• frozengriever@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    Hope this also feeds the growth of Mastodon as well. We need good FOSS alternatives to these corporate controlled social networks.

  • RxBrad@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    Having recently given Lemmy (via the Jerboa app) & kbin (via just their web app – since that’s all there is) a test drive…

    Lemmy is okay, but the app is extremely glitchy right now, throwing constant “unable to convert to JSON” errors. (I’m copying this comment before I hit submit, because I’ve already lost one lengthy comment due to those errors) FOLLOW-UP EDIT: I was never able to submit this comment via Jerboa, so here I am posting my comment on the website.

    And Kbin is mostly just broken on phones.

    The interface is completely confusing and cryptic. As far as I can tell, once you navigate off the home page, there are no links back?

    And after several minutes of trying to subscribe to a “magazine”, I finally figured out that the button is rendered off-screen, and you have to scroll to the right to find it.

    • YellowGas@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      The Sync for Reddit dev just announced that Sync for Lemmy is going to be developed. Sync for Reddit is one of the very high quality 3rd party reddit apps that will be shutdown later this month. So you’ve got that to look forward to.

      • RxBrad@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yep… I’m a long time Sync for Reddit user. A good client can go a long way to making the fediverse good. I use Mastodon a lot more than Twitter now, thanks to Megalodon & more recently, Trunks.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Try migrating to a smaller instance if you’re on a big one. The fediverse is not meant to be all in one giant instance anyways.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s amazing how fast it’s growing. According to Lemmy Explorer, there are nearly 900 Instances, encompassing almost 13,000 communities. The forum software could stand some improvement, like having a way to group all your communities in one place, or figuring out whether an instance is federated. I really like the decentralized aspect of it. If a corporation tries to take over and ruin the largest instance (like what’s happening to Reddit), then folks can migrate over the the second-most popular instance(s) while the biggest one withers and dies.

    Also, Mastodon looks like a great replacement for Twitter.

  • Prometheus@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    Usualy being a very late adopter (buy stuff last, accept trends last, switch to norms late), I’m very happy I shutdown and deleted everything from my reddit account among the first, when spez bullcrap started, and went elsewhere, I joined squabbles, kbin and lemmy. But I’m here, I like the community, adoption and migration, and seeing the numbers tells me I’m not alone. Which is good.

  • mbryson@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 years ago

    Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.

    • liwott@nerdica.net
      0·
      2 years ago

      Makes me wonder just how many are active users

      MAU means “monthly active users”. As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

      • Valmond@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.

        I’m not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.

      • vamp07@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        I was able to figure out what my options were much more quickly. The UI of Kbin seems very sparse. If it offers similar functionality, it is not obvious. Also, I don’t like combining “magazines” with “microblog”. It seems like it wants to be all things to all people.

        • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
          0·
          2 years ago

          @vamp07 Yea, I agree, I think the combination done in kbin will be what some people want while others will prefer the relative focus and simplicity of lemmy.

          • vamp07@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m all for having choices. The thing about Kbin is that when I first land on the page I can’t even figure out how to limit what I see to only what I am subscribed to. Maybe I need to spend more time, but that level of filtering or choice seems well hidden.

  • codus@leby.dev
    1·
    2 years ago

    Why is KBin at the very bottom with almost 42k MAU? It seems like it should be second with those numbers.

  • iSharted@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 years ago

    Not sure if I should just make a post for this, but I will ask here.

    Is lemmy searchable? The main appeal of reddit for me was searchability. I see a lot of different instances with different domains names.Maybe there is a meta search or something? Adding reddit to the end of a search was very convenient.

    • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      @iSharted

      Interesting question!

      Lemmy has a search facility (a magnifying glass icon, generally in the top right, or perhaps behind a menu).

      And it’s not bad, though rough around the edges I’d say.

      It will only be specific to what your instance “can see”, which is all the activity in all the communities that all its users subscribe to.

      So, no “meta search”. But it’s an interesting idea given how it was part of Reddit’s value.

      No reason why one couldn’t be made on top of the network though

    • ernest@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      @AskThinkingTim A few days ago, kbin wasn’t on that list at all :) It’s a huge honor for me, and I’m glad people are enjoying being here. Currently, my main goal is to prepare the infrastructure and sort out the basics. The real fun will start when migratories between platforms are established. This is the fediverse, and a lot can change here ;)

      @fediverse @fediversenews @maegul

    • petrescatraian@libranet.de
      0·
      2 years ago

      @AskThinkingTim I don’t agree with the opinions of Lemmy devs, and I also find kbin more feature rich. But kbin is more in development than Lemmy (which has been for longer around) and started with more servers already. They basically managed decentralization better so far, and more servers started after the reddit migration.

      That’s not to say I am not subscribed to Kbin magazines, nor do I think that kbin has no chance. On the contrary. I just tried to explain the current situation 😁

      @maegul

  • Odo@startrek.website
    0·
    2 years ago

    Some small instances are seeing sudden increases in numbers of registered users (4k to 5k new users) but not an equivalent growth in activity, my guess is someone is creating accounts on instances without captcha enabled for account registration. Most of the top 10 fastest growing instances shown here fit that criteria.

    • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      @Odo Interesting. Lemmy is somewhat strict in its definition of “active user”. You must post to be “active”, so all lurkers aren’t counted.

      I’m not even sure commenting counts toward being “active”, though I’d guess it does.

      So user growth without growth in “active users”, especially on smaller servers, is plausible.