I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
Reddit was something unique and personal to each user. Some it was new, some it was the only place to find specific tech or other advice that wasn't corrupted by ads and algorithms on goggle and other big corporations.
Reddit was my way of disengaging from world news before I knew about anxiety, and how things could affect me and become personal even though I had no way to help world events. So I used it to personalize my mental diet, if I was creative I could sub to many craft subs like leather or metal etc, it's where I went to get other perspectives on movies and content that I didn't fully understand.
End of the day, is all that possible still on Reddit, kinda, but it's going away, and they pushed me personally to leave as I could see it was becoming google/Facebook, ad algorithms to push what people pay for or get paid for. So time to reset.
Become involved, I'm way more involved and adding to discussions on the new sites I'm on. Everyone adding comments and posts and perspectives and opinions are building this up from bottom up.
You are the future, make your perspective part of the future by helping guide these new sites to something we can be proud of.
When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a...
Anyone well known who wants to speak out about what's been happening on reddit? Louis Rossmann? Apollo dev? John Oliver (one can dream)... or maybe former Reddit mods who were kicked out?...
I saw right when I was going to post this that someone else had already posted something similar, but I thought I'll go ahead and post it anyway as an alternative....
The best analogy here is always email, because everyone is familiar with it and it's the original federated technology.
No one company owns email. There isn't an email.com that you sign up to for email and controls the whole thing. Instead, email is a specification of communication between servers.
This allows multiple organisations to set up email servers that talk to each other. We can pick the email server that's best for us and we'll be able to talk to anyone on any other. You can see this because we can't just have the email address "lotanis" it has to be "lotanis@emailprovider.com" so that we know what server the user lives on. Note also they're not running the same software - quite a few of them will run Microsoft's email server, but Google will run their own and other people will be using open source software.
Defederation in the email world is one server choosing not accept email from certain other servers, e.g. because they don't vet their users and produce a lot of spam.
All of this works the same in the fediverse, but the underlying protocol is called ActivityPub. You have multiple Lemmy instances and it doesn't matter which one a community is on you can still follow and comment. You don't even need to run the same software, Lemmy can talk to Kbin etc.
Defederation has happened in the recent Beehaw case because there are a couple of large Lemmy instances that let in users and Beehaw doesn't have the moderation tools they need to create the community they want so they've just disconnected from those large instances.
Looking forward to sharing our thoughts and Boosts and all that jazz. Let me know what you'd want to see out of this community! Weekly pinned posts/discussions/etc.?
First screenshot of Sync for Lemmy (lemmy.world)
@ljdawson shared on Discord
Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
Why is no one decorating their magazines?
Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine's visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me....
What are 2000 employees doing at Reddit?
When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a...
Can we organize AMAs to help Lemmy/Kbin grow?
Anyone well known who wants to speak out about what's been happening on reddit? Louis Rossmann? Apollo dev? John Oliver (one can dream)... or maybe former Reddit mods who were kicked out?...
OC Kbin Subscriptions Panel 2.9 (greasyfork.org)
I saw right when I was going to post this that someone else had already posted something similar, but I thought I'll go ahead and post it anyway as an alternative....
Howdy y'all—welcome to the new Arc Browser magazine on kbin and the fediverse!
Looking forward to sharing our thoughts and Boosts and all that jazz. Let me know what you'd want to see out of this community! Weekly pinned posts/discussions/etc.?