@tchambers You know, I'm not even THAT mad at Reddit but am still considering deleting my account just because of how nice it's felt to break the doomscrolling the last couple days
We've got @devnull working on it. I'm hoping we don't miss the boat by the time it can be rolled out, but we want to do right by the #fediverse and come out swinging with a highly interoperable frontend to the fediverse-at-large.
Stay tuned here for more info as the story (and branch) develops!
@narF This is one of the intriguing things to me about @nodebb et al coming to the fediverse, they've developed good mod tools over the years and that could be a big help here! @devnull
@jdp23@narF@devnull indeed! We've worked with big AAA gaming companies to really build out our moderation tooling. Both #Bethesda and #Ubisoft collaborated with us to improve our flagging and user mod tools, and the challenge with #ActivityPub is figuring out how to federate these tools.
One of the cool things about the #redditmigration & the rise of #Kbin & #Lemmy is it is a big positive to both the #threadiverse and the existing users on the Fedi:
On the Threadiverse side: Lots of brand new blood from fleeing Reddit new users now discovering the Fediverse for the first time. New blood. New ideas.
On the Masto/Fedi side:
I think many are seeing REAL federation from/to an entirely other type of Fedi platform for the first time in the wild.
It really works. Opening eyes.
@tchambers It makes people see that every project connected to the fediverse already has a headstart of users, they don't need to start from scratch. Hope this encourages more projects
@tchambers Your new instance, magazines, posts have been a huge assist. Having people established on Mastodon shepherding the new users on and helping to answer questions, reduce confusion, etc. all while not tone policing is nice to see.
The power of the Fediverse is definitely starting to come into focus. I honestly think it will be a paradigm shift for content creators if they embrace it. It's a bit thrilling to watch unfold.
@breadbin they've added a "forum" feature a while ago, so you actually can make static threads which would remedy that. still, the lack of discoverability with no way of previewing the community without making an account and joining it, and the content not being available to search indexers are my biggest concerns. apart from it being owned by a company ready to sell you out at any second, of course. @tchambers
#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.
But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts today.
While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.
A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.
This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.
While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.
Why is #Kbin gaining on #Lemmy? I believe it’s for three reasons:
1- Lemmy is politically controversial with its founders commonly regarded as “tankies”, and the flagship Lemmy instance (lemmy.ml) commonly found on Fediblock lists
2- Kbin is slightly more user-friendly than Lemmy, offers better social discovery options, and integrates much better with the rest of the Fediverse than Lemmy
3- From an end user perspective, Kbin behaves more according to what you would expect from a Fediverse platform, and consequently has less hoops to jump through if you’re already familiar with the Fediverse
That said, Kbin isn’t necessarily better than Lemmy yet. It’s still very much an alpha project. But it’s a damn good alpha project.
Today, I had someone who intended on running a #Lemmy server call me up and say, “I’ve changed my mind. I want to run #Kbin instead.”
They feel that Kbin has less political baggage, more potential, and is easier to use than Lemmy.
That might not be the case from an admin perspective. But if your goal is to appeal to end users, it’s probably better to put up with Kbin’s rough edges.
Mastodon is experiencing a pretty significant surge in new users today. Probably because of people leaving Reddit and establishing themselves on the #Fediverse.
#Reddit immigrants welcome to open distributed social media! It is a really good idea to create a #Mastodon account in addition to a #kbin or #Lemmy account to enjoy the full suite of capabilities available to you here.
Reddit to Wayback Machine is a Firefox add-on that converts Reddit links to archive.org links. Useful to access past user-generated content without going to reddit directly.
P.S : This is a reminder to support archive.org if you can. They help preserve what we created against the whims of capitalists. So many things would be lost without that amazing project
Signs of the #RedditMigration in action: Three of the top 6 fastest growing #Fediverse servers are not only not Mastodon.social but they are not even microblogging servers - but rather are #Threadiverse servers.
That is only seriously good for the entire Fedi infrastructure. Diversity is strength.
@m_artigiani hello from the threadiverse :) on kbin we have content split up into two categories "threads" and "microblogs". This is under our RedditMigration magazine in the microblogs section. Y'all on mastodon should be able to follow us and engage as normal and even appear in our "threads" section at times (depending on the context of the posts).
@clacke yeah, they used the hashtag #RedditMigration, which is the @RedditMigration magazine has listed as one of the tags to "pull in". here on kbin everything is organized based on magazines which are our "subreddits" and they have a threads section (works like reddit) and a "microblogs" section which has an assortment of mastodon posts (and posts from kbin users as well in this section). the magazine moderators can choose which hashtags to have added to there.
I don't know if a post can be sent to multiple magazines, but when I browse the general "all" section for microblogs, all of the top-level mastodon posts all have a category. most of them end up in @random which is essentially for unsorted/uncategorized posts. but some will just have some particular one. I've added a screenshot to show what this looks like. you can see it just lists the magazine name with it.
@Blakerboy777 In order to keep the service mostly functioning during the huge load spike it was put behind cloudflare with it's anti-ddos protection stuff enabled (that's why you get those "checking security" things when you load pages sometimes).
That stuff also interferes with the endpoints that different activity-pub sites use to talk to eachother, so other site posts/interactions aren't showing up here reliably right now, and the reverse.
Sorry you had a bad experience! I'm the only person working on this in my free time and just trying to make something useful for people. I've implemented almost all feature requests so far :)
I'd be happy to investigate your performance issues if you're willing to share more about how you use sub.rehab - OS, browser, device.
I'll look into the submission form issues you mentioned.
The code for the website is open source. You can inspect it to see what it does - nothing hidden :)
@gerry I am very grateful, if my list, consisting only of equivalents of protesting subreddits, and not thoroughly updated since few weeks, still remains more quality, than subrehab. I actually considered them the most comprehensive list of official equivalents (including the same moderation teams), and pointed to them as more up to date. Maybe I will use their data to make my list more complete.
"Reddit is discovering the same thing that Twitter is also discovering: when you build a service where the value is all the free content that users provide, you’re going to run into some problems when you suddenly start acting like you 'own' all that, and you feel the need to put up paywalls for access.... at some point those users are going to realize they have the power to go elsewhere."
honestly it's extremely not surprising that the first pillar to fall in terms of class consciousness is online communities
like sure, people are gonna be striking and protesting more and more often, but online communities are going to be the first places where corporate power is completely seized and community power will win
it's clear that companies are already panicking and hoping to not find out how long it'll take before the world is oops all unions
@Em0nM4stodon@briankrebs@jerry I am desperately looking for a social fix to fill the hole that my Reddit abandonment has created, but for the life of me, can’t find how best to go about it, the differences between platforms and how, or if, they all talk to one another. It’s a little tiring.