Reddit Migration

Not to mention a couple hours ago someone publicly disclosed a bug that could create thousands of new accounts quickly.

Odd 503 error here and there due to cloudflare, otherwise smooth like butter!

The live page psuedo app is working well for me on grapheneOS with the vanadium browser, I do also get a random 503 error but it's already so much better than a couple days ago

Yes! 😋

Hexbear migrated to upstream Lemmy yesterday (they were running a home developed fork from an earlier version of Lemmy). I submitted the instance to fedidb earlier today (after a bunch of failed attempts because fedidb kept erroring out/timing out for some reason). Afaik, federation is not active (yet) on their instance.

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. :)

According to the post I linked to, in the comments someone mentions that Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned on a Reddit post. ETA: I recommend rfollowing that account.

the r/modcoord people finally admitted that there's no use sticking around and have finally started saying to leave reddit

Over 55 million active daily users on Reddit, a fourth would be cool but I’d be happy with a fifty-fifth too.

/r/ModCoord is officially recommending recreating communities elsewhere now. Likely related. Though others have said it's just delayed reporting. Maybe a bit of both.

the r/modcoord subreddit finally admitted that there's no use trying to stay on reddit and are now recommending people migrate, and this was the top place on the list

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.

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 !

• Mastodon: Like Twitter. You can follow people, or #hashtags.

• Lemmy: Like Reddit. Subreddits on Lemmy are "communities". Different instances have different communities.

• 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.