You absolutely need an external crawler for all the instances. Realtime queries don't really scale to thousands instances. In fact, I would like to know whether current federation can deal with that. It's a solvable problem im principle, see e.g. ipfs.
Hey Kbin-folk, I’ve recently published my take on the “threadiverse” in the form of a quasi-guide but with some other commentary. Appreciate any feedback, good or bad!
The content won't drop. Especially if we create new homes for the refugees to come. As always, scratch your own itch. Don't assume somebody else steps up to the task. It might be work, but it's only once.
I've been more active on Reddit than in years. Need to assist people with their exits and preparing mine. The mobile hammer drops in a few days, and I expect to be completely wiped before old.reddit.com is dead.
Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.
My answer was stopping modding, stopping posting and now a data takeout and GDPR deletion request (and a complaint because they will fail to honor it) on the way out. I would have done it years ago if there was a place to migrate to.
My account is 16+ year old and has 300 k combined karma. I will be sure to contact my data protection officer to complain. Reddit needs an audit to document they wipe the db properly, and the data is gone from backups. Not just my data, anything they got on me.
No problem. Most lemmy instances currently experience some growing pains due to sudden influx of new users. Meanwhile we have to be patient and use e.g. https://lemmy.world instead of the mobile app you are using. Or try a different app, I personally am looking forward to Slide for Lemmy.
Google and Microsoft broke email interoperability. I absolutely would have wanted open source hosters walling off from them. Now it's too late for email. It's not too late for the Fediverse.
So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now....
I actually think there are now enough, and we could rather do without memes and consumers of them. It would be more useful to bring the niche technical communities over.
So just recreate those you care about, prime the pump and invite the key contributors over.
It's not an anonymity network, just autorouted overlay (but can do L2 eventually) IPv6-only user-side encrypted decentralized network with explicit peering. You can run i2p over it as well as anything else as long it can do IPv6-only.
I think most of us who moved here from Reddit are enjoying our time here on kbin.social. We've left a lot of the riff-raff behind us and made new friends with intelligent, thoughtful members of kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.....
My first Lemmy account is now almost 4 years old. Only now has latest egress wave reached criticality. Lemmy is still very much work in progress and if you can run your own instance, you should.
I haven't bothered with approval and installed an illegal 1.6 kWp system, and illegally (but safely) have the meter running backwards some of the time. Averaging 6 kWh/day so far. So make about half of the electricity I consume in a year.
I will probably add some storage next year, or so.
It's obvious that Reddit as a company has no respect for its users and less than that for the mods. It's a thankless, difficult job that isn't even a paid position. I think a lot of us have probably quit real jobs for less bs than Reddit has pulled....
I've modded a few communities I created and a few others. I dropped many of them over the years but two, and will be leaving these soon. The reason was admin abuse and user toxicity.
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....
Threadiversal Travel - A guide for Lemmy, Kbin and general Reddit off-ramping (shellsharks.com)
Hey Kbin-folk, I’ve recently published my take on the “threadiverse” in the form of a quasi-guide but with some other commentary. Appreciate any feedback, good or bad!
I haven't been on Reddit since the 11th... Anyone else?
Just realized that the other day....
Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.
Reddit user alleges California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) non-compliance/violtion; and finds it difficult to delete posts and content on Reddit (youtube.com)
Video description as of 2023-06-23 10:15 PDT:...
Reddit violates CCPA (youtu.be)
This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.
Scicomm.xyz admin explains why their Mastodon instance is proactively defederating from Meta's Threads (about.scicomm.xyz)
The statement Reddit gave us is the oldest trick in the book. (The Verge) (www.tiktok.com)
Youtube link
On bringing more users to Lemmy
So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now....
Yggdrasil Network (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
Why we need to move on from kbin.social
I think most of us who moved here from Reddit are enjoying our time here on kbin.social. We've left a lot of the riff-raff behind us and made new friends with intelligent, thoughtful members of kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.....
The Titanic sure does have some stubborn guests (lemmy.one)
I don't understand this attitude at all... Some people are better off staying on Reddit IMO
In New Record, Solar and Wind Generated More Electricity Than Coal for First 5 Months of Year (www.ecowatch.com)
Solar and wind power generation has set a new record, with more power generated than coal for the first five months of 2023.
Real question: Why don't the mods just all quit?
It's obvious that Reddit as a company has no respect for its users and less than that for the mods. It's a thankless, difficult job that isn't even a paid position. I think a lot of us have probably quit real jobs for less bs than Reddit has pulled....
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