Kierunkowy74

I blame this on an UX blunder.

Bluesky users are taught not to enter their Bluesky passwords to enter different apps, but rather create a different "app password" for each one. Then Frontpage went OAuth which directs users to Bluesky login page. Bluesky brings us a different login page for OAuth use :/ and obviously does not remember that we are already logged in in the same browser.

This of course means that we have to enter a Bluesky password to a slightly different-looking website - a somewhat fishy way to authenticate a user...

Or even 33% as we should count PieFed and Mbin too (this makes 48k MAU overall). All 3 "apps" make one network.

The best way to do a migration is to do it with joy and awe. Mbin has no kbin.social's big numbers, no ernest's individual vision, no marketing, no promise of awesome development, and a rump of spontaneously forming culture of the flagship instance.

Many of these "redemptions" still depend on scale - both of the local instance... and the external Fediverse. /kbin and Mbin benefit from Mastodon, but its MAU is shrinking too...

People don't generally flock for a software. Maybe for wobbly windows, but we are not doing e.g. Misskey-Flavoured Markdown here (yet?)

IMHO for the same reason why Myspace has over hundreds of millions of MAU and Spacehey has got only over million of users overall.

IMHO solving UX sins does not bring new users. It rather helps not to deter them.

The Great Migration from Reddit did not repeat with the same scale, as with Great Twitter Migrations. Even then, most people IMHO return rather to their already existing accounts on already existing instances. Fedia.io has over 5 thousands total users, less than dozen Lemmy servers.

With the lemm.ee going down, we will witness a MAU drop. A non-zero number of people care no more about federation and will not make a switch.

There might not be enough stock of users to repeat /kbin's growth right now. Even recent developments at PieFed make its MAU number only slightly larger than Mbin

One of the reason, why /kbin has achieved the success (so large, that eventually took it down...) has been it solving much of these UX sins:

1. This was only by chance, but as /kbin was ~not already~ never ready for third-party hosting, there was only one non-Polish speaking instance of /kbin (flagship kbin.social). This is another reason, why registration numbers made briefly kbin.social's MAU greater, than that of entire Lemmy software!
   But what about decentralisation? As I probably have argued when /kbin yet existed, the Threadiverse could as well consist only of lemmy.ml, piefed.social and a Mbin instance (or the Feediverse might by only mastodon.social, misskey.io, flipboard.com, and Pleroma/Akkoma instance) and still be decentralised. Several carbon-copy instances are the simplest way to make an interoperating network - but not the only one!

2. /kbin of course is a Threadiverse app and evades this sin by definition. A Lemmy user never has to browse an empty "timeline"

3. This is a cursed solution for this sin, but with so great scale of flagship instance (and no alternatives) much of the federation work has already been done by more determined people. And if not? Then...

4. ... we can just say:

This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation.

and call it a day. :D

Five. This has been solved partially by Lemmy and its community Announces, and partially by scale.

Six. Of course everything on Lemmy and compatible platforms has to be posted to a community. However /kbin's magazines did more than that. They also aggregated (already federated) microblog content based on included hashtags. The magazine mod could specify, what hashtags would be aggregated under the mag.
The sidebar on /kbin's posts also includes sections like Related Magazines, Related Threads and Related Posts (for toots etc.).

Seven. ... and Active People. And "People" is one of the entries on instance's navbar. Yes, different one for every magazine, so you could follow anyone active in the topic.

All of these has been inherited by Mbin, its fork (well, maybe not its size xd)

There is Interstellar, which I'm using right now.

You might like https://piefed.social/.

• Usual controversial instances (hexbear, grad, hilariouschaos...) are banned here,
• Posts and replies with many downvotes are collapsed by default,
• You can individually block any (whole) instance, community, users and linked domains. You can also filter the keywords,
• Any much-downvoted user will appear with red warning sign

Updated, thanks!

It's default on lemdro.id, suppo.fi and fedit.pl

Updated, thanks!

Something similar is available for PeerTube:

• Platform redundancy by P2P, and
• offload of transcoding and transcription to Remote Runners