an Apollo for Kbin/Lemmy? I'm loving both experiences so far, and WISH I could browse both from one optimized app. I know there are federation issues right now, but I still like the idea of an all in-one app considering the similarities between them
How bad would it be if I copy/pasted the rules and description from a subreddit to make a magazine here, if I asked the mods for permission and haven’t received a reply in a week?
Curious about the viability of making an instance that's like just me, or just my friends? Seems like it'd be cool to not have to worry about the pressure of huge swaths of people joining, and it would provide a private place to socialize while still being part of the bigger picture, if I'm understanding how things work. Does this seem like a good idea, or is it defeating the purpose?
Reddit should begin to pay people for their contributions to the platform, or barring that, people should leave Reddit and share their writing in different ways.
Are there any migration tools that can take a users list of subreddits and automatically subscribe to the corresponding or similar community in the fediverse?
I can't always see things on other servers from kbin.social. For example, I can't access !wish from kbin.social. Also, I can't sign up on lemmy.ml. What is going on?
Maybe a stupid question but is there an app to use kbin? It works fine with safari so far but I am wondering if an app would not improve kbin usability more.
Today was my last day at Reddit. All the years of faithful service that I gave them did not matter. Reddit was not able to avoid failure to retain me....
Ok so thanks to the #RedditMigration i set up a #kbin account myself - the #fediverse might include the #threadiverse but while following #Lemmy communities (i.e. sub) from my current fedi account will show ALL activity on the community, following a kbin magazine (i.e. sub) from this account shows NO activity on my feed.
I can engage with activity from either protocols from this account however as commenter.
If you're on either threadiverse protocols, you can follow external subs as federated content and engage fully (up/downvotes; comments; sort) plus the usual fedi behaviour in following other fedi accounts.
Conclusion (if like me, you're reluctant to do duplicate/mirror accounts in general): if you want to also follow link-aggregator fedi platforms and their subs, open an account in any of the L/k instances and follow the local or federated subs from that account.
Is anyone else having issues loading Reddit comments older than ~6mo? I'm running a script to edit all my past comments in protest (I intend to then delete the account) and when I load my user page to monitor progress, I can't get past 6 months.
