Posting as a new thread just for visibility cause lolfederation (ya know, loltna’s slightly more annoying cousin).
So at this point I think it’s clear we’re moving unless if some kind of miracle happens (and while we had the intent originally of waiting until March 18th for any finality in the decision I’m not sure if we’ll survive that long lol).
I’ve spent the last couple days testing several instances (both Lemmy and Mbin) and checking how fast, slow or inoperable their respective Federations seem to be and personally I’m leaning towards the final decision being either Lemmy.zip or Fedia.io as the frontrunners for both software types. I feel Lemmy.zip may be the best choice as (despite no content aside from myself and Jello making the odd thread) the community has already pulled almost 60 subscribers, and Lemmy has a bigger pop/longer existence meaning it might be around longer than mbin/kbin, but that’s a community choice.
So - Community Task Time!:
When you have a minute today please visit the SQ community on both:
https://fedia.io/m/SquaredCircle
https://lemmy.zip/c/squaredcircle
And I’d like you all to:
A) Make sure (from whatever instance you intend to keep using for your own personal account) that the community shows up for you. If 90% of you can’t see one or the other, there’s no point selecting it…
B) If they do, please comment on one of the existing posts (there’s 1-2 on each community) just to make sure your comments go through and properly federating out. Just make a comment below confirming you did comment in either community so I can keep track when checking. If you already have commented or posted, you’re good.
In the meanwhile I’m gonna resume posting news and whatnot on lemmy.zip so it’s at least out there.
You already saw my comments on lemmy.zip., so we know that’s working. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to mess with fedia and other stuff because I have work tonight and should have been in bed over an hour ago.
My only concern with Lemmy is it locks out the mastodon people
i don’t know a lot about kbin but i know i can access lemmy posts and everything from my mastodon account - or is there tighter integration in kbin?
Mastodon users can and do post on Lemmy threads, Lemmy users just can’t read what they post that aren’t replies(whereas kbin users can, when federation is working). You’ll notice microblog users because they use mentions when replying.
@roguetrick and I don’t want to give it up!
I’ve seen a few comments about UI on lemmy and just wanted to put it out there that we also have these interfaces you can use:
old.lemmy.zip and m.lemmy.zip - and while yes usually the m denotes a mobile interface but it also works really well on desktop/tablet if you don’t like the usual lemmy interface :)
there’s also draculemmy - https://userstyles.world/style/10759/draculemmy-a-dracula-theme-for-lemmy :)
I still very much dislike Lemmy, and really like K/Mbin but they are both shitting the bed on Federation… I understand why things are heavily leaning toward Lemmy, I don’t have to like it though and obviously, I made an account to keep posting with you lot.
I’m with you on that. Lemmy’s interface, UI, whatever you want to call it just doesn’t appeal to me that much. It really sucks that Kbin shit the bed.
I legit just got notifications just now at 5:23am for the convo we were having yesterday, on the other thread, via fedia lol
Another left field option: I’m happy to turn over squaredcircle@sh.it.just.works if ya want.
Regardless I really wish we moved before the ppv. My Lemmy app doesn’t see this post or the ppv thread 😢.