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Mastodon evangelist Tim Chambers @tchambers is now on #kbin @tchambers@kbin.social (https://kbin.social/u/tchambers) and has created a “magazine” (kbin for “subreddit”) to discuss everything #RedditMigration:

Welcome to RedditMigration! >>> https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303

@mastodonmigration is also now on kbin as @FediMigration@kbin.social (https://kbin.social/u/FediMigration)

Why not create a #kbin ( https://kbin.social/ , https://kbin.social/register) or #lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/) account and join the fun?

—@mastodonmigration

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Holy shit.

Boost this one, please.

The #FOSSdroid subreddit is not only going dark for two days, but the moderator there is spending that time spinning up their own #Kbin, and encouraging the subreddit members to move.

The Old:
https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/146i45k/migration_to_kbin_and_the_fediverse/

The New:
https://social.fossware.space/

The Man:
@NettoHikari

Every subreddit that’s “going dark” for 2 days and then going back to “business as usual”…if they did this instead, #Reddit would either die or cave on the API thing inside of a week.

—@nattiegoogie

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I do feel more than a little sympathy for @ernest.

In January he decided to try to build an ActivityPub based messageboard system.

A month ago he decided the code was stable enough that he could release the first alpha version, and stood up https://kbin.social to demonstrate it.

It attracted quite a few users per day and proved that it might just be an exciting new entry into the Fediverse.

And then Reddit’s admins did their thing, and suddenly thousands, millions, tens of millions of users are looking for a new home. And although a few other brave souls have also created kbin instances in the last few days, there’s simply not enough capacity to even begin to cope with all the demand.

#kbin #Fediverse #RedditMigration #Reddit

—@losttourist

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Some work news: I could not be prouder to have worked with a tremendous coalition of advocates and researchers and my clinic student attorneys on the new #FCC rules for #videoconferencing #a11y, more than a decade in the making. There are serious barriers for deaf, hard of hearing, blind, and low-vision folks to participate in the virtual meetings that have become de rigueur in every part of American life since the pandemic, and we are finally going to get some fixes. 🙌 https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-requires-video-conferencing-accessibility-proposes-asl-support

—@blakereid

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There’s a Fediverse alternative to #Reddit called #Kbin. More info at https://kbin.pub

Still VERY new, not many servers yet, two so far in English:

https://fedia.io
https://kbin.social

No app yet, use it through these sites. Subreddits are called “Magazines”. You can interact with magazines from other servers.

Coders help Kbin at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core, non-coders donate at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

(Sorry to people bored of this, had many requests to put info in one place)

—@feditips

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In reply to @TRodick93.

@TRodick93 Basically crazy API pricing, to the extent that the developer of Apollo would literally have to pay millions of dollars per year to keep the app running. And the CEO is apparently intent on burning it down despite the protest, which is why Lemmy and KBin and to a lesser extent Mastodon are seeing a huge uptick in traffic/users. Well Mastodon may be seeing some due to Elon toying around with the idea of removing the block button from Twitter.