I know it's early...but this seems a better start than Mastodon! Hope it sticks! Even if we get a fourth of reddit's numbers I think we can have a great community!
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Over 55 million active daily users on Reddit, a fourth would be cool but I’d be happy with a fifty-fifth too.
Haha I didn't know how much reddit does. But even a fraction would be a good place, no oversaturation.
Definitely agree, there’s probably a line we need to cross where fedi becomes self sustaining, without being driven by Reddit’s drama.
What was the Reddit userbase increase at the time of the Digg exodus? Or the Slashdot exodus? I'd be happy with those numbers. The ball should roll from there, especially as people get their grips with the concept of federation.
This is nothing. July's going to be insane.
I don't think we've seen any evidence of this yet but I think we should be skeptical of sudden spikes. Could be bots.
Not to mention a couple hours ago someone publicly disclosed a bug that could create thousands of new accounts quickly.
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This is exciting. I don't need millions of people, just enough to not be a ghost town.
I feel like we may well be over that particular hump now.
Now excuse me while I go give Ernest some more coffee. I somehow doubt he was expecting to become the founding father of a whole new social media ecosystem all at once like this. :)
Sweet !!!
I'm new to this what's the difference between kbin/Lemmy/mastadon
Mastodon is primarily a microblogging social media platform akin to Twitter. The other two are primarily multi-forum board akin to Reddit.
All three rely on the ActivityPub protocol, so there is some intercommunication between them (esp. between Lemmy and Kbin). That's why they're often referenced in the same breath. That, and most websites operating under these standards are not run for commercial profit.
Not a ton, they're both link aggregators, and the servers can all talk to each other (except for some that defederate, I think beehaw has defederated)
my advice is to find a community you like and want to stick around in and make sure you can post and read there, and don't worry about the rest
Mastodon is like Twitter, Lemmy is similar to reddit, and Kbin combines both functionalities with different terminology. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in !
Simplified answer: They’re like email servers, and posts are like really advanced emails. You’ll see the same content on all 3 of these since all the content is automatically emailed between them (you don’t need an account on every instance like you don’t need multiple email accounts).
Where things get different is how the content is displayed to you.
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Mastodon: Like Twitter. You can follow people, or #hashtags.
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Lemmy: Like Reddit. Subreddits on Lemmy are "communities". Different instances have different communities.
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Kbin: Both Lemmy and Mastodon combined. Subreddits on Kbin are called "magazines". Posts can be made to magazines directly, plus Mastodon posts with #hashtags will be automatically cross-posted to the appropriate community.
All of them are part of the "fediverse". Because of this, they can all talk to each other. You can follow Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines from Mastodon. Kbin allows you to follow Mastodon users from Kbin.
All that changes is how the content is displayed. Lemmy displays it like Reddit. Mastodon displays it like Twitter. Kbin has different tabs that let you switch between both.
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nice to be part of this, the fediverse is awesome. i joined kbin (readit.buzz) yesterday
off-topic but OP is your username related to The Good Place?
So exciting! I’m planning on starting up my own instance for my family to use, so that way other people who don’t have the overhead or knowledge to self host can have my bandwidth 😁
As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
If legit then this is fantastic!
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P.S. This is another tracking account, this time for Mastodon accounts:
@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social
These are Mastodon's latest stats:
12,632,888 accounts
+2,654 in the last hour
+60,821 in the last day
+372,962 in the last week
They also are having a lot of recent growth.
I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was norhing stopping automated account creation or something (I'm not tech savvy enough to knoww exact6what he meant) aand as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I'm hoping this isn't just a flood of bots.
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Who let the bots in
I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.
We'll see.
Woah. Who mentioned Lemmy kbin on Reddit
Oh heck yea my dudes
Hoping its not troll/bot accounts but this is good.
@Very_Bad_Janet jeez that's insane what happened
Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned (recommended?) On r/ModCoord. Other people on this thread are suspecting delayed reporting or bots, possibly. We don't know. Maybe @ernest has an idea.
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woah
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