I don't really agree with this. I'm running a kbin instance with open registration and it's been awesome
I know there isn't much by way of mod tools, but even then it has more than the reddit app. sure it's young, but everything starts that way. don't let that stop you from experimenting and having fun
#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.
@atomicpoet I'm one of the kbin users coming from Reddit and I have fully accepted that we're going to be the crash-test wave. Emphasis on crash. That being said, Ernest has clearly shown that he's doing his hardest to handle this new influx of people and making the platform better, and I hope he'll get the support he needs to achieve that goal. And hopefully, kbin will be better prepared for the next wave that'll undoubtedly come as the API changes go into effect after the end of June. And the ones after that.
@feditips@Erik Sorry if those here already know, but I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, so... kbin is a fediverse Reddit-like alternative to Lemmy.
Looks like #Lemmy and #Kbin keep being mentioned together, which to me suggests we might have averted "mastodonization" of the #threadiverse — i.e. a situation where the whole network gets identified with a single piece of software. 🎉
Made one on Beehaw, and then because I could not figure out how to use that to login to Kbin, I just made a 2nd one for Kbin. It doesn't really bother me too much, since it's almost like ye old days of different accounts on different forums.
One here and one on kbin, but I noticed that I spent 80% of the time here. I often want to try out kbin, but the cloudflare-check I have to go through every single time I want to use kbin is annoying and it just feels more empty than Lemmy. So I often can't be bothered to go to kbin anymore and will most likely choose Lemmy as my replacement for Reddit.
I'm quite new to all of this so don't take my word as gospel but I agree with you. Earnest, the 'admin' of this instance has said he's working on getting the stability of kbin taken care of so it's only going to get better as time passes.
It's having an explosion of new users, magazine creation and general activity so it's probably going to take some time to catch up and upgrade accordingly.
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....
I'm leaving for good. I actually like kbin more, even with all the hiccups of a growing platform it's significantly more fun than Reddit has been for a while.
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly....
I know it’s an unpopular opinion here but most people are not gonna bother with kbin, lemmy or beehaw or what instances are, federated, microblog…. Reddit is not dead until a better, easier more intuitive alternative exists, and this ain’t it
Found out about kbin from a post saying the fgc community was setting up there. I liked it but wanted to use a mobile app so made an account here and I'm liking it too so far. I learned to like the mobile browser ui for kbin as well but now I feel like both platforms can have their own place.
I imagine it's because "active" is showing recently created zines. That's a poor algorithm for what is actually active. It should be based on number of comments and threads. It's making it very difficult to find hip places I might want to subscribe to.
Not sure if this is the exact answer, but say you have a kbin user and a lemmy "magazine" or whatever they call them there. Once the kbin person joins the lemmy thing it automatically federated. However, it does not "back populate" the kbin. Kbin will only see new posts going forward after the federation.
I'm also confused because some of those communities that are on other instances such as lemmy.world actually have activity even though they don't display anything in kbin. For instance the lemmy.world motorcycles community has activity but none of that is displayed when searching for motorcycles via kbin.
I'm sure it's not going to last forever as this site grows in popularity but I feel like I can talk about whatever with minimal judgement here (and just overall no anxiety in comparison to everywhere else), just nice vibes all around ^^
I think the biggest thing that I didn't really notice at first was just how Reddit 'works'. It was very much 'what you see is what you get' and didn't really take much to figure out how to use it.
With anything new though there's a learning curve and after 24 hours or so on kbin, I'm starting to figure out how this and the wider Fediverse works and it's feeling more and more like home.
Also Reddit is also 18 years old (in a few days) and has 52million+ users so there's obviously more content. As this platform grows it will be easier to get the content you want but at the moment it's going to take some work from the user to search for magazines and contribute.
Kinda wanna use kbin on my instance but looking at posts and browsing seem to be much better at the actual kbin UI. Mmh if i want to share stuff here i can at least do it still. But browsing kbin feels better at an actual kbin instance.
There was a post about how beehaw was defederating from shitjustworks and lemmy.world about 6 hours ago. Are we involved in that, as are we a subset of lemmyworld?...
I'm not super-familiar with the inner workings of kbin yet; my gut reaction is that if a magazine only has microblogs, it's because nobody's made threads in it yet? I don't think there's an option to prevent threads in a magazine.
I really miss chatrooms in general, and I thought we were due for a comeback for the year or two reddit was running them, what with the userbase they have.
PHP is not, in itself, inherently bad. The newer versions are performant and if you are a good programmer, you can produce completely fine stuff with it.
The problem is that it's flexibility leads to sloppy programming, which leads to projects that turn into a cluster. A good example is WordPress. I'd argue WordPress itself is well written. Once you add a dozen or so badly written plugins though it becomes a mess.
A lot of the criticism is the same that JavaScript gets. It's a loosely typed language. So "1" is different than 1. The first is a string and the second is an integer. So if you add 1+1 you could end up with 11 instead of 2.
Again, this isn't a problem if you're a disciplined dev, but we're not a breed known for our discipline ;)
When I tried Kbin it was slow, which I attributed to badly written PHP code. However, I didn't do the research to confirm this was the case.
Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile,...
Twitter is a extremely good fit for ActivityPub as there you are following users, while in Lemmy you primarily follow communities whose strength is determined by number. !technology on beehaw is better than !technology on an instance of 10 people.
By centralized, I mean to be in the 1-4 large instances on Lemmy that people flock to from smaller instances. Right now, the design of the Fediverse encourages former Redditors to join the biggest instances. Discovery tools might spread out the users and make solo instances more viable, but the activity may still be concentrated in the same few instances.
Every instance has the potential to be standalone like Tildes by defederating from everybody else once they hit critical mass. Like Truth Social on Mastodon. Or Kbin before it Federated.
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/
I think you should see something....
How many accounts do you have on lemmy/kbin?
First time posting, but i was wondering if i was the only one who had more than 2 accounts in total on here
What are some magazines you'd like to see on kbin that don't exist yet?
Are there any communities you've not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?...
Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....
ich_iel (feddit.de) German
Gibt es schon einen offiziellen eingebürgerten Namen fürs "Fediverse"?
Opinion: anyone who takes over a sub reddit because original mods closed it in protest, should face community outrage
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly....
Reasons For Joining
To all of the members who didn't come from Reddit, what inspired you to join Lemmy?
When I click "all magazines" and sort by active, it's just a bunch of zero comment zero thread posts.
I imagine it's because "active" is showing recently created zines. That's a poor algorithm for what is actually active. It should be based on number of comments and threads. It's making it very difficult to find hip places I might want to subscribe to.
First time I feel completely chill with talking on social media (thank you Lemmy)
I'm sure it's not going to last forever as this site grows in popularity but I feel like I can talk about whatever with minimal judgement here (and just overall no anxiety in comparison to everywhere else), just nice vibes all around ^^
What is one thing that you miss the most about reddit?
I miss that i could google something, write reddit in the end and the results would be honest and not ads or trash
Are we 'Shadowbanned' from beehaw?
There was a post about how beehaw was defederating from shitjustworks and lemmy.world about 6 hours ago. Are we involved in that, as are we a subset of lemmyworld?...
Is there any chance kbin will give chatrooms a go like reddit did? Except maybe get it right and not abandon it halfway through?
I really miss chatrooms in general, and I thought we were due for a comeback for the year or two reddit was running them, what with the userbase they have.
In case anyone has moral issues with migrating to Lemmy vs Kbin, check this out. (kbin.social)
So yea, turns out the dude stole a lot of code from other projects and people.
The Lemmy User Experience is Better When Centralized into Fewer Instances
Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile,...