I find this news disconcerting coming from such a large instance so early on. Many of the criticisms of Lemmy I’ve been fighting against on Reddit have had to do with defederation and the possibility of getting cut off from your favorite communities on your main account. I handwaved that away as being extremely unlikely save for the exception of NSFW or extreme political content. But this news has taken me quite by surprise. Perhaps I should have seen it coming given the community Beehaw is trying to foster.
This really makes me wonder what will happen to instances that make this decision. Will their communities diminish in favor of the more accessible ones? Will this decision hurt Beehaw in the long run? What does this mean for the Fediverse in the near future when fighting against its detractors has been such an uphill battle?
Thoughts?
I want to clarify my position before going into the rest of this - I like Kbin the most because it feels much nicer as an end-user.
There’s nothing wrong with Kbin and Cloudflare. The Cloudflare issues prevented Kbin.social from federating properly with Lemmy instances, harming its potential growth and community reach. Due to those federation issues (which only got resolved last night on .social it seems), I’ve had to make 3 more accounts on 3 different servers (fedia, lemmy.ml, and blahaj) in order to get the experience that I had a few days prior with only this account and a kbin.social account. That’s 4 server operators that have my information in order to access two services, instead of just the one. I’m kind of done with that.
There’s likely going to be another reddit migration in two weeks when the bigger third party apps officially shut down, which means I’ll have to juggle websites again when shit starts breaking under load. These issues in my opinion, are a deal-breaker for many people, including myself. I’m tolerating it for the time being because I spent almost 15 years on reddit, and they deserve their Digg moment.
why lemmy.ml and blahaj? Aren’t they the same federation-wise?
undefined> why lemmy.ml and blahaj? Aren’t they the same federation-wise?
They are identical as far as I know. I went to blahaj first because it was smaller and the page loaded faster than .ml at the time of registration. There was a period that I couldn’t see anything from .ml on blahaj or Kbin but could from .world and couldn’t pull anything from .ml when searching so I registered there in case they defederated.
Also, you show up as “undefined” when I direct reply to your comment. Not sure if this is a bug.
undefined> Also, you show up as “undefined” when I direct reply to your comment. Not sure if this is a bug.
This always happens here as well, when I cite some text from a comment. Probably just one of the many bugs.