AdaJun 9, 2023
Lemmy growth is crazy!

Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.

lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.

And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part

I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...

#fediverse #lemmy #kbin #threadiverse #calckey

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Show threadJonJun 9, 2023
@ada did you have to do anything special to make this cross-post work -- like are you following the lemmy community from this account or something like that? or can anybody just tag the community and it posts there?
Show threadAda
@jdp23 So, with Lemmy specifically (I'm not sure about kbin yet, as I haven't tested it), you just tag the community, and it posts directly to the community.

The only real consideration is that lemmy expects a subject line, so if you're posting from software that doesn't use a subject line, it will use the first sentence of your post as the subject instead. Which is why my post began with a snappy single line sentence :)
Jun 9, 2023 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadDannekRoseJun 9, 2023
@ada @jdp23 Kbin is similar but it will create a microblog post instead of a thread.
Show threadDannekRoseJun 9, 2023
@ada @jdp23 One small note: kbin doesn’t support authorized fetch yet so if your instance requires that, it won’t process it. I just a did few quick tests between Calckey and kbin from an account that was following a magazine and also with a magazine that it wasn’t following. It created microblog posts as long as I had disabled Secure Fetch in Calckey.
Show threadJonJun 9, 2023
Thanks @dannekrose @[email protected] ! It's really too bad that so much stuff doeesn't work with Authorized Fetch.

So anybody can just tag a community? On the one hand, yay federation, and I know that's how it works with Guppe groups. On the other hand ... what could possibly go wrong? 😁
Show threadAdaJun 9, 2023
@jdp23 @dannekrose The main difference is that lemmy groups are moderated, so someone can be banned from the group if they abuse the feature.
Show threadDannekRoseJun 9, 2023
@jdp23 @ada Oh, and one more thing. As best as I can tell, one difference is that kbin does not auto-boost new content to all followers. So even if someone does decide to spam the group, it would only be visible to that person's direct followers (as any post) and to users with kbin accounts (and probably lemmy, too) subscribed to the group when they go to look at the microblog posts in the given magazine on their instance.
Show threadAdaJun 9, 2023
@dannekrose @[email protected] As far as I can tell, the microblog section of a kbin magazine is very similar to a Calckey antenna. It doesn't boost anything, but simply scrapes and collates content that it finds that matches the key words set by the magazine admin.
Show threadJonJun 9, 2023
@ada @dannekrose hmm. this all requires some thought. it's interesting to look at it from a disinformation perspective. thanks very much for the info!
Show threadcaosJun 9, 2023
@dannekrose @ada @jdp23 I am also trying out how to federate content to kbin and haven't quite figured it out yet.
I created a post here in Mastodon and tagged the magazine "kbin":
metalhead.club/@caos/110508357…
However, the post does not appear in this magazine (as I knew it from Lemmy when a community is tagged).
But then I happened to see that it appears in the microblogging section of the magazine "Fediverse":
kbin.social/m/fediverse/p/4021…
Does this have something to do with the keywords that it was automatically assigned to this magazine?
There is also a test magazine. More questions of this kind could be tested there: kbin.social/m/test
caos (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Can I post to a #kbin magazine from #Mastodon, #Friendica etc.? ...with #Lemmy communities it works like this, that a post appears in the community if I tag the community account. If this post arrives in the magazine, that would already be proof that it also works this way with kbin ;-) Is there anything more to consider beyond that? Are there any special features? How are "Title" and "Body" handled and displayed? @[email protected]

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