Hello from my personal lemmy instance. ;)

In this blessed age, we are all Federation champions. Or we devolve:

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

Great to see kbin.social rejoin everyone after the server upgrades!

It is! Hello fellow kbinian!
Any idea how many users we have?

According to fedidb.org, the entirety of the Lemmy network (that uses the Lemmy software) has 140,442, while the entirety of the KBin network (that uses the KBin software) has 32,830.

That includes people it knows about from Federated servers.

For the real numbers you need to use their nodeinfo, for example: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

Kbin has 30119 right now.

you’re reading it wrong, I’ll maybe get to lokking up the link, but you’re looking at a"users in the database" count, which includes posts from the fediverse.
kbin has ~27k users

oh,29k, that was quick
https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

kbin.social has 29.8k local users.
157k is local + all federated servers.

FediDB says kbin.social has around 30k users and fedia.io has 2.8k: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

Now I’m confused. Who’s right?

kbin.social has 29K currently: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 , fedia has 2.9K

fedidb.org has roughly accurate stats or you can check the nodeinfo url for each instance to get a count of only local users to that instance

I made an introduction thread over in !chat (https://Lemmy.world/c/chat) if you’re feeling bored

Subscribed! I’ve only been once and it ended with a concussion so I’ll vicariously live through you guys

I’m getting that problem too. I saw that word - fediverse - a lot recently and it seemed like a concept that would be beyond me so I didn’t even look. Now that I have, my mind is blown and technology continues to amaze me. The networks just get larger and I love it.

Pre she ate u

Went with lemmy.one because it felt really snappy while navigating communities. I was torn between .world and .one but then I saw that beehaw de-federated from .world which I didn’t like because beehaw has some of the more popular and active subs.

The devs don’t want to run the flagship instance with all the sysadmin and moderation issues that brings. You made the right choice :)

That’s my last day using Reddit for sure. I’ve already stopped posting/commenting/and voting. I’m in read only mode now lol

It’s a shame that beehaw had to use a “nuke” because other moderation tools weren’t available, but I think it makes for a great natural experiment in the early fediverse. Beehaw wants to build an instance with higher community standards, as is their right. Will defederation of lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works lead to fewer sign-ups at beehaw? Will members leave? Will they just make accounts at other instances and keep their beehaw account? Will this help spread membership to smaller instances? It should be interesting.

Probably the integration of modding tools like AutoMod would be heaps handy here, it could automatically flag potentially troublesome posts and help cut back on spam / bad actors.

From memory Reddit uses automod and so does twitch / discord. Though I’m not sure if they actively let you integrate with it directly on third party sites

Think they would have to defederate manually, I’ve seen people running instances with only themselves as members with no complaints

The problem is when you’ve already been participating and growing your sub list on a lemmy.world account and then beehaw pulls this shit. Suddenly half my subs are taken away without warning.

I actually have not been seeing a lot of racism and bigotry. Maybe we just have really efficient mods and powerful down vote buttons.

I feel pretty sure they even said it was temporary.

Lemmy.world is extremely new, I don’t think it is more than a few weeks old but the person who created it is very active and working to improve it constantly. I think that shows in its uptime vs the other instances.

Here is the oldest post by ruud, the admin 2 weeks old:

https://lemmy.world/post/1

Agreed.

I’ve never really experienced that so much since I didn’t actually engage with Reddit but I understand what you mean. In the forum days, we used to do ‘Post Exchanges’ or other events with other communities (shout-out to ye old: https://www.theadminzone.com) to try and increase engagement. This federation system is the perfect evolution of that, its like having all of these forum communities but we can all see and interact with each other.

My only concern is that like most things, if/once it gets popular it will start attracting more of the worst of the internet (and humanity). Right now people flocking here are usually more technically inclined or those willing to put more effort into trying something new. But hopefully this is were federation can help some as its much easier to have separate communities that make it less effective for bots, trolls and other degenerates to overtake, thus keeping the content appealing and interesting to engage with.

Well, there’s roughly 33000 kbin and 140000 Lemmy
So at max 33000 duplicates?

No, in a column.

Hey, try not to join any communities on the way to the parking lot!

A comrade of culture