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Very saddened to see.
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A great and thoughtful article.
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Very appreciateive of all the work Ernest and everyone has done here.
The moderator rebellion is crushed, there are no longer any third party apps competing with the official Reddit app and Reddit seems to be as popular as ever.“It’s a nice time right now,” he says. “I think we’re executing really well.” In 2024, the company plans to focus on three pillars. 1. Maximizing ad revenue 2. Charging AI companies for training on its data3 . Enabling users to make money from Reddit
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Really good interview, well worth your time.
www.cnbc.com
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Kbin: covering all the current news and rumours out of Russia about Wagner, a possible coup, etc. Reddit: *crickets* Make of it what you will. 🤷♀️
indieweb.social
Web visits to top 5 [#Kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/Kbin) and [#Lemmy](https://kbin.social/tag/Lemmy) servers over last 30 days...
With the upcoming [#meta](https://kbin.social/tag/meta) [#Project92](https://kbin.social/tag/Project92) Fediverse service, this is a plan to fight smarter in how to both protect our users, *and* how to be better battle plan to protect the Open Social Web.
took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit's co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit's still-raging protests: [https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html](https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html)
indieweb.social
New research from my team on the [#TwitterMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/TwitterMigration): This is our 3rd quarterly update on which platforms are growing, new entries such as [#BlueSky](https://kbin.social/tag/BlueSky), [#Substack](https://kbin.social/tag/Substack) Notes, [#Nostr](https://kbin.social/tag/Nostr) & all public data on Meta's [#project92](https://kbin.social/tag/project92) Includes latest on the [#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration), New polling, new posting data & more. Welcome any notes or feedback & boosts! Get it here: [https://is.gd/5PJQH7](https://is.gd/5PJQH7) cc: [@spreadmastodon](https://mastodon.social/@spreadmastodon) [@fediversereport](https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport) [@fediversenews](https://kbin.social/m/fediversenews@venera.social)
indieweb.social
Visits to the top 5 [#Threadivese](https://kbin.social/tag/Threadivese) servers as of today. [#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration)
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Great idea. On it.
techcrunch.com
"He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite blackout."
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I voted for "Artemis" but YMMV...
Poll: What should be the final name for the [#Kmoon](https://kbin.social/tag/Kmoon) app for [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin) and [#lemmy](https://kbin.social/tag/lemmy)? Below some suggestions from the community.
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Our goal: to be a better place for new users to onboard, and to be an organizing hub or those looking to spread Mastodon and the Fediverse. Opening up all the source code so any Fediverse portal can reuse. For example a SpreadKbin site could modify and use.
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Andreas, Did you see this? This is where we are building for, would appreciate any notes to this idea and if it would alleviate your concerns about centralization: our goal would be to swap out one sever and swap in new ones over time to spread out far beyond four overall. And Mastodon.social staff are not involved and would not have any say over the four.
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would be a good idea to make a tag or an alert featured on the magazine if it appears no mod has logged in in over X days, with a link to apply to become one. Not sure who would approve that takeover tho... but a tag alone would be a warning to users that it was functionally unmoderated.
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Fully agree with every word.
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the source code here is all open and we encourage others like Kbin to use to make their own "SpreadKbin" onboarding portal.
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More about this launch here: https://mastodon.social/@spreadmastodon/110554132079617918
spreadmastodon.org
A portal for new users to join Mastodon, exiting users to enrich accounts with more follows, and for organizing to help [#TakeBackSocial](https://kbin.social/tag/TakeBackSocial) and spread the open social web and the Fediverse.
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You can see them all here: https://fedidb.org/ mid way down on the left.
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Can you describe to me how after the plugin is active, it should work for a Firefox user with a Kbin account browsing a Lemmy site? Is there any visual difference after the plugin is working? Or just links now go to your local Kbin server?
From Feb: "Make no mistake, there will be future Fediverse surges. The internet’s corporate social spaces are in terminal decline, having arrived at the final stage of enshittification, where impatient investors insist that managers reel in the hooks they set in both users and suppliers, using their lock-in to extract every iota of value we wring from the platforms. The managers and shareholders driving these enshittifying grabs will continue to overestimate how valuable their services are to us, and thus how much value we will forfeit if we go over the battlements of their walled gardens. Meanwhile, the experience of the Fediverse will only get better and more obviously valuable to users. Fediverse developers will continuously improve the service, even as the technical concepts one has to master to establish oneself become more widely understood and less esoteric." [https://doctorow.medium.com/of-course-mastodon-lost-users-c48ef8102891](https://doctorow.medium.com/of-course-mastodon-lost-users-c48ef8102891)
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Another great kbin magazine focused on the [#RedditBlackout](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditBlackout) & protest....
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I could be very wrong, but FediDB is the source of this bot, and the developer there thinks that the Stats number at the footer of Kbin includes remote followers from the Fediverse, but the number he gets from the API counts local users. Would love someone who knows the tech of how Kbin defines stats on the lower footer to confirm.
indieweb.social
Hourly Mastodon bot that uses Fedidb data to show the total local users on all known Lemmy and Kbin servers
So, assuming I'm reading this data on this page correctly: Fedia.io has gone from zero to just under 11,000 users: [https://fedia.io/stats](https://fedia.io/stats) And Kbin.social is now at around 120,000 users: [https://kbin.social/stats](https://kbin.social/stats) If so, then this is the more quick source of latest numbers than the updates to [#FediDB](https://kbin.social/tag/FediDB), etc. UPDATE: I don't THINK i was reading those fully correct. I think those numbers include remote follows of each server from the fediverse, not being only local users. This is a great number too, but not the number of local new users if that is right. (Someone please confirm)... Local users may still be best tracked on [#FediDB](https://kbin.social/tag/FediDB).
Love it here on this flagship server for [#Kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/Kbin), but question: maybe we should find two other well-run, well-hosted servers to recommend to [#Reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/Reddit) users tomorrow and the next few days to avoid a crush of traffic on this one? Maybe: [https://fedia.io/](https://fedia.io/) and: [https://kilioa.org/](https://kilioa.org/) What do folks think?
This is where breaking news, the latest numbers, information, and questions about the [#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration) will be posted. There will also be a place to discuss tactics to best help users make that jump and feel at home in the Fediverse. Welcome!
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tchambers@ kbin.socialTechnologist, writer, admin of indieweb.social. Fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa.