JohannesOliver

Yeah I think it is. If you go to settings you can change the default (under “Type”).

It doesn’t seem like they’ve been doing things like that at all.

You can find some in beehaw’s list of blocked instances.

Not really. Usually you have to request the community vs creating it yourself. Allows the admins to curate.

There’s a good chance your account was activated. I don’t think notifications were going out for a bit.

One would hope! I can find results from lemmy instances on Google - they are definitely crawling them, but their page rank is going to start out very low.

This has to be the first time I’ve seen someone praising reddit search, as opposed to a search engine.

Try changing the type to what you’re looking for. By default it will show all. Otherwise I’m not too sure what the issue is, if I search “brining up Reddit” this post is the result.

That’s kind of the point. Reddit still benefits from that content.

It needs to affect revenue. To do that it needs to last.

Multiple. Locally I have Timeshift doing btrfs snapshots every so often. This is mostly to roll back to a snapshot if something breaks. I've never had to use it (and probably should).

I use Pika backup every once in a while for a local backup to an external drive. Mostly because it's easy to restore quickly.

I have duplicacy doing backups to a cloud provider. I used to use duplicati for this, and it was fine - although I didn't like that it seems to be forever in beta. I like that duplicacy can do deduplication between backups of different machines which most other solutions I've seen cannot. I like its selection of cloud providers vs Borg/Vorta and some others.

Joining is immediate, where some Lemmy instances require manual approval even now.

The main page comes off as more approachable and familiar. They also have a ton of local communities (or "Magazines") so people can do a lot even without the Federation. I find the Microblog stuff somewhat confusing, I think because it doesn't have much of a UI built around it so it is less familiar than Mastodon. It is fairly centralized though, in the sense that there aren't that many kbin instances out there.

The stats page lists users it knows about, including Federated.

Local counts can be seen at: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

FediDB uses the nodeinfo for its stats gathering, but has a delay.