Where you on reddit when Digg collapsed? Because it wasn't just a solitary wave. Like human migration around Earth in prehistory, it was multiple waves, each motivated by different reasons.
QHC
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People switch behavior patterns for a reason. It doesn't matter how good or bad either option is, most people won't even be aware that switching to something else is an option until whatever they are currently doing fails to meet their needs in some way.
We just saw this play out with Kbin and Lemmy. It wasn't something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event. The Fediverse just happened to exist already, but if Huffman hadn't gone on an ego trip then they probably would have stayed very small things for the forseeable future no matter how good the experience was.
I like how it says their "updated" API rate limits but doesn't mention when those rules went into effect or how much warning they gave developers.
Spoiler: the answers are "very recently" and "not even a month".
How is it even possible to have "official" vs "unofficial" categories in a decentralized, trust-based system that is designed to never be 100% interconnected?
Is that federated? If no, why not promote Mastodon or Kbin's microblog, or something else within the Fediverse?
From what I have seen so far, I am confident he wants to and will eventually do this, he is just completely overwhelmed right now.
I would encourage you to read his recent "apology" post to get a sense of how he is approaching his role as admin. So far, he appears to be saying and doing all the right things from my perspective.
I don't think this is unintentional. Kbin is a separate thing than Lemmy which is what most other instances are using. It makes sense that magazines would be prioritized over communities in terms of discoverability.
I would like to see someone explain how restricting buying options is a good thing that lines up with "conservative ideals"?
Just answer a simple question: why should anyone believe this is anything but a blatant example of regulatory capture and legal bribery?
You were being influenced by social norms long before you were old enough to form memories, and likewise not being aware of societal expectations does not mean it is not happening or does not have an effect.
If you want to see or interact with Kbin using Jerboa, you should be able to do that via your lemmy.world account as long as you have the same subscriptions set up in both instances.
I believe that instances can independently choose whether to accept incoming or allow outgoing data, so there are multiple possible combinations.
For anyone else that was already using the "Kbin.it" style, looks like this conflicts a bit (up and down vote buttons didn't look right). I ended up just turning that off now that Kbin has directly added those features (expand/collapse comment tree and moving the reply form to the top of the page).