Fediverse

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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

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Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave to c/fediverse

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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] CosmicCleric 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I hate to be the one to say this, but yeah, there's a big reason why they shouldn't be pushed to another server, at least not right now at this switchover from Reddit point in time.

Most normal everyday people don't even know what federation is, and tend to not like it when they find out, as it causes extra work on their part.

They just want a central location where everyone is socializing together, and don't care at all about the fediverse, except as maybe an escape hatch if some c-suite type goes evil.

There's already a hurdle people jump over on change in general, so we should minimize the effort of that change and coming over to Lemmy from Reddit.

Edit: typos

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

I created an ~~instance~~ user on programming.dev and have had almost no issues seeing other posts.

You don't need to understand how it all works to use it