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Looks like KBin has an edge over Lemmy now in terms of monthly active users.

It's obviously a pretty silly thing, and is not in any way indicative of which project is "better" or more "long-term viable" or anything — instances of both federate with one another, and with the rest of fedi, so it's all one happy family.

That said, it's notable. KBin is a relative newcomer to the "Reddit-like fedi instance" game, and also does not have the tankie baggage.

Anyway, the more, the merrier!

KBin: https://the-federation.info/platform/184

Lemmy: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Discussion on fedi: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110527049024028986

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That mstdn.social and the whole "lemmy = tankie" (whatever the fuck that means) is doing a disservice to the whole unreddit movement. I have seen plenty of discussion on reddit now of people not leaving because of these posts..

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did not say "lemmy = tankie", I said Lemmy has certain tankie baggage, and that is in fact true. The developers are pretty clearly tankies, they also run a strictly tankie instance (Lemmygrad; many Lemmy instances do not federate with it).

Pretending this is not the case is not going to help in the long run. It might slow down the "unreddit" movement now, but I'd wager a bet it will make it more long-term viable and resilient, if people understand that choice of instance is important (there are quite a few great Lemmy instances that I would recommend wholeheartidly, like BeeHaw), and that there are alternative, independent implementations on Threadiverse (like Kbin).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you provide a source to your claim that lemmygrad is ran by Nutomic or Dessalines?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What I don't get is, I don't see how that's a reason to be concerned about Lemmy when the whole point is that there's no central control over instances, which literally anyone can spin up, and instances can communicate / ban each other as they please. It's impossible for the politics of the creators to have any real effect on the software, by design. I feel like people aren't grasping how this all works. If you're concerned about their politics, just don't use instances that align with those politics, even spin up your own if you're really worried about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do indeed use a Lemmy instance that is not aligned with tankie politics. That being said, I am also acutely aware that technology is political and developers of a given piece of software make decisions based on their personal politics, sometimes even without knowing it. So it is important, I feel, to be aware of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically speaking, you are completely right. The problem is that the negative association rubs off on the project regardless of the factual context. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether the political views of the developers influence the political direction of the software. The association that sticks is: Lemmy is the one with the Stalinist developer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly.

It's analogous to the way that Reddit knowingly allowing some subs to exist repelled some users.

Most were able to get past it and simply not subscribe to subs they found objectionable, but I'm sure many people just stayed away once they learned that certain subs existed and were very much known about by Reddit admins.

One key difference here is the way that your instance is able to enforce rules and to some extent influence and filter your user experience, and that's worth consideration too.

I'm also curious if and how an instance like lemmy.ml can, for example, delete comments, ban users, take down content in cases of cross-instance interaction. Could the admins of lemmy.ml, for example, ban a user from another instance from Lemmy completely? From their local communities? Could they remove that person's comments? Can they prevent their own users from seeing content they don't like on other instances? Can they moderate content from their users that is posted to communities on other instances?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s analogous to the way that Reddit knowingly allowing some subs to exist repelled some users.

Let's be absolutely clear about that:

For years (2008-2011), Reddit hosted forums for pedophiles to share "legal" pictures of young girls for other pedophiles' erotic entertainment; e.g. upskirt photos showing children's underwear.

For years, Reddit hosted forums for misogynistic men to encourage one another to perpetrate violence against women; for racists to promote and plan violence against black people; etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will choose to leave it. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I can understand where mstdn.social is coming from and it is an "uneasy" situation. But the fact is that you have a choice here in which with whom you communicate.

The irony though of Reddit discussing to stay on Reddit and actually comply with the Autocratic leadership it has.