when i follow a lemmy community on mastodon, the "account" of the community boosts both posts and replies - that is not how it is on lemmy itself, and the replies being boosted lead to a lot of out-of-context on my timeline. why is that so, and is it possible to change it so that it boosts only posts?
Can I block/unsub certain magainzes from other fedis? For example I am getting a lot of .de content, and I can't read the language, and would rather not see it.
what's the difference between kbin and lemmy? if i go here kbin isn't on the list, so is kbin like it's own thing? still kinda trying to figure this out lol
There's a bunch of lemmy content now coming from the migration out of reddit land, but I've just tried to follow one of them (@gaming) and it works ... except I'm getting every single comment (ie. posts and replies) from that instance in my timeline, not just the top level posts. Anyone know whether that's intended, or whether there's a fix?
edit: just noting that I'm trying to follow that content on mastodon
The way lemmy groups push content to members of the groups is by boosting all posts and replies made to the group. Lemmy is designed to recognise boosts by lemmy groups, and displays them appropriately, but to an app that isn’t designed with groups in mind, all they see is a bunch of boosted content.
Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.
lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.
And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part
I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...
Not at all! Basically, the difference is mostly that each instance has their own rules and expectations of their users. As long as you end up on an instance that aligns with what you want from an instance, then you'll be fine :)