With our growth numbers and with kbin finally with Lemmy again, things around the link aggregator fediverse feel more active than ever. Today when browsing all on Jerboa I saw so many more communities, posts, and comments than even yesterday. It’s starting to feel like we have some real traction going on here. Let me know if you agree or disagree.
Edit: fixed swypos
I’m really surprised how easy it was for me to stop going to reddit. I had several daily hours on there with the sync app. I guess I just like a sense of community and honest people trying to provide information or discussion about their favorite hobbies/interests, and I found it here as well.
Some of my favorite communities are in the instances that Beehaw defederated from. However the instance I use chooses to federate with everyone so I can see everything from everywhere.
I decided to self-host my own instance for that reason. That way I’m actually totally in control of what I’m seeing. It does make finding new communities less organic, but it’s easy enough with the new listing tools. Probably not worth the money if all I ran on my server was Lemmy, but as an added service it’s great.
I do have a homelab and could easily self-host a personal Lemmy instance if I wanted. But I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort.
The ansible install on ubuntu wasn’t too bad, tbh. I haven’t touched anything backend since I installed, and it’s been chugging!
I really love that since kbin and lemmy federate with each other, there’s really no real drama about the budding rivalry because whichever one you choose you won’t have to miss out on content from the other! Plus having two separate platforms only increases the diversity and resilience of the fedi-aggregator universe. It makes it harder to kill/write off and its also the end goal of why we’re all here in the first place! 😊
it was pretty exciting when kbin opened up federation again and the posts came flooding in.
RIGHT. Yeah, with all the BS and the blackout on Reddit right now, I decided it was the time to check out lemmy and kbin. Liking jerboa so far! Haven’t really figured out the difference besides how the “subs” are laid out yet though. But, onward and upward.
