With our growth numbers and with kbin finally with Lemmy again, things around the link aggregator fediverse feel more active than ever. Today when browsing all on Jerboa I saw so many more communities, posts, and comments than even yesterday. It’s starting to feel like we have some real traction going on here. Let me know if you agree or disagree.
Edit: fixed swypos
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I really love that since kbin and lemmy federate with each other, there’s really no real drama about the budding rivalry because whichever one you choose you won’t have to miss out on content from the other! Plus having two separate platforms only increases the diversity and resilience of the fedi-aggregator universe. It makes it harder to kill/write off and its also the end goal of why we’re all here in the first place! 😊
Please don’t take this the wrong way, just a friendly tip:
with kbin finally with Lemmy again
If you are talking about instances, use the entire name. Try to avoid mixing your references between software and instances, otherwise it will be confusing and can cause misunderstandings. _
Kbin has always been “with” Lemmy.
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Kbin: https://fedia.io
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Kbin: https://readit.buzz
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Kbin: https://karab.in (oldest Kbin)
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Kbin: https://u.fail
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Kbin: https://fediverse.boo
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Kbin: https://kilioa.org (SOLO instance)
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Kbin: https://forum.fail
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Lemmy: https://sopuli.xyz
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Lemmy: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Lemmy: https://lemmy.world
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Lemmy: https://lemmy.ml
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Lemmy: https://beehaw.org
The one which was being hammered by registrations and bots was/is https://kbin.social and it is just one of many.
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I’m really surprised how easy it was for me to stop going to reddit. I had several daily hours on there with the sync app. I guess I just like a sense of community and honest people trying to provide information or discussion about their favorite hobbies/interests, and I found it here as well.
Some of my favorite communities are in the instances that Beehaw defederated from. However the instance I use chooses to federate with everyone so I can see everything from everywhere.
I decided to self-host my own instance for that reason. That way I’m actually totally in control of what I’m seeing. It does make finding new communities less organic, but it’s easy enough with the new listing tools. Probably not worth the money if all I ran on my server was Lemmy, but as an added service it’s great.
I do have a homelab and could easily self-host a personal Lemmy instance if I wanted. But I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort.
The ansible install on ubuntu wasn’t too bad, tbh. I haven’t touched anything backend since I installed, and it’s been chugging!
Yeah but if you have existing services I definitely wouldn’t use the ansible install
I agree, but I really wish Beehaw had not defederated with the other two most popular instances. I understand why they did, but man fracturing this early sucks
The main mastodon instance got defederated by many other instances in the early days, but when they added more mod tools they were welcomed back in and they’re going strong to this day. Here’s hoping
My understanding is that this is the plan - the only reason for defederation is because that is the only tool available at this time, and the admins for Beehaw find it most important to continue pursuing their goal to form a community rather than replacing Reddit or growing for the sake of growth.
Agreed. I have an account on lemmy.world, but I enjoy the community and interaction with the posts on beehaw. One user made a post saying that the defederation hurt Beehaw more than the other instances, but Beehaw has a lot of strong, active communities that the other instances don’t have.
i created a lemmy community about backpacking 3 years ago, at the birth of lemmy : only 3 users! Since one week, there are much more post and comments. Thank you reddit ! i love you.
Wait wait wait I really like backpacking. Can you post the url of your community?
!backpacking@lemmy.ml you’re welcome and hope you will appreciate the mascot
RIGHT. Yeah, with all the BS and the blackout on Reddit right now, I decided it was the time to check out lemmy and kbin. Liking jerboa so far! Haven’t really figured out the difference besides how the “subs” are laid out yet though. But, onward and upward.
It is amazing to see it grow right before my eyes. Every day there is more communities, and every day I see bigger upvote counts on posts.
It is clear that even if majority of Reddit users stay there, Lemmy is not going anywhere. I’m honestly hoping that we’re going to hit a critical mass that will allow us to steadily grow even after things settle with Reddit. Maybe we already did :)Safe to say, I’m not going back.
I agree! Glad to see so much activity. I feel like there’s still a lot of preference for FOSS/Reddit/Fediverse topics as that’s obviously what brings a lot of people together here, so I think it will be a big milestone to see if some other non-tech communities take hold. Or maybe they won’t and that’s fine too! Just have to wait and see, and contribute where we can.
