I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.
That’s cool. Do you like kbin.
After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.
I went to see Motörhead at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg around 1986 and there he was, center stage.
Oh. I learned about lemmy a while back after searching something like “fediverse like reddit”. I didn’t join until this year. I didn’t know about the API wars until afterward.
I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
The RedditAlternatives sub is about 10 years old. Fediverse sub 5 years. The Lemmy sub is newish, only 1 year.
Found out about Lemmy a while ago the through an app that existed for it (Lemmur) due to weird search of Fdroid, when the shit hit the fan I just followed the crowd.
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I still don’t understand if I’m on Kbin or Lemmy. I have a Kbin login so this is Kbin right? But I can view subs/magazines/federations on lemmy? But not all of the content? And I can comment/interact with those Lemmyubs/magazines/federations if i’m on Kbin, but not with the same account if I go to Lemmy? WTF is going on.
I had a similar question, which I asked here.
Someone answered that Kbin, Lemmy, and Mastodon all “speak” the same protocol called ActivityPub.
The way it should work is everything can interact with everything unless its defederated.
Same. I think I only have the kbin and am not sure if I have the lemmy. I keep seeing posts like this talking about it so I must be. Fuck am I old?
Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn’t a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.
chapotraphouse?
Yeah, those were the days. Hexbear carries some of the culture, but is generally a nicer place to be.
From a comment on Reddit.
I honestly don’t recall, even though it was just a week or two ago. It was one of the Reddit alternatives that people were talking about, and I liked the federated aspect - it reminds me of the Usenet of old, which was my first online social experience. I tried signing up to one of the handful of non-lemmy.ml servers that were being recommended at the time to balance the load, but only lemmy.ml was actually online when I made the attempt so I signed up there.
Then I started noticing the odd popularity of Russia and China in the news communities, and around that time I heard about kbin. Again, even though I’d have loved to load-balance, kbin.social was the only one available at the time so I signed up there.
As soon as account transfer gets implemented I’ll start looking to move to another instance and finally do my part to distribute things a bit more.
I discovered it on reddit
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn’t do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I’d give it a try.
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
I’ll chime in and add Reddit. Once I saw the direction things were going in, I went ahead and created accounts on tildes, lemmy, and kbin (which was the order I learned of them in). Right now, I think I’m most fond of kbin, but I wanted to keep my options open.
On the blackout day of Reddit I hop here, I’m still here an will be for a long time.
