Really though, from what I’ve seen in other discussions surrounding it, it’s a genuine mystery as at the time I’m writing this (and as far as I’m aware), there’s been no further information on what happened with it, why it’s offline, etc. Lots of speculation, but no direct info to go off of.
? You can search for Kbin magazines & subscribe to them via Lemmy, as well as post to them/reply to posts that are federated and the like. There have been some issues/delays in federation between the two, but not too different from those between Lemmy instances, unless something has recently changed with Kbin again in this regard.
All good! There were some initial issues with Kbin/Lemmy federation, at first I think it was that it wasn’t enabled just yet and later it was related to their configuration of Cloudflare or some CDN, I think, to help in handling the traffic, but it was eventually resolved.
Sometimes it is, say here: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
But you might as well say why isn’t Mastodon included? Kbin is a fundamentally different platform and architecture, even if the two are largely compatible (as is Mastodon, to a slightly lesser extent with Lemmy).
It is perfectly reasonable to look at the growth of Lemmy, think of it like quoting use of one flavour of Linux - Linux uptake overall is also interesting, but not the same.
But it makes sense to include it here since kbin and lemmy are both link-aggregators and both part of the fediverse. From lemmy.world you see beehaw.org in the same way as kbin.social. No important differences. Same can not be said about Mastodon.
The issue is that the page where the screenshot was taken from doesn’t allow to list both Lemmy instances and Kbin instances at the same time. You need to take two screenshots to show both services, or to use another listing source that shows all services you want to be shown, and I don’t know whether it exists or not.
I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a “long tail.” Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.
The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I’m most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you’re interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.
Block, baby, block. I’ve been blocking tons of communities/magazines I don’t want, and that really helps shape my feed into something I’m not annoyed at.
I can’t even estimate the number of reddit accounts I have/had over about 13 years or so, but right now I’m at 1 lemming and when I lost sync for reddit, I had about 8 accounts i regularly used.
It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @[email protected] moved it to lunanode (Canadian). Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.
Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.
Here’s a blurb from a doc I’m working on:
Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.
We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it’s related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!
Rules
Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Hey that’s me!
didn’t realize i picked one of the top ten instances. lots of programmers here.
Tech enthusiasts tend to make up the early adopters of a new social media platform, and programmers tend to have some level of passion for technology.
Threads must be the exception.
Threads is new but not novel. It’s essentially just Meta Twitter and is using Facebook and Instagram to give it automatic momentum.
Ha, glad to see our instance made the board!
Hell yeah! Not sure if I’m active or not though
“Active users” in these sort of metrics tend to just be one sort of post/comment in the past 30 days, so probably!
I’m a little surprised the one I picked made it lol
Lemm.ee is omnipresent
And it was created only 9 days ago.
That’s wild
A bit more than that😅
Funny, I got 9 days based on your oldest post! 😄
When did you create lemm.ee? Thanks for all hard work, by the way.
According to my cake day, it was just over 1 month ago now
I’m old enough to remember a simpler time before lemm.ee was in the top 10 largest instances (it was 2 days ago when I signed up)
The sudden death of VLemmy and temporary closing of lemmy.world pushed a bunch of people here I think.
Did the admin say anything or just pulled the plug and vanished?
It’s a lemmystery.
Really though, from what I’ve seen in other discussions surrounding it, it’s a genuine mystery as at the time I’m writing this (and as far as I’m aware), there’s been no further information on what happened with it, why it’s offline, etc. Lots of speculation, but no direct info to go off of.
Indeed, no one has heard anything yet. It’s very strange, I hope the VLemmy admin is ok.
I’m one of em
I’m another!
Time sure flies when you’re having fun!
I’m a lemm.ee veteran! Yup, been here a whole 10 days now.
Same!
I just created an account there to avoid some of the lag from all the traffic. I know nothing about this instance, lol.
Why is kbin never included in these breakdowns? Is it not “formally” considered lemmy or something of that sort?
It’s not, no. Though I do wish we got some of the same cool charts like this from time to time. Kbin is great.
