Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned (recommended?) On r/ModCoord. Other people on this thread are suspecting delayed reporting or bots, possibly. We don't know. Maybe @ernest has an idea.
I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.
As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
If legit then this is fantastic!
I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was nothing stopping automated account creation or something (I'm not tech savvy enough to know exact6what he meant) and as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I'm hoping this isn't just a flood of bots.
I know it's early...but this seems a better start than Mastodon! Hope it sticks! Even if we get a fourth of reddit's numbers I think we can have a great community!
What was the Reddit userbase increase at the time of the Digg exodus? Or the Slashdot exodus? I'd be happy with those numbers. The ball should roll from there, especially as people get their grips with the concept of federation.
So exciting! I’m planning on starting up my own instance for my family to use, so that way other people who don’t have the overhead or knowledge to self host can have my bandwidth 😁
Mastodon is like Twitter, Lemmy is similar to reddit, and Kbin combines both functionalities with different terminology. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in !
Beehaw seemed like a good idea, I just don't think it'll be implemented well.
Like the idea of having an "entrance essay" would be cool, but you're jumping thru hoops and if you don't answer exactly how the runners want youre just never able to login, and everyone outside the walled garden didn't have to go thru it. So there's no real benefit on any other instance.
Not to mention there's zero way to tell if something was wrong with how you responded or they just haven't gotten to it yet. I expressed hesitation with their method, I dont know if that got me denied or they're swamped. But I stopped checking after like 2 days and I doubt I'll ever try to sign in again through them.
So it's a terrible entrance point for the fediverse, and weird it's so recommended
Mastodon is primarily a microblogging social media platform akin to Twitter. The other two are primarily multi-forum board akin to Reddit.
All three rely on the ActivityPub protocol, so there is some intercommunication between them (esp. between Lemmy and Kbin). That's why they're often referenced in the same breath. That, and most websites operating under these standards are not run for commercial profit.
Mastodon: Like Twitter. You can follow people, or #hashtags.
Lemmy: Like Reddit. Subreddits on Lemmy are "communities". Different instances have different communities.
Kbin: Both Lemmy and Mastodon combined. Subreddits on Kbin are called "magazines". Posts can be made to magazines directly, plus Mastodon posts with #hashtags will be automatically cross-posted to the appropriate community.
All of them are part of the "fediverse". Because of this, they can all talk to each other. You can follow Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines from Mastodon. Kbin allows you to follow Mastodon users from Kbin.
All that changes is how the content is displayed. Lemmy displays it like Reddit. Mastodon displays it like Twitter. Kbin has different tabs that let you switch between both.
For some reason I can't yet find my kbin account on my masterdon instead. But the other way around does work. I can search on my mastodon account on kbin :)
Interesting - I can see you just fine by searching @melroy@kbin.melroy.org on Mastodon.
Bear in mind that if you subscribe to yourself, you will only see new comments/posts you make. Historical data won't be brought over because of storage limitations.
seems to work now for me... Sorry about the confusing, if kbin is correctly configured.. Mastodon should be able to find your Kbin account as well.. Ideally?
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