Yepp, it works surprisingly well. I assume one of the similar communities will eventually "win" on one of the instances, like with similar subreddits over time. Also some instances will go full specific, like nature or movies or gaming etc. See the growth of lemmynsfw already, lol.
I'm really liking it a lot. I wasn't too amused by Mastodon either, but as you say: for link aggregation, for specific communities, for discussing topics (and not being about people, but about topics) this is a perfect match.
On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.
No, I've changed it.
My reddit name became known to a couple of my friends during the 10 years I was there and I want the total anonymity again.
It's such a weird thing for me too. You are too old for eating cake, doing funny noises, comment x or y. The fuck I'm too old for anything.
At some point last year they had 1400 employees. One thousand fucking four hundred.
For a link aggregation site.
I'm just speculating of course, too, but could be some kind of sharding e.g. in the DB level. I can imagine the little subreddits draw little traffic hence fewer shards are allocated to them (like how S3 works).
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