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"#Threadiverse" - nice term. :)
On the technical side: I'm doing this toot from the Mastodon side. I used
https://MYINSTANCE/authorize_interaction?uri=LEMMYCOMMENTURL
where MYINSTANCE is the instance I'm on (https://framapiaf.org) and LEMMYCOMMENTURL is the comment I chose to reply to (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/90402).
If I understand federation correctly, my reply should/could turn up on the lemmy instances involved in the thread - even though I don't have a lemmy account.
lemmy.blahaj.zoneReddit Wave and the Threadiverse - Blåhaj LemmyAs much as there is plenty of new people joining the threadiverse, the real wave
starts today, with thousands of subreddits going dark
[https://reddark.untone.uk/]. Existing Lemmy/Kbin instances get hammered with
new user registrations and deploy different coping strategies. Some plead
[https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770], some close registrations. New instances spring
up [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]. Soon, mainstream media will
discover Lemmy exists. They will probably miss Kbin entirely, and most will also
be very confused about the federated nature of Lemmy. Some might be able to
remember Fediverse exists. When Kbin finally shows up on their radar, they will
find it difficult to explain how it fits into the narrative they already spun.
My money is on someone calling it a “fork” of Lemmy. 🤣 Eventually, as more
instances start turning off registrations, and as some buckle under the load
temporarily, the narrative becomes “this is why Lemmy will fail.” Threadiverse
will get treated like a VC-funded walled garden. Media will be flabberghasted at
how “poorly” Lemmy and Kbin were able to “capture” the people wanting to migrate
off of Reddit. They will complain endlessly about how hard it is to choose an
instance, “confusing interface”, and ask “thoughtful” questions on “how will
they monetize”. Eventually, the wave subsides. Maybe Reddit reverses their silly
ideas, maybe people get tired. There is a drop in active user accounts on the
Threadiverse, compared to the peak of the wave, which is then taken as “proof
positive” that Lemmy and Kbin could never “succeed”. What they will ignore, of
course, is that by then Threadiverse is several times bigger and more active
than before all the Reddit insanity. Communities stay active, people stay
active, and slowly Threadiverse grows, as (just like the broader Fediverse
[https://doctorow.medium.com/of-course-mastodon-lost-users-c48ef8102891]) it is
not a VC-funded startup that needs a hokey-stick growth. It’s a long-term
project of making community-run platforms work. And that takes time, and effort,
and love.