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geddit.social was technically my first Lemmy instance (although I used /kbin earlier and more than this). Owned by Stux (mstdn.social, pixey.org, gram.social,…) but it was late for lemmy.world-like growth.
trivia: Stux tried also to make a /kbin instance, (along with other prominent Mastodon instance owners. Only Fedia.io, from infosec.exchange survived. Kudos for Jerry). He has called it forum.fail
For a brief moment it was one of 10 largest Fediverse instances by MAU. I dont’t remember now, if it was not larger than even lemmy.world
Pleroma (including Akkoma) is aimed at smaller instances, which don’t necessarily have enough popular local posts or followed accounts to make a sufficient number of reposts.
Local feed shows better how is instance like anyway.
Make an account on MBin instance and use Interstellar.
This is how an offtop category on ICD Forum looks like on PieFed. Yes, it’s in Polish
Yes, you want to sort posts on Discourse or NodeBB by Active. Check “View community on another server” ;)
If it federates to Mastodon, then it will federate to PieFed too.
Federation with PieFed worka fine.
One cannot go past hundreds, maybe few thousands MAU without a significant hype and mainstream attention.
Mastodon was the decentralised social network and main ex-Twitter alternative at the time. Misskey attracted Japanese artists from a specific theme , exiled by Twitter. Pixelfed benefitted with Instagram’s moderation drama and then with a Streisand effect. Its autor helped it with some marketing but this only helped with the migration wave, not caused it. Lemmy and /kbin grew on Reddit API debacle. PeerTube is one of self-hosting video solutions and a P2P video platform and a federated one. NodeBB and WordPress carried over their legacy user bases.
No other platform has more than several thousands MAU
MAU numbers for Misskey are underreported as many instances report it wrongly as 0.
Mobilizon does not count its instances’ MAU. Gancio has got no user accounts - events are published there anonymously and there is only one ActivityPub account to follow, which relays everything from the instance.
It was a great website. You could feel the fun of exploring everything together with hundreds of new users, from Lemmy communities to Mastodon toots with great threading of discussions. From custom magazine CSS to Collections (remade by PieFed as Feeds). A new, emergent website culture and the promise of later progress (we were meant later to have e.g. flairs (as Badges), and federation with Mobilizon).
You are seeing /kbin software as a Reddit alternative, but it could be more than that. I am aware of attempts of making, based on /kbin, a newsletter/blog platform (instead of Substack?) or a local social media website, as an alternative to Facebook local groups.
Mbin should still be able to view any post from subscribed blogs (be it from WriteFreely, WordPress, openwrite or Ghost), as a full article and the view of it should be very clean.
Did you mean Vivaldi? It features a sidebar already with their own Mastodon instance: Vivaldi Social featured as one of sidebar entries.
A Vivaldi account allows to use not only Vivaldi Social, but also to make a WordPress blog, with federation available too.
For other Fediverse software:
Huger than you think: this top 10 included Mastodon instances.