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Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

This is just sort of a stream of thought from somebody who has been glued to my screen tracking the drama from the past week or so., and also watched the digg exodus happen (although I never used digg, just watched it from reddit's perspective)

Been spending a lot of time browsing /r/redditalternatives and the different drama threads from the past week and seen a lot of back and forth about "Where are we moving to?". And I think a lot of the mentality is that things are going to unfold for reddit like they did for digg. But I think this is wrong for a number of reasons.

First off, the scale is much different. At it's peak, digg had 30 million monthly active users. Reddit has over 50 million daily active users. Social media happens at a different scale than it did back then. Twitter wasn't something world leaders used as a communication tool. Facebook was still in it's nascent, hip stage. Instagram, well that was still being developed.

So, that sort of exodus is never going to happen. Reddit and these other social media platforms are here to stay. I mean, Elon absolutely destroyed twitter's reputation in the publics eye and the site still tanked the hit.

I don't think that should even be the goal either. I'm not here out here hoping for reddit to shutdown. I haven't really cared about reddit as an entity since the early days. Over a decade of eternal september events (Anybody remember how big the Obama AMA was?), mishandling by the company, and just changing my internet browsing habits has left me uninterested in reddit as whole. Reddit to me is just a host to the other smaller communities inside.

And that is where I think the fedivserse, specifically this kbin/lemmy "threadiverse" portion of it, has something useful to offer. Instead of some big platform being the host of these communities, it is the smaller communities coming together to build the larger platform in the aggregate. It is actually a new(ish) way to do social media all together.

That's not to say there aren't issues. The influx of users has really shown the different ui/ux and technological challenges of the system, but these are the early days. The people here now are early adopters (obviously not the earliest adopters, hats off to y'all). This is our chance to work out the kinks, and build a new community.

I don't want to say stop caring about reddit. Juicy drama is juicy drama. I just don't think that should be the centerpoint of conversation. I think the conversation should center the fediverse as this cool thing we are building and taking part in, rather than trying to be Reddit 2.

Link to the site

This is just an afternoon of work, so very bare bones. Just wanted to share it to gauge interest in the project and see what people think would be good to add.

Not sure what long term goals are for this, just wanted a way to make it easier for people wanting to financially support projects like kbin and lemmy to find the links. Added a few random sites as examples

Think this case in particular is pretty interesting. Former default subreddit and one of the largest on the site (Top 20 at least).

I think /r/videos is where we'll see how things actually play out with the reddit admins. I'm guessing at some point the admins will step in and replace the mods.

I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit

Testing out kbin's microblog feature with this, hopefully the image is here. Just a screenshot of my seablock save. Since this point, added a basic metallurgy setup with temp green science. Now working on getting some bean fuel going before making a more serious slurry/science setup

Let's get some mod discussion going. Finally launched my first rocket early this year and have discovered the wonderful world of mods.

Personally, I've been playing a lot of seablock. For me, it is the best mod for doing it in small chunks. The lack of biters, the fact that I need to place landfill to start up a new area, it makes everything feel very intentional, I guess you could say. Versus normal factorio where expansion is the default.

Also have small SE and py saves going. SE only have the first few sciences and py only have basic power, so haven't really explored deep at all into those.