Amazing - 4k per hour.
The question is: is this a good thing?
@rclkrtrzckr I think it’s a good thing that people are looking for alternatives. I’m sad that most of them do it just because Twitter is bad, unaware they reached a decentralized alternative and unaware of what does it mean to them. I hope some of them will try also some other decentralized alternatives as they see fit.
Can we interact with Mastodon users using wefwef here logged into lemmy.world account? Do their posts just show up like any other? Thanks. Trying to understand
My understanding is that only kbin can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon while also showing its own threads/magazines/whatever. Lemmy can only see Lemmy and Mastadon can only see Mastodon.
I’m on kbin and also have access to read and comment on Lemmy posts, though I’m not sure how to access Mastadon as I don’t see them show up when I search for other communities…
Edit: looks like I have to search Microblogs when I want to see Mastadon. Seems kind of confusing though, I don’t think I understand how Mastodon works.
Currently Mastodon users can follow and post to Lemmy communities.
On their end both posts and new comments look like regular Mastodon boosts and from our end their posts and comments look like regular Lemmy posts and comments with extra @ tags in them. So you’ll see those on WefWef and interact with them normally.
Kbin magazines have a way to also view Mastodon posts relating to the magazine topic, but Lemmy communities do not.
Mastodon went from around 500 new accounts per hour to 4k per hour since Twitter has been inaccessible. I think it’s a good thing.
this bot actually counts all of fediverse, the name is misleading
It says
User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances
Is that not true? Does it count Lemmy and kbin users, too?
The bot uses https://instances.social/ to get the amount of users, but it’s kind of tricky since it’s not actually a good source for this type of info. If you check the website, you can find some Misskey, Pleroma, etc. instances, but not most of them. I couldn’t find any kbin instances there, but there were 2 lemmy instances. It also doesn’t match up at all with other fediverse stats websites like fedidb and fediverse.observer
Big centralised tech < novel decentralised tech
