Didn't think this would happen, but #Lemmy is now the 2nd most popular server software on the #Fediverse and is on the verge of cracking 400,000 accounts.
I'm actually shocked that it blew past #Misskey so quickly because the Misskey migration took three months to hit 300,000 accounts.
With all the drama happening elsewhere on the Fediverse, it important to remember that this is the biggest growth we've experienced in six months!
@pariscope Stick with kbin. It's more versatile because of its microblogging capabilities. And it definitely looks a shit ton better. And will eventually have a stronger developer community supporting it.
I'm currently trying to get my wordpress site running as a #fediverse instance using the ActivityPub plugin. If its working right, the profile should be: @sheawoodrow If anyone has a second, could you check to see if its working?
Hi the reason that I can no longer participate in the broader Left: leftists out here being "dev politics aside" when dev politics include some kind of National Bolshevism. Nazbol is fash, period. Would you use a Fedi software whose devs run a Nazi instance? I hope not. But the worst of the worst of tankies are "slightly different leftists"
I find it increasingly annoying, if not unbearable, how #Fediverse culture locks itself out of the larger Web culture of crawling and indexing everything unless some person or some server explicitly disallows. Being able to #search and find anything from huge amounts of published posts has become an essential, core part of how research, discussion, research publishing and more is being done on the web, since more than twenty years by now. It is essential for addressing the right persons. It helps greatly in finding ongoing debates, and to add to them. No, these essential tools for online discussion can not be replaced by hashtags. Show me the proper #hashtag for https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161231180449 - I hope you get my point here.
Today, as the Fediverse has brought us a decentralised infrastructure for distributing, storing and connecting online discussions, we have better means to fence out hate speech than before. The dispense of being able to search for things goes far over the top.
Quite the opposite: I fear that to keep going on like this will risk to loose what we have reached. #scholcomm
@lambo@luca I agree. Web articles and blogs are for evergreen content you want to share with the world. Social media is for thoughts on passing events or moments in your life.
Hey all! I’ve been a mastodon user for a while, but with the recent reddit nonsense I’ve been digging into forum-style Fediverse platforms like Lemmy and Kbin. I don’t know if i understand the distinction a ton yet. I’ve make a Lemmy.world account and this Kbin one, but I’m not sure if i need to? I would love to just have one account and follow the threads/subs from both. Is that possible?
I’ve made a clone of a reddit sub i loved to frequent, /crtgaming over on Lemmy.world: lemmy.world/c/crtgaming. But then I found https://kbin.social/m/CRTs (which i guess are called “magazines” here). And I’m not confident both need to exist? Or maybe the do and we can be sister subs? Idk. any advice would be much appreciated!
@ottaross kbin is still in beta stage, and some of the federation capabilities are turned off at the moment to help handle the surge in new traffic while @ernest is adding servers. In a week or so, it should be back to full steam ahead.
After playing around with both of them for a couple of days, I like the form factor and interface of kbin a lot more than Lemmy, but kbin (at least the instance I'm on) seems to have a lot of trouble keeping connected to the greater fediverse.
@DrakkenZero I think kbin has some federation functionality turned off temporarily so they can handle the traffic tsunami and DDOS attacks. They are adding more hardware and it should come back