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My only concern about both as things grow more (we're not done yet by far) is the best way to distribute new accounts. I had no clue when I made my kbin account that there were others, and I'm guessing more may come online as people who can host figure it out.
kbin and lemmy both need a site where people can sign up and be 'recommended' an instance that is load-balanced based on user count.
@Rhaedas
Whats your concern? That you didn't know lemmy.ml existed and thought kbin was "the" thing people were talking about?
There is a legitimate concern with one platform on the fediverse becoming the “main” platform. That platform will make all the decisions when it comes to wider fediverse. Much like GMail is now with email.
Indeed, however it's not worse than the current situation is now with Reddit.
Yes, but unlike with Email, I can host my own instance and expect it to federate with other major instances. If you have a residential IP then you can forget hosting you own Email because major players don't want anything to do with you due to spam.
It's possible this can happen to the fediverse, but I'm more optimistic about it because the fediverse is generally not a business venture like Email is now.
Sorry, to clarify - there are other kbin servers besides the main .social one, although most are in other countries and wouldn't suite me anyway. Point is, right now it's a best guess and no real guidance on the best route to take for someone totally new to the idea.
@Rhaedas where can I find a list of these servers? Also, is there a way to see which servers kbin.social federates to and defederates? I know on Lemmy it's simply /instances
kbin.pub has the listings under instances. I don't know of any defederation with anyone and kbin.social.
@Rhaedas This is all the information that they have of any instance, which doesn't include their (un)links: https://i.ibb.co/Z6zWgz2/image.png
source: https://fedidb.org/docs/api/v1, under
/software/{slug}@Rhaedas As far as I can see, this is a list of Kbin instances that exist, not a list of what any kbin instance is federated to or defederated from.