Kbin is different software that accesses the same infrastructure. Kbin prime can interact with Lemmy, but Lemmy people can’t interact with kbin (yet).
? You can search for Kbin magazines & subscribe to them via Lemmy, as well as post to them/reply to posts that are federated and the like. There have been some issues/delays in federation between the two, but not too different from those between Lemmy instances, unless something has recently changed with Kbin again in this regard.
Oh, that’s completely different from what I had read when I first got here. Thanks for the correction.
All good! There were some initial issues with Kbin/Lemmy federation, at first I think it was that it wasn’t enabled just yet and later it was related to their configuration of Cloudflare or some CDN, I think, to help in handling the traffic, but it was eventually resolved.
Sometimes it is, say here:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
But you might as well say why isn’t Mastodon included? Kbin is a fundamentally different platform and architecture, even if the two are largely compatible (as is Mastodon, to a slightly lesser extent with Lemmy).
It is perfectly reasonable to look at the growth of Lemmy, think of it like quoting use of one flavour of Linux - Linux uptake overall is also interesting, but not the same.
The Linux distro concept is a great analogy.
Kbin is a link aggregator independent from Lemmy. It’s like talking about Mastodon and Pleroma.
But it makes sense to include it here since kbin and lemmy are both link-aggregators and both part of the fediverse. From lemmy.world you see beehaw.org in the same way as kbin.social. No important differences. Same can not be said about Mastodon.
The issue is that the page where the screenshot was taken from doesn’t allow to list both Lemmy instances and Kbin instances at the same time. You need to take two screenshots to show both services, or to use another listing source that shows all services you want to be shown, and I don’t know whether it exists or not.
fedidb.org threadiverse tracker does lemmy+kbin stats
Was vlemmy.net one of those before it, ah, went off to see Titanic?
I can’t recall seeing it in the top 10 within the past month when I started tracking. It only had about 4500 users though.
I think it was 15 or 16 in the days before it fell.
I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a “long tail.” Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.
The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I’m most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you’re interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.
All i know is I spend half my time on lemmy/kbin now blocking stuff because it’s just stupid meme after meme after meme.
That wasn’t the case a few weeks ago.
That’s a good thing, don’t fear it
Block, baby, block. I’ve been blocking tons of communities/magazines I don’t want, and that really helps shape my feed into something I’m not annoyed at.
You could also subscribe to the stuff you want and switch your main feed from all to subs. Whitelist instead of blacklist
blacklisting is better though if you like to see things outside of your bubble
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
How many if you include kbin?
Kbin adds another 63k.
Impressive
But remember too some people have multiple accounts and are active across at least 2.
I have 4 on lemmy and 1 on kbin and I have posted on all 5 in the past week.
I can’t even estimate the number of reddit accounts I have/had over about 13 years or so, but right now I’m at 1 lemming and when I lost sync for reddit, I had about 8 accounts i regularly used.
Thank you for those posts!
90% 2nd accounts on lemmynsfw.
Are all of the communities nsfw in the instance?
Should we make a /c/science community and discuss the latest developments?? 😂
It will be full of nsfw pictures of people wearing lab coats in no time. So, an absolute win.
No, almost all of them
Cool, I got in before a quarter million!  (my first comment)  *typo
How is lemmy.ca not in Canada?
We’re just behind cloudflare, the server itself and all us admins are Canadian.
That is very odd! The content certainly seems to be Canadian, though.
It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @[email protected] moved it to lunanode (Canadian).
Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.Edit: found the answer from @[email protected], TL:DR is CloudFlare
That seems plausible.
Found the answer.. Edited my comment to include it.
Nice to see my curiosity helped others :D
The great Canadian-Dutch war. 4 people were injured and Kevin’s mom made pizza pops for everyone after.
Hold on, is it not? Checking…
EDIT: Weird that it is private… But I guess that’s fine since they’re using a CDN… https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.ca
Happy to see that my instance shows up! https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.fancywhale.ca
Bn
I’m curious what the Services column means.