Huh, interesting. Kbin.social just required an email confirmation.
So they're manually approving each user at beehaw then? That explains why their communities seemed small. They're managing ongoing mod work by having a much higher initial workload. Neat!
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Cross-posting seems... different? in the context of the fediverse. There's a very high chance I'm subscribed to @interest@instanceA and @interest@instanceB.
Maybe cross-posting in the fediverse feels more like double-posting? It's one thing to post your pet photos to /r/aww, /r/dogs, and /r/eyebleach. What does it mean to post to @dogs, @dogs, and @dogs?
Yeah, I'm unpacking the beehaw news! I think that's different though, I'm more concerned about a community's content becoming inaccessible (closed, deleted, locked, etc). Beehaw's content is still there, even Lemmy users can still access beehaw content by just visiting.
Yeah if all your posts are on a single instance, then naturally when that instance closes that's going away lol. the nature of the fediverse is federation and decentralization so you should just post freely to various instances as you please.
I guess that's just the "trade off" here? It's a little bit spammier than I usually prefer, but if it's for the sake of enduring content I guess I'll take the deal lol. Everyone post to every instance always!
Reddit isn't going to die overnight. It will probably not die at all (at least not as a result of this latest stupidity).
I expect reddit will be like facebook in the long run. Facebook is still useful for specific things (marketplace, messenger), but otherwise it's just a bloated zombie hippo now. Still massive and still moving, but definitely bleeding out lol.
We'll have to wait and see how July goes, after all the third parties get killed. In the meantime, the fediverse needs to become as high quality as possible, 'cause a bunch of people are gonna be deciding between a increasingly poor experience (reddit), and a fairly steep learning curve for non-tech people (fediverse/instances/threads/posts/boosts/favourites/reduce/magazines/microblogs/communities).
Idk what the culture is over there but it was just a bit funny to see the entire thread I was replying to just removed. Like that doesn't happen here on kbin lmao. a bit of a culture clash there I guess....
So from a quick skim there, most of those are actually not kbin mods. I'm still wrapping my head around the fediverse lol, but that modlog is actually from everyone not just kbin and I guess that's on purpose!
Hi, I'm figuring this out too. Veterans, please feel free to correct me!
If you create a community on kbin, it does not prevent a community with the same name from being created on another site. We have a 'music' community here (kbin.social/m/music), but lemmy.world has a 'music' community too (lemmy.world/c/music).
(kbin calls them /m/agazines, lemmy calls 'em /c/ommunities, if you're wondering about the 'm' vs 'c' in the URLs lol.)
Yes! Because Fediverse magic, you can actually interact with the lemmy.world 'music' community without leaving kbin.social. Try it out from kbin.social/m/music@lemmy.world.
You may notice this @[object]@[place] pattern a fair bit.
For example, our own 'music' community is @music@kbin.social. The lemmy.world 'music' community is @music@lemmy.world. Your account is @Spider-Man@kbin.social. See if you can spot users or threads that are from other sites! They're probably already in front of you!
As a second experiment, see if you can visit the music community from beehaw.org, without leaving kbin.social. They have one too, but you don't need a beehaw.org account to participate there!
Reddit was great, but not because of third party apps, not because of quality moderators, not because of the development or corporate oversight ... Reddit was great because of the content. Everything else was how that content was handled to create a great user experience. If there's no content to handle, there's no Reddit....
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Hi!...
Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances
See Beehaw's Post to find out why
OC What happens when an instance or magazine/community closes?
So I've gone with kbin over lemmy for now, folks seem pretty friendly here....
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Now that federation is starting to work, the experience is a bit funny. Already had experiences with lemmy and beehaw threads just being purged lol
Idk what the culture is over there but it was just a bit funny to see the entire thread I was replying to just removed. Like that doesn't happen here on kbin lmao. a bit of a culture clash there I guess....
Remember that the button at the top of the sidebar expands the options to disable federation.
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Reddit was great, but not because of third party apps, not because of quality moderators, not because of the development or corporate oversight ... Reddit was great because of the content. Everything else was how that content was handled to create a great user experience. If there's no content to handle, there's no Reddit....