Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.
In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 mods admins for its 12000 users?!
So much going on!
Everyone joined mastodon.social, especially the low effort shitposters and other people who aren’t wanted on many servers. Having to figure out what instance to choose filtered those out, I suppose.
Mastodon eventually got media rejection and limiting (“silencing”) support for entire domains. Media rejection is important because Mastodon copies all media onto their local storage (including the nasty illegal stuff from other hosts) and silencing is the solution to “this instance is creating too much abuse but we still want the good folks on that server to be able to follow our local users”. Limited users (and domains) can still be followed and interacted with, but they won’t pop up unless you seek them out. It’s the better alternative to blocking all mostly-unmoderated servers; that’s the server wide moderation method Lemmy can do right now.
Gotcha. Do we know if lemmy is getting something like that soon?
You’ll have to check the Github issue list and pull requests for that, I don’t know. The massive influx of Reddit refugees has put a lot of attention on Lemmy but in terms of development they’re still quite a small team, so it’s possible these changes will take a while. There’s a huge backlog of work, dating back years in some cases.
Hopefully the newfound popularity will also attract developers to speed up the improvements.
There is also the sister project kbin.social, it pulls in Lemmy and Mastodon content. We’re currently working on getting more instances set up for kbin and there are more features being added as well. kbin.social is the “main instance” but I think there are like 10 or 15 now in total that have been spun up.
I believe this is the link that shows the other instances: https://the-federation.info/platform/184 (I’m not 100% sure because it appears to be down at the time of me writing this comment)
bug/feature requests for kbin: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
Kbin is also very interesting, but less prevalent. I considered setting up kbin instead of Lemmy but when I did so kbin still boosted every single upvoted comment which would make interaction with Mastodon users very unpleasant. That has since changed, I believe.
I’m still not entirely sure if I want to put in the effort of migrating (Lemmy related app development seems more active) but who knows! I’ll just wait and see how things pan out I guess.
There is also the sister project kbin.social, it pulls in Lemmy and Mastodon content. We’re currently working on getting more instances set up for kbin and there are more features being added as well. kbin.social is the “main instance” but I think there are like 10 or 15 now in total that have been spun up.
I believe this is the link that shows the other instances: https://the-federation.info/platform/184 (I’m not 100% sure because it appears to be down at the time of me writing this comment)
bug/feature requests for kbin: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
It would be amazing if Lemmy implemented silencing/muting instances, it would make a great middle ground between fully federating or defederating so that it’s less binary and absolutist, and allows more individual freedom within mod actions. I think having a spectrum of choices when it comes to interaction will help social media networks a lot, because it means there are more ways to deal with problems and it more mirrors real life social groups, which means the dynamics are less artificial and distorted.
As I understand it, on Lemmy media is hosted on your instance only. When you see a picture from a user on another instance, you’re loading it from their instance.
That’s true! But I was trying to answer the question regarding Mastodon.social. All Lemmy media is indeed hosted only on Lemmy, unless a Mastodon user boosts it (then Mastodon will also host a copy).