As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket

demvoter@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social – 146 points – As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
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The battle between Reddit and its CEO continues. With that battle continuing on, ActivityPubs user count continues to soar.

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I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"
I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

I'll respectfully disagree here; activitypub isn't catchy and it's too many syllables. Kbin lemmy and beehaw all pass the "correct-number-of-syllables-and-memorable-without-being-common-words" test.

But I prefer fediverse overall anyway. I'll tell people that i use the fediverse and made my account using kbin. i think that says it all, really.

Yeah ActivityPub is too long, agree there... maybe ActiPub, that sounds sweet 😊.

But I prefer fediverse overall anyway. I'll tell people that i use the fediverse and made my account using kbin. i think that says it all, really.

😬... you might have to do some more explaining with some people 😂.

Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")

It's short for federated universe... I like the term actually, but hey, we don't get to choose the name as far as I know.

I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

Naaah... how do you think Linux users felt when they started using it and found command names like cat, grep, tar 😂.

It's short for federated universe.

yeah I mean, we know that.

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

it was deadass on /r/technology my bad /r/worldnews when people were talking about twitter alternatives
I don't even know why I got so many upvotes considering nobody ever corrected them

Lol, that is interesting 😂. Maybe they saw the reply, decied to google, saw what you're talking about and then went "mmmm, this is some good info, upvote... nevermind these fuckers in the replies, let them suffer" 😂.

Amazon? You mean the rainforest?
Yahoo? Like a crazy person? Did you misspell the drink?
Sorry, you just tweeted? You mean like a bird?
Tumblr? Oh, facebook for acrobats, right?

Most names sound weird or confusing until you're familiar with it. A googol is a number, but nobody bats an eye when you tell people to "google" something.

Fediverse also makes it sound like some weird Metaverse thing, which isn't ideal either.

I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.

Oh, nice play there, lol, love it 😂.

I wonder what Lemmy users are to be called. I've seen lemmings.

Welcome to open software and systems. Ultra-talented and motivated people, but not a single marketer or good UI designer to be found.

I've been using an image editing program for the last 20 years whose acronym spells out "G.I.M.P.".

 ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")

That's exactly why I cringe every time I read it

Yeah Leviathan is a masterpiece though people are a little harsh on Emperor of Sand... What're we talking about again?

13 million users on ActivityPub protocol!

@wave_walnut

@demvoter

Can someone eli5 me what’s activity pub? Is this lemmy or Kbin?

Part of the fallout also involved the rapid development of ActivityPub alternatives to Reddit. Two such alternatives are Lemmy and KBin

you get a slap on the wrist this time for not looking in the article at the very least

ActivityPub is the underlying protocol both are built on - it's what allows posts from lemmy to propagate and be interacted with on kbin and mastodon users comment on both via their existing accounts. Think of it as like email protocol but for social media.

In addition, ActivityPub is a data format protocol used for communication between fediverse instance servers; Lemmy and Kbin use ActivityPub technology for federation.

Activity Pub is the open source platform that Lemmy Kbin Mastodon Beehaw and all the rest of the Fediverse is running on top of.

I just wanted to say thank you SO much for all this attention!

As for questions of the use of the phrase ActivityPub, I used that because Mastodon is also seeing the huge growth that is happening on here and Lemmy. So, the question then became whether to say it is growth in Mastodon or growth in KBin/Lemmy, but none of those made any sense. I could've went with the growth on the fediverse, but the fediverse is more of the word used to describe the type of protocol. It kind of made sense, but it made more sense in my head to refer to the protocol, ActivityPub. When users sign up to KBin, Lemmy, Beehaw, or Mastodon, the protocol as a whole benefits. A user signs up to Mastodon, then KBin also sees an increase by one user. Same thing for the other way around. So, that's how I settled on that headline in the end.

Anyway, it is SUPER exciting to see the growth of KBin, Lemmy, and Beehaw. I really like the idea of decentralized social media and the idea that it's ad and tracker free is a huge bonus. I really hope I am witnessing a huge long term success story in its early days.

Based on my experience when I was joining Mastodon in the initial wave that happened when Twitter began melting down, there's going to be some teething processes to go through. Servers will go down, doubters will jump on the slightest hint of things not going well, but I have a feeling that the growing pains will be less severe than when Twitter first got huge. Mastodon handled the initial waves of users way better than a lot of people thought possible, so if history repeats itself, people may be surprised with how well KBin, Lemmy, and Beehaw handle the unflux as well. The fun of decentralized servers!

It astounds me at the continued blindness of Huffman. He’s like a dictator of a fiefdom. Just completely unaware of the irony that comes out of his mouth. Millions of users are making their content, commenting, and modding for free and he has the audacity to say that we’re upset because we want for free something we got for a decade for free. No, we’re upset because you got for free what you now want to charge for.