ManuWhat‘s keeping us from promoting Lemmy on Reddit?
GiantBasilIn my experience lemmy was the most suggested alternative on reddit and then tildes, the only time i ever heard abou kbin was the day before the blackout with the subreddit ban and then during it.
I'd never heard of kbin at all until I actually signed up to a Lemmy instance.
I'd heard Lemmy mentioned somewhere before (I've searched for reddit alternatives a few times in the past as I got increasingly annoyed by their pushiness towards the app), but only really took notice of it a few days before the blackout when I saw it mentioned many times on reddit.
Yeah, I only got an actual link to kbin during the blackout here on lemmy, it was surprising to hear they got so many people so fast. It's nice they did, i just don't remember seeing anything about them on the alternatives subreddit or anywhere else.
thegiddystitcherKbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!
Oh, that makes sense then! mastodon, much like twitter is still a big mystery to me.
It's a whole new frontier! :D
It is! And I do want to figure out mastodon, if anything, for their Crafting/art community, but I'm having a bit of a hard time figuring ou if/how can I go around visiting other instances I know its possible somehow because users from different ones show up for me, but mastodon is the one in struggling with. It's not like lemmy or kbin where I can see stuff, they prompt meto make ne an account before I can see anything and I just don't know how to find the people in the other instances from mine yet. :(
The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you've not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you're interested in, that way people will come to you!
Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? 👀 lol
Oh, you definetly don't, I haven't found the courage to post anything yet lol, but you'll find me eventually, cause I really loved your profile so I'll be following you once I have some time to sit down and focus a bit on mastodon again. Thanks for the tips I won't give up on mastodon and try them out
I think we'll get along fine, I do embroidery in general, and I'm trying to drag myself back into sewing and crochet, it's been a few years with those
thegiddystitcherDo it do it do it, Mastodon is just as friendly a place as Lemmy in my experience.
I've had to migrate my account off Beehaw today sadly but on the bright side it's given me an excuse to explore more instances. Still haven't come across a sewing or embroidery / cross-stitch community anywhere. I'll have to look harder tonight. Have you seen any yet?
Not yet. That's one thing I'll miss from reddit until they pick up here, that's for sure. Let me know if you find anything!
Yeah, the defedeation thing, I really like Beehaw, and I ended up making a lemmy.world account too, so I'll just end up using both of them at the same time :V
That's fair. My gamedev account is on .world and honestly it's been fine, we're not savages over there or anything :D
I've found a new crochet community that only has a couple people but they're at least trying to post things [email protected] (direct link)
[email protected] (direct link)with one solitary post, dunno if they'll accept my cross stitch but it is technically embroidery so....
And a couple of sewing ones but neither have much going on.
- [email protected] (direct link)
- [email protected] (direct link)
Still, all it takes is for us to get stuck in making content, right? :)
For sure, I had, great experiences on world so far, I think they're just worried about the possible future, perhaps.
Thanks! I'll join those as well with an alt account and hopefully we'll be able to grow them.
Just checking back in with an update, I found a brand new cross stitch (and embroidery) community too. It's on one of the defederated servers but since you have an alt accout already...
:)
Cross stitch and embroidery - sh.itjust.works
Share your stitching and meet new crafty folks! All forms of embroidery and all skill levels welcome 🪡 — 1) All instance rules apply: see sidebar at sh.itjust.works [https://sh.itjust.works] 2) WIP/FO Posts should include pattern details (at least name, preferably link). 3) Relevant self-promo from community members is acceptable but will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Exclusively salesy posts may be removed.
Omg, thank you, you're my favourite user here <3
Oh bless you! Just doing my bit to try and help people find their way around :)
That makes sense, from what I’ve seen kbin integrates with mastodon as well (I think you can even set it up so some mastodon hashtags get included in their versions of communities)
Yeah I think you're right. And they'll hopefully fix their tech issues soon so we can all be one big happy family again haha
FlufferyKbin I think is really new, I've only heard it mentioned fairly recently, and I been exclusively using the fediverse for about a year now
I like the kbin UI and ergonomics a little more than Lemmy.world, but the underpinning tech isn't going to scale efficiently, being based on PHP. I have a sign on over there too. It's comfy, but intermittently unusable or unresponsive. So there are some teething pains here, but Kbin is also part of the fediverse, and will hopefully start opening up more federations soon. That should hopefully reduce some load and more users.
The more the Fediverse at large is able to draw off the Rexxit™, the more we all win.
R0cket_M00seFunny, I mentioned joining Lemmy on reddit and had someone go "join tildes, it'll be easier" and then I went to tildes and in the first comment chain about rexxit there was a guy like "now I know it's much harder to join tildes than Lemmy" and I didn't know what was going to be easier or whatever but I liked the federation idea so I came here lol