took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit’s co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit’s still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html
Reddit is gonna burn and we all will witness it. A. Reddit Hangs up its boots and goes Dark. B. u/spez resigns and all third party apps come back. It’s already to late. Long live the #fediverse , Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon
Random question… I dumped reddit and jumped on to Lemmy. But I keep seeing things about mastadon and kbin also. What the difference between all of them? Are they all federated and sharing the same servers?
They are all federated. They do not share the same servers.
You’re actually commenting on an article on kbin.social.
Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon are all different ways to view content posted to “the fediverse” which is basically a bunch of different small servers communicating with each other. They’re basically different ways to do view and interact with the same posts, kinda like how you use different services (gmail, etc) for email, and then access that still with different software (browsers, or thunderbird, or what have you). For instance, right now I’m responding to your comment from kbin on my desktop browser.
Everyone already mentioned that they’re federated and running on small servers. From a user perspective, Kbin is most similar to Lemmy as they are both similar to Reddit, but they are different in that they are completely different projects. Kbin seems to have fewer instances running right now, so everything on Kbin is a little more concentrated among the instances that do exist. But since you can access both Lemmy and Kbin from either, I’d stick with whichever one has the interface that you prefer.
Mastodon is similar to Twitter in how it looks and how people use it.
Lemmy is Reddit.
Mastadon is Twitter.
Kbin is a bit of both.
They federate. So imagine using your Reddit account to reply to a tweet. And vice versa.
They don’t share the same servers - they just communicate with each other. Kind of like how I can use Gmail to write to a friend that uses a Yahoo Mail.
@ryknow replying to you on kbin! Federation is really nice!
Yeah, honestly I just realized today that I haven’t been on Reddit at all for anything all week. I’ve been on Lemmy (on a few different instances ever since this all started, but I’m finally feeling comfortable and not tempted to check Reddit at all.