Like many, when the recent defederation went down, I decided to create a couple other logins and see what the wider fediverse has had to say about it....
People also need to be mindful that the concept of the fediverse isn't a simple one, not to the majority of people who use Reddit / other sites. We want to try and streamline the process of searching for, signing up to and contributing to content, at least if we want these platforms to continue to grow.
We don't need the 400+ million that Reddit has but having more interested users will help generate more content / engagement
Exactly, at the start of the growth phase for new sites, people want things to look stable. Seeing drama from Z site because Y site disconnected from them can look pretty unappealing
I know the overall sentiment is that size doesn't matter, but to new users looking at these sites, that want to see recent posts and engagement. We want people coming from Reddit to feel like the site is growing so they get invested and contribute.
It's still early days though so keen to see how this pans out over the next few weeks, especially with the API ending on the 1st of July. Think we'll get another wave of uptick.
Edit: It seems like there's enough people that would prefer this didn't happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I'm not going to move forward with this idea....
I'd be pretty keen on an automated bot that pulls in top content. Most of these posts usually link back to an article, image or video anyway so the value would be creating the post here and generating the conversation (I'd argue the real value we want to focus on here are the comments)
Yeah I think overall condensing the layout and shuffling things around to minimize the vertical space will make scrolling through the posts easier.
There's a few places on the single post view that could use some optimisation also (like condensing the height of the comments so you can see more at a time) but I'm feeling the feed layout is the most important right now with people coming over to see what kbin is all about
There's a fair few things that I think would be super handy to have on the post layout, like a better distinction between what's posted locally on kbin.social VS what's coming in extremely from XYZ site (maybe a little icon representing the server it's coming from might be nice)
These changes are mostly just styles, but I've heard others are interested in adding more functionally to the post view. To me I'm mostly interesred in the upvote/downvote button because that's the main thing you do on Reddit, but even other conditional buttons like a save or favorite button could be super handy.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
I think this will be a 4-6 week process where people stop using their old Reddit apps and either migrate to the official app, old.reddit or to that federated sites.
I don't think it'll ever get as big as Reddit overall but so long as a good number of people come across to sites like Lemmy or kbin and are engaged, it'll be a vibrant place in no time.
Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn't exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
I feel the vast majority of new people joining these federated sites are coming from Reddit, so having the discourse centered around getting them in, explaining how things work and so on is pretty important for user adoption.
I know there's an underlying feeling that these redditors are all going to flood the place but the more people using these sites and the more engagement can only be a positive
Yeah I think people are underestimating how much time was invested. Imagine if Gmail just up and vanished and you had to use something else after being so invested, ofcourse people are going to be talking about it for ages until the annoyance passes
I'm enjoying all of that subreddit changes and oddities that are popping up. Also pretty keen on seeing some of the random new community starting both on here and squabbles such as this one: https://squabbles.io/s/OnlyFlans
His tone deaf approach has already led to heaps of people fleeing / reassessing their options. Wouldn't of known about these sites if it weren't for this prick
I'm mostly focused on going to a place and seeing lots of posts and comments. Behind the scenes, the tech that powers it? While I'm interested in it from a tech stand point, most regular people just don't care.
Probably the integration of modding tools like AutoMod would be heaps handy here, it could automatically flag potentially troublesome posts and help cut back on spam / bad actors.
From memory Reddit uses automod and so does twitch / discord. Though I'm not sure if they actively let you integrate with it directly on third party sites
Kbin has been feeling really lively since the Reddit migration. The admin seems to be pretty busy making improvements to the UI / infrastructure. Keen to see what he does next
Yeah I'm also interested in seeing how all of these sites work and looking at ways I can help improve it. The whole positing process / propagation process seems pretty complex though so I'll probably let the more familiar devs work on it for now.
From what I understand though, each admin (for example kbin.social) is maintaining a fork of their project so they could implement automod on their own local content, but that wouldn't stop propagated content (e.g from Lemmy) coming in that's spam.
Seems like the issue might need to be fixed on a site by site basis.
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
Yeah I think that was what OP was talking about. Subscribing to all these feeds and then going to a single URL (/technology) that acts like an group, getting all of the posts that are grouped by the various magazines they've subscribed to.
From a user stand point right now you have your home page feed (with everything in it) or you can go to your subscription page and select a subscription to see all the posts, having about view where you can see all your related content sounds super handy.
I really don't understand the hate this show got. I really enjoyed it! A unique concept, story driven - season long plot arcs, great acting, incredible visuals, and fantastic characters. Sure there was some goofy stuff in there too, but star trek always has goofy shit....
Discovery I feel had some good storylines, but it had some of the most boring, forced, slow, touchy-feely character development I've seen.
I remember there were plenty of people who complained about it's "wokeness" because of how they zeroed in on the LGBT relationships and it really felt like the focus on the show was about relationships, not about the overarching journey.
When you're watching Voyager, it's all about the journey and getting home, there's relationships there, but they don't take minutes at a time on screen, it's mixed into the story in small bursts.
I'm still keen to see how they wrap it up after the DMA storyline, maybe piecing the federation back together?
I've been looking for the GitHub page for kbin.social but I'm still new with the fediverse, is this the correct place? https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin...
Like many of you, I woke up this morning to discover that our instance, along with lemmy.world, had been unexpectedly added to the beehaw block list. Although this development initially caught me off guard, the administrators at beehaw made an announcement shedding light on their decision....
Hopefully this is on the agenda and will get worked out in the future. Being able to seamlessly migrate to other federated sites feels like something that should be a priority, letting you easily move across to other instances if they align more with your beliefs and the content / rules they allow.
how surprised should i be that lemmy.ml mods banned !ukraine@lemmy.ml?
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e7c3f33b-d494-4e5a-b403-81b209094a13.png...
The Steam subreddit has been forced back open.
Looks like Reddit is forcing another sub open, but there are users advocating changing the sub to be about actual steam.
Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
Like many, when the recent defederation went down, I decided to create a couple other logins and see what the wider fediverse has had to say about it....
I miss Reddit's size
I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.
Is it illegal/poor taste to port content from Reddit over to Lemmy?
Edit: It seems like there's enough people that would prefer this didn't happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I'm not going to move forward with this idea....
Style updates for the mobile view. What do we think about these changes to improve the design on kbin.social?
Hey guys...
Did the reddit hivemind do a 180 or are the people left behind just the people who don't care.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
should we be discussing reddit less?
Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn't exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
/r/pics is voting on whether to make the sub solely for sexy pics of John Oliver (www.reddit.com)
now you can tell Reddit to get fucked, democratically
Why does Kbin show posts from Lemmy instances with a source of kbin.social? The post in this image is from reddit@lemmy.ml, but it says kbin.social in the parentheses.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else read this? The arrogance is palpable.
Does lemmy.world really have 26000 users already? (lemmy.world)
Almost! At the time of this post, lemmy.world has a whopping 25733 users and is growing fast....
I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming fifth season will be its final voyage (www.theverge.com)
I really don't understand the hate this show got. I really enjoyed it! A unique concept, story driven - season long plot arcs, great acting, incredible visuals, and fantastic characters. Sure there was some goofy stuff in there too, but star trek always has goofy shit....
Does anyone have a link to the kbin.social GitHub page?
I've been looking for the GitHub page for kbin.social but I'm still new with the fediverse, is this the correct place? https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin...
Beehaw defederating update - sh.itjust.works
Like many of you, I woke up this morning to discover that our instance, along with lemmy.world, had been unexpectedly added to the beehaw block list. Although this development initially caught me off guard, the administrators at beehaw made an announcement shedding light on their decision....