Nice, that’s a pretty favorable article. I actually learned a few things from it, mostly about kbin. He really gets into a bunch of the features that Lemmy and Kbin have that reddit does not.
The only correction I would make is that Kbin does let you follow communities from other instances (even Lemmy instances).
Until a couple weeks ago, it would show local magazines first… but if you dug deep enough, after all the local magazines were listed it would start listing remote communities across Lemmy/Kbin.
It’s changed very recently to always sort everything by subscriber count, with an option to toggle between local magazines and everything on the threadiverse.
As far as “I tried to go to posts I knew existed but weren’t showing up” - like everywhere else on the fediverse, someone needs to follow that content first. So the reason why they saw their Mastodon content is because someone followed their Mastodon account from Kbin. When they searched for things that didn’t appear, it’s because nobody on Kbin was following those accounts.
If they searched the full
@username@instance.socialand hit “follow”, then future posts would appear in the microblog tag and be searchable.True, good catch
Alternatives that dont even take off, sadly.
There was a spike, but the curve has flattened and now might be bleeding.
That’s how growth works on social media, it comes in waves. We are basically in the first wave, because there were only a few thousand people here before June. Its going to take a while before we build up enough organic momentum to cause a second wave, unless reddit makes another oopsie; they could trigger another wave at any moment.
The curve is fine, what you’re seeing is the bleeding of alternate accounts. Many of us made 2 or more accounts on different instances early on, and many of those initial alts are now becoming inactive as people settle on their preferred servers. The rate of active user growth is slower than the rate of attrition right now, but that’s only because the rate of attrition is so high. That should stabilize in the coming weeks.
Look at threads, their activity declined like 70% after a week or two. Lemmy is actually retaining users at a much higher percentage than the average social media site, it’s just that we haven’t gotten enough people to give it a try yet.
Anything is better than Reddit, IMO. Place is impossible to deal with and the bans are handed out arbitrarily…. But only if you don’t tow the decidedly left-leaning line. Users there are also more likely to be sissies as in running to the mods if you dare question them or cause them to need their crayons and safe space. You get the idea. I’m hoping this place is a little more balanced .
ah, so you were getting banned on reddit. doubtless, your inherent charm was to blame.
LOL. Banned on reddit is a badge of honor. It means you tweaked the underpants of the purple-haired admins by NOT shlepping up the left wing diatribe. :)
