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Nothing wrong with that imo. If you don't like it, just use another instance.
This system means people can foster their instances to be however they want, and that's great!
Also, fyi, if you're on lemmy.world, leave any beehaw comms you've joined and join alternate comms in other instances. The beehaw comms are going to be very empty on your end soon.
I also predict that their comms will die out in a few weeks, unless they federate again.
Still, interesting challenge to the whole federation concept, if it’s even possible for you to shape/customize a community of people, if you have to let anyone in from anywhere.
When I was registering to lemmy, BH was already big, I read their rules/concept and was thinking how would that even work (e.g. no downvotes) with federation.
Let’s see where it goes, but I would be happier if we all stay federated and build a big userbase, rather than fragmenting into small silos, and having 5 different versions of a topic-based community with a few K users each.
Is there an easy way to shift an account between instances? Or do you need to start from scratch with a new account on each instance?
Not any that I know of. Doesn't matter much though; there's no karma system here to worry about, and you only really need one account on an instance that isn't controversial (like lemmy.world and lemm.ee, and really, most instances)
You can check if an instance is blocking any others by clicking 'instances' at the bottom of the page.
This beehaw thing is very rare. Just stay away from the instance and its comms for now until lemmy's improved further to support this massive wave of users.
Is kbin a good place to set up shop? I don't really understand the advantages/disadvantages of different instances. I made an account on lemmy.world first, but I remade my account on kbin a few hours later because I like the kbin interface a little more.
Also, if there's no karma, what are the "reputation points" in my profile?
I prefer Kbin over Lemmy because it feels like old reddit, and the magazines are a lot more like checking my subreddits than others. It's also not currently defederated with anything, but it's worth noting that could change at any point. Kbin is the fastest growing of any of the instances atm,
At the end of the day, the whole fediverse thing means, within reason, it doesn't really matter where you set up shop.
I'm also curious which will see more development. Kbin has a lower bar to entry because it's PHP but I imagine there are others that have no interest in touching PHP unless I'm being paid for it. I'd have to learn Rust to help with Lemmy but I have heard really good things about it so I'm considering it.
Do magazines differ from lemmy communities? I have a Kbin account and I'd say they're the same. kbin.social/m/gaming is the same thing as lemmy.world/c/gaming.
So the difference for me would only be the UI, which looks more like reddit than lemmy does right now but that can also change in the future.
What kinda bugs me about Kbin atm are 3 things:
You can't collapse comments (really hard for mobile usage)
You have no infinite scrolling
It's less easy to spot in the feed if a magazine is from a lemmy instance or from kbin(not that it matters really but it's still nice to know)
The general look of the feed is better though with every thread having its own box. I'd also want a bit more separation of different threads on Lemmy aside from those thin and barely visible lines
Sure! If you like that more. You can still join lemmy comms through it after all (and vice-versa!) Personally, I prefer lemmy because it's closer to what reddit is/was
Only a kbin thing afaik, doesn't affect your profile on lemmy.