@[email protected] In a pub trivia competition thing that asked people about things they've done in their lives, or things they want to do, I won the "white sheep" award, which means my answers were the most average of everyone present

@[email protected] Oops, that was my fault. I'll fix it up again

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This has been fixed now! There was an error importing an emoji that took the site down right after we went to bed.

@jo @[email protected] @supakaity Kaity made some changes to the database server config a couple of hours ago that has hopefully fixed this one.

Are either of you still seeing it?

@[email protected] How long is the name of the sub you're trying to create? Is it longer than 20 characters?

@[email protected] It wasn't an oversight as such, more that I am naïve to the politics involved. In my mind, as long as they weren't attacking queer rights, then it wasn't a priority for me.

However, prompted by several requests, I've done a bit of a deep dive to bring myself up to speed, and have made the choice to defederate lemmygrad.

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Even though the "threadiverse" is basically #lemmy + #kbin, they're not at all dominyant on the fediverse

This is the part that I believe might change. I've seen several people effectively move from micro blogging to the threadiverse, as well as many people who never used twitter, and who are experiencing the fediverse for the first time through kbin or lemmy.

Combine that with the crazy growth of those spaces even before reddit shuts down the APIs makes me wonder if micro blogging might end up being "one of the features" rather than the default feature.

I don't actually know how true this is technically, but I would imagine that once you follow a community/magazine on lemmy/kbin, you and your instance see everything from that community, not just some arbitrary sub-sample of replies like with microblogging.

Bingo! And due to the dedicated interface, you're not trying to find a reply from amongst a timeline, but you instead have a sorted listed of threads, with the whole context right there at a click. It makes it much easier to drop in to a conversation that happened when you were asleep etc.

It's not as personal, so it doesn't give you the same "connecting with friends/audience" feeling that microblogging does, but by the same token, that makes it easier to drop in and out of without any existing history or connection to the space.

This is where /kbin is interesting as it fuses both microblogging and "threading" ... which IMO is the master format for a platform ATM

I agree! That is a killer feature. I am hoping that there is a way of changing the interface on the microblog posts to thread them in with the main posts, rather than hiding them away on a distinct tab, but either way, having both options there is fantastic! That is the killer feature of kbin, and also the reason that some people have been able to leave dedicated microblogging platforms in favour of kbin

@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 :)

@[email protected] The Fediverse really took off in November when twitter jumped the shark. It's been around for many years longer than that, but the twitter influx really changed the shape of the community. And now the reddit influx is doing the same thing again