Lemmy growth is crazy!
Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We’ve had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we’re not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.
lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn’t even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don’t even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.
And that’s before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part
I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that…
@ada did you have to do anything special to make this cross-post work – like are you following the lemmy community from this account or something like that? or can anybody just tag the community and it posts there?
@jdp23 So, with Lemmy specifically (I’m not sure about kbin yet, as I haven’t tested it), you just tag the community, and it posts directly to the community.
The only real consideration is that lemmy expects a subject line, so if you’re posting from software that doesn’t use a subject line, it will use the first sentence of your post as the subject instead. Which is why my post began with a snappy single line sentence :)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Kbin is similar but it will create a microblog post instead of a thread.
@[email protected] @[email protected] One small note: kbin doesn’t support authorized fetch yet so if your instance requires that, it won’t process it. I just a did few quick tests between Calckey and kbin from an account that was following a magazine and also with a magazine that it wasn’t following. It created microblog posts as long as I had disabled Secure Fetch in Calckey.