We can only hope we learn from Digg and Reddit ourselves. As in: us, the people using social media platforms. And if we do learn, we hopefully will not repeat the error of putting all our eggs in a bunch of walled-off, centralized baskets.
It is, in fact, up to us.
You can join communities on KBin instances, you can post to them and comment on posts in them, and KBin users can join communities on Lemmy instances and post to them, and comment on such posts.
So, "yes", but you might have to subscribe to a given community first.
Well, to me Rust suggests that a given software project might be somewhat more performant, and somewhat more secure — but it all also depends on the developers, of course.
A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.
Oh I am not saying it is not doing fine. I just found it super-interesting that a much younger project got ahead, even if perhaps only temporarily, as far as active users are concerned.
I find it very active, once you follow a few active accounts. People boost interesting stuff into your timeline, you can follow hashtags directly, and on smaller thematic instances the local timeline is a great place too, so there is plenty of ways to get a nice active feed.
lemmy might be counting people who have posted this month and kbin might be counting anyone who has cisited the site.
The data is from The-Federation.info, and the idea is that the metric is about users whose accounts were active over the last month. I think "active" in both cases means "has logged in recently".
Big respect to all the devs for handling this growth so well.
Absolutely. Sending all the hugs and good vibes, the Big Wave has not even started yet, I think.
Might just be a case of a relatively new project still figuring stuff out.
Sounds about right. And there is always a possibility of someone creating a migration tool.
Lemmy is written in Rust, has been around for a while, and there are a bunch of established communities on established Lemmy instances already.
KBin is sadly PHP, relative newcomer, arguably better interface, and no baggage.
That's all I got myself. Hope others will chip in.
To be able to ride the wave of popularity of the term "decentralization". Just like BlueSky.