Between Twitter and Reddit imploding, and Meta soon launching their fediverse-compatible Project 92/Barcelona/Threads, there's a great need to make https://jointhefediverse.net available in more languages.
Would you join me and the rest of the volunteers and help out?
@jwhevans silly question maybe: i have already registered on kbin.social. are there any pros/cons to consider with joining this other server instead? probably should get that all sorted out before i get too settled in…
Facinating to watch a potential #RedditMigration to the fediverse. The #Lemmy and #Kbin teams are dealing with all the same issues that Mastodon and other fedi microbloging sites did - but in even a faster timeframe as much of Reddit appears to be set to go dark on Monday. Questions of how to onboard, questions of centralized vs distributed onboarding, questions of how to explain servers and federation, and deep questions of how to scale if traffic is anyting like it could be Monday...
As a (former) Reddit user, I just joined #Kbin to watch and help support the potential #RedditMigration coming from that platform. Here is me there: @tchambers
And I just supported @ernest the creator of the platform, and so should you: suspect next week he will need all the support the Fedi can give.
Has any joined a Lemmy instance recently? I looked through a few, tried to join and just couldn't get the sign up page to work on any of them. Fill out the form, click submit and the form goes nowhere.
If you still want to join Lemmy (join-lemmy.org) (seems as welcoming as Mastodon has been!), avoid lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as they are official servers ran by the developers. Lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone seem pretty good!
Alternatively, you could also join Kbin, (kbin.pub) as it can still interact with Lemmy based communities! (Although they call communities magazines and follow the !name format instead of @name)
The growth of our lemmy instance, without any advertising or spruiking. It was spun up as a test more than anything else, but it seems that it has become more than that!
Even though the graph shows the growth spike from April to June, in reality it's even more stark than that. We have gone from 20 users to 100 users in a week!
We'll be spinning up a kbin instance soon too, and when we do, we might shut down registration on the lemmy instance. We'll keep them up for now though, given the load on lemmy.ml from reddit migrations