What frustrates me is that it makes total sense for people who want their own corner of the fediverse to defederate liberally and keep their community small. Not every instance is trying to be Reddit; some are basically a special-interests messageboard.
But the fedipact is not a group of people building their own more private network, it’s just culture war and bullying. Instead of being a positive, it’s all negative.
I recently found pickled radishes at a farmer’s market. So good!
I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They’re all “kitchen sink” instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.
Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.
Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it’s an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don’t need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.
My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that’s what’s going to end up happening.
Comment whenever you want, but based on Reddit I wouldn’t expect a reply after a thread is more than ~2 days old. That may end up being different here.
For sure – I just don’t want kbin to get forgotten about, because it’s got the exact same issues that got Lemmy.world delisted: a quickly growing userbase with open signup and limited moderation tools.
kbin.social is really new, so it doesn’t surprise me that active ≈ total.
I see that in both the original post and now this update that the focus has been on improving tooling for Lemmy specifically. I’m worried that kbin isn’t having the same focus on moderation tools. Anyone have some insight into kbin’s roadmap?
My understanding is that here on kbin, a magazine can set a list of tags and toots using that tag will show up in their microblog feed.
Which is a bit different, but cool
Don’t worry too much about it. There’s still going to be people using Reddit. You’re never going to convince everybody about everything. My parents still use Facebook.
Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we’re staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine’s side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we’re going to side with Ukraine.
Russia’s only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it
There’s a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.
I think it’s totally fine for instances that want to be small and community-focused to not be federated with the greater pool of the internet. Especially when, as they’ve said, the moderation manpower and tooling isn’t there to handle the extra users.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to join a place like that (I’ve never been a fan of message boards or other niche communities), but it’s their place and their rules.
Each Lemmy instance (or kbin 👋) is like its own Reddit, all connected together. So you’re seeing ‘subreddits’ from multiple instances right now.
30mil users already, as per Zuck himself on Threads.
https://www.threads.net/t/CuXCjGVrd6R/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==