New migrants please be patient. This is a lot like Nov 2022. It will be choppy, but get sorted out. This is another golden opportunity to break down corporate social media.
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There is every reason to suspect that other established Mastodon instances will jump into the breach to help with #RedditMigration .
We are going to see chaotic and exciting days ahead as the Fediverse once again adds capacity, new users build out content, and developers make rapid fire improvements to their applications. But this is what we do best.
Be patient. You are part of the existential shift from corporate domination to people powered social media.
An essay on why the #TwitterMigration failed, some things to learn for the next time it's a possibility, and some thoughts on things that the #RedditMigration has done differently, especially with #Kbin.
kbin.social is struggling under the load today, just like mastodon.social does every few months when musksite does some other stupid thing. Give it time, many former reddit communities are already establishing themselves in the new "threadiverse".
I managed to create an account, @ivanvector, but federation doesn't seem to be working all that well right now.
#Lemmy seems like it's being hugged to death for some weird reason. Hopefully some of the new servers can take some of the load off of the hockey-stick growth: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Is there a way to make a post without selecting a magazine? Not really sure what I'm doing lol. I tried adding these hashtags but that didn't seem to help... I'd think that obviously there wouldn't be a way to make "threads" separate from magazines. But microblog posts just seem to be the twitter/mastodon equivalent? so why can't I post those just to my account or whatever? What's the culture/proper way of doing things? Is it fine to put personal-style posts even with a selected magazine?
I do feel more than a little sympathy for @ernest.
In January he decided to try to build an ActivityPub based messageboard system.
A month ago he decided the code was stable enough that he could release the first alpha version, and stood up https://kbin.social to demonstrate it.
It attracted quite a few users per day and proved that it might just be an exciting new entry into the Fediverse.
And then Reddit's admins did their thing, and suddenly thousands, millions, tens of millions of users are looking for a new home. And although a few other brave souls have also created kbin instances in the last few days, there's simply not enough capacity to even begin to cope with all the demand.
Another informative thing about the Lemmy project if you haven't read or heard of it yet, about the Lemmy devs removing content critizising the chinese state because it's 'racist'.
#Fediverse server software is going to need to work harder at interoperability.
Lots of #Mastodon users are excited by the #RedditMigration, want to participate, but don’t know how because it’s hard for Mastodon users to know when they’re interacting with a Lemmy post.
And the client perspective is worse because most #ActivityPub enabled clients are exclusively for Mastodon—further hiding other federated services.
But now that #Lemmy and #kbin are attracting Redditors, maybe more developers will wake up and realize the Fediverse is bigger than Mastodon—and therefore make apps with interoperability in mind.
The mod of /r/FOSSdroid has set up a new #Kbin server (still a bit janky, still configuring it), and they are inviting members of the subreddit to join (or, you know, anyone who's interested).
My article on long-term perspectives of important information on the web gained additional momentum (and great reading rates) with the self-inflicted demise of #reddit:
So yes, I originally came here because of the bird site. And now I’m back because my favourite app #Apollo is being squelched.
To be fair, my time on Reddit was because #ApolloApp made it so fun and enjoyable to use, hiding the rougher sides of the site with ease, so when it goes I’ll not be using the site anymore.
"Some 7,000 #Reddit communities, totalling hundreds of millions of subscribers, are protesting against new #API pricing changes that could kill off third-party apps." #RedditMigration#Rexxit
Funny enough, last December, I predicted there would be another Big Social migration to the Fediverse. I even predicted it would happen in June.
I just didn’t think that Reddit, of all platforms, would be the one to cause the migration.
Big Social has a habit of creating shitty user experiences, and attempting to squeeze every bit of ARPU possible.
Until recently, if you didn’t like it, your only option was to kick rocks.
Reddit doesn’t give a damn. There have been plenty of Reddit alternatives in the past, and almost all of them have crashed and burned.
Except this time, when people join #Lemmy and #kbin, they are interacting with a network of 10 million Fediverse accounts – possibly more. No Reddit alternative has ever had 10 million accounts.
Understand this. Even if Lemmy and /kbin make up an insignificant chunk of the Fediverse right now, everyone who uses those services can talk to 10+ million Fediverse accounts.
Which means that this time Reddit detractors have serious options.
And believe me, more Big Social platforms will cause further migrations to the Fediverse. Each time this happens, that detraction will compound more and more.
Reddit probably doesn’t think this is a big deal. They probably think this is like the other times users expressed dissent.
But this time, these Redditors are discovering the Fediverse.
I know it's wishful thinking but I really hope all the media coverage of the protests will tank Reddits upcoming IPO.
Latest stats on two largest #Kbin Servers - if I'm reading this correctly.... UPDATED
So, assuming I'm reading this data on this page correctly:...
Thread on the two Lemmy developers at Lemmy.ml is removing content criticizing the chinese government for being 'orientalist', meaning racist (lemmy.world)
Link: https://lemmy.world/comment/43639...