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@feditips
Still trying to figure this shit out. How do things like #kbin or #lemmy or #feddit interact with my brand new account here?

In my dream world, I would subscribe to such a "Magazin" and get it posted on my home feed. And to discover new stuff, I could simply search for a keyword and get a fitting magazine or community recommended.

Here's a quick sneak peak at my #Lemmy mobile client. The design is obviously based on the Boost #reddit client, my client of choice.

Once I get the functionality to a comfortable spot, I'm going to adjust the styles so they aren't so close to Boost.

@tgpo

IMPORTANT

@feditips and I strongly discourage using #Lemmy. Here is why:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110522257089980041

#Kbin can be used instead.

Woah. #Lemmy usernames are case-sensitive? It might become a problem in other #fediverse software, which treats usernames as case-insensitive.

#Mastodon had this issue in its early days (2015/2016).

* The capitalised “Fediverse” is a user profile.
* The lowercase “fediverse” is a community/magazine.

See attached screenshot (as seen from #Kbin).

For me, this is a #bug. Other fediverse software where usernames are treated as case-insensitive will be stuck in the first version it sees and saves in its database. The other one will be inaccessible.

Reasons to stop using #Lemmy and start using #kbin:

1. Privacy reasons. When a comment is "deleted" on Lemmy, the comment is actually only hidden to all except instance administrators. The comment remains on the post and continues to display the poster's username. This persists even if the account is deleted. kbin does not handle comments this way, and your deleted comments are removed. (Full disclosure, idk yet what happens when a kbin user deletes a comment on a Lemmy post, but I'm looking into it!)

2. kbin offers a sweet community search tool that not only searches kbin communities ("magazines"), but also Lemmy communities and even Mastodon groups! This means you can easily find communities all across the #Fediverse for any of your interests.

3. kbin has a much nicer/more modern UI. It's got some quirks, but it's easier to read and navigate than Lemmy by default.

4. Customization options! Lemmy has themes, which is cool, but kbin has themes and lots of fun toggles to change your experience.

5. Last but certainly not least, Lemmy devs have a pretty shit stance on human rights. (See here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379). There are communities like #Beehaw, which are super friendly and non-problematic instances separate from the Lemmy devs, but it's worth noting that instances like Lemmy's flagship instance and Lemmygrad are run by folks with some grossly misguided views.

All-in-all, if you are looking for a new home for content aggregation while #Reddit has its little meltdown, I will endorse the heck out of kbin based on what I know rn.

OK, in anticipation of the #RedditBlackout, I’m looking at alternatives here. Any resources comparing #Lemmy vs. #kbin? #AskFedi

Facinating to watch a potential #RedditMigration to the fediverse. The #Lemmy and #Kbin teams are dealing with all the same issues that Mastodon and other fedi microbloging sites did - but in even a faster timeframe as much of Reddit appears to be set to go dark on Monday. Questions of how to onboard, questions of centralized vs distributed onboarding, questions of how to explain servers and federation, and deep questions of how to scale if traffic is anyting like it could be Monday...

I noticed something odd with #lemmy The only way to login after creating an account and logging out is to perform a password reset. Upon reset, I'm logged in, but if I immediately log out and try to log back in with the password I just set, the login button spins indefinitely.

Something is borked. Seems to be a common issue, though no github issues exist for it... Anyone else see that?

NEW VERSION OF MLEM IS OUT
This update is big, and there's more coming later! This update addresses these issues:
- New icon by the amazing clay! Stay tuned for more icons, including Pride! In the future, you will be able to choose between lots of icons, and submit your own
- A whole bunch of crashes related to loading communities
- Some posts showing multiple times in the feed
- (Hopefully) accounts being deleted between app launches
- A few issues logging in
#iosdev #lemmy #buildinpublic #mlem

Reminder!

Be patient with the #Fediverse, especially the next few days.

Half of #Reddit is about to go dark (tomorrow).

We have Fediverse-friendly alternatives here, #Kbin and #Lemmy, maybe others ...

And they're about to experience a weird version of the Reddit #HugOfDeath ... perhaps Mastodon and the whole Fediverse, too.

Servers, moderators and admins may all be overwhelmed.

Even though the shift is small, it's big enough. It's incredible watching the Fediverse grow; first with the Birdsite flocking to #Mastodon, and now with #Lemmy and #Kbin growing in popularity (I only recently learned about Kbin)... this type of growth is enough to kickstart more people coming over here.

I'm looking forward to #Tumblr maybe joining sometime soon (oh, the memes you can see!), maybe some prominent Twitch people will try out #Owncast, maybe I can get some of my family over here...

With the on-going #RedditMigration, #Lemmy is getting more attention.

Are you aware that there is an alternative #frontend to Lemmy? It is called #LemmyBB.

“LemmyBB” is a custom frontend for Lemmy which makes the UI look like the #phpBB #forum software with #ActivityPub functionality.

The source code is available here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

We can probably even say that we now have an ActivityPub forum software; and all we need was a different frontend for an existing fediverse software.

#Reddit #forums

[[Lemmy]] [[Reddit]] [[RedditMigration]] [[LemmyBB]]

@feditips You can setup your own instance and not connect it. #lemmy

@thanevim

I've indirectly followed this #Lemmy issue, or rather seen a lot posted about it

It's not the software side of it so much as the #Moderation (or lack, or style thereof) on specific Lemmy instances

Tankies, Neo-Euro-Nazis, homophobia, etc etc

Lax moderation generally

You may need to do some homework beyond just the technical #Federation side of it all

No: I do not have time to provide links for you

cc @feditips

Hey @feditips , I recall you mentioning #lemmy isn't a great idea. Have you put anything up on the website about #reddit , er, "alien site" equivalents in the #fediverse for the sake of those in exodus of alien site?

So it seems a sure thing that Apollo, Sync and RIS - three of the most popular 3rd party #Reddit apps for iOS and Android are all shutting down by EOM. I was there for the great Digg Implosion / Migration, but honestly no idea where things are going to land from here? #fediverse federated solutions seem ideal, but #lemmy last I checked had servers with double digit numbers of members... Were do y'all plan on link aggregating?

If you want to join a lemmy instance … Some mastodon etc admins are running parallel #lemmy instances:

Lemmy.world (run by @ruud of mastodon.world and others): https://lemmy.world/

Lemmy.Blåhaj.zone (@ada of blahaj.zone): https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/

Infosec.pub (@jerry of infosec.exchange and others): https://infosec.pub/

Probably some others.

Maybe more mastodon admins would be interested?

It might be interesting if mutual accounts could be established across parallel platforms.

I kinda wish #NAS also had a #Lemmy instance tbh