Odd 503 error here and there due to cloudflare, otherwise smooth like butter!
Yesterday I was receiving a 503 error a few times. I've run into it once today when trying to upvote a post. At the very least kbin seems to be handling traffic pretty well.
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
Nothing as spiteful as a Redditor done wrong
Hell has no wrath like a Redditor scorned.
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.
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Yes! 😋
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. :)
Oddly enough, they initially mentioned kbin.social directly, but we're not on the list anymore.
We've been replaced by https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list , however, we're not listed there, either.
Well, like lemmy, it's recommended that we don't all flood to one instance and overwhelm them. It seems most people have gotten the message re: lemmy but most are still just signing up at kbin.social
That's understandable. I was just confused that the site that appears to list kbin instances is missing this one.
However, we appear to be showing up now in that site list, so all is well.
Wow, finally people are flooding in, just hope these instances can handle it. Did some youtuber mention us or something?
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.
I suspect that will be the next wave too. Then whenever reddit gets closer and closer to going public I have a feeling they have more steps in place they will start to change/shut down more subs that don't 'align' with a clean image they want advertisers and shareholders to see. The place will become more and more dry as everything becomes about pleasing those who pay them rather than the community.
I could be wrong but with how they ignored and responded to the recent protest (whether people agree with the protest or not) they clearly are hell bent on their way or the highway.
This is nothing. July's going to be insane.
What was the Reddit userbase increase at the time of the Digg exodus? Or the Slashdot exodus? I'd be happy with those numbers. The ball should roll from there, especially as people get their grips with the concept of federation.
I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.
We'll see.
I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was nothing stopping automated account creation or something (I'm not tech savvy enough to know exact6what he meant) and as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I'm hoping this isn't just a flood of bots.
As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
If legit then this is fantastic!
I had to create like four accounts today before I finally got a confirmation email.
Wait did I miss something? Why the sudden influx?
I was waiting to gauge Reddit's response to the blackout. Now it seems clear the protest is waning without a rollback of the API changes, so I looked for an alternative.
I'm trying to figure out as well. Its been so vague because reddit keeps surpressing information that gets shut down by reddit itself.
The moderators organizing the protest had been trying to organize their own thing for a while to port their communities over.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that the "own thing" was untenable; too many differences to reconcile. Different mod teams had given up on the process and have already started to make places on Lemmy/Kbin.
Remaining closed is seemingly impossible; if you remain closed, Reddit will replace you within 24 hours). That's not a bluff; Reddit has done it (and is creating more and more powermods in the process as these big subreddits get centralized into the hands of giant powermods that cooperate with the admins).
With that in mind, they've decided the best way to damage Reddit is from within Reddit itself. Over the last couple days they've been putting together guidance on how to stay within the letter of Reddit's rules while maintaining the protest. Among that guidance is tips to make Reddit as miserable as possible while heavily promoting alternative communities. Everything is officially following Reddit's rules to the letter, so if the admins punish these communities they're proving those rules to be a farce.
A lot of places are now making the jump to alternate communities. Some are on the fediverse (here's a list), some aren't. But now it's "official" guidance from the protest leaders, so expect to see a lot more advertising for Lemmy/Kbin from subreddits that participated in the protest.
P.S. This is another tracking account, this time for Mastodon accounts:
@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social
These are Mastodon's latest stats:
12,632,888 accounts
+2,654 in the last hour
+60,821 in the last day
+372,962 in the last week
They also are having a lot of recent growth.
Way too sudden. Someone just either made a bunch of fake accounts or that graph found a big instance it wasn't counting before - hexbear possibly?
Organic growth would not be so sharp, you'd expect to see it continue for more than an hour and slowly taper down
"delayed reporting"
growth is still great though, proud of this community
I'm new to this what's the difference between kbin/Lemmy/mastadon
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: 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.
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 !
Not a ton, they're both link aggregators, and the servers can all talk to each other (except for some that defederate, I think beehaw has defederated)
my advice is to find a community you like and want to stick around in and make sure you can post and read there, and don't worry about the rest
Simplified answer: They’re like email servers, and posts are like really advanced emails. You’ll see the same content on all 3 of these since all the content is automatically emailed between them (you don’t need an account on every instance like you don’t need multiple email accounts).
Where things get different is how the content is displayed to you.
This is madness!
Sweet !!!
Hoping its not troll/bot accounts but this is good.
Woah. Who mentioned Lemmy kbin on Reddit
Can you figure out which accounts arecreal people and which are bots?
@Very_Bad_Janet jeez that's insane what happened
Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned (recommended?) On r/ModCoord. Other people on this thread are suspecting delayed reporting or bots, possibly. We don't know. Maybe @ernest has an idea.
thanks for using Leebra!
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That's incredibly impressive! I haven't noticed a single hitch and I've been browsing nonstop for the past hour or so.
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