Small communities that are similar should think about mushing together for activity. Example: Hiking, Backpacking, Thru Hiking. It will generate more Activity and then branch out. We have too many niche pages that won’t be active.

  • Brome
    1•1 year ago

    @livus@kbin.social Thanks for noticing! 😉

    Yes I’m going to catch up with all the changes that happened. It’s cool to hear that Ernest is still here. One of the last things I remember hearing from here when I was active on kbin was that he was considering stepping out of the project and giving the keys to someone else.

    • livus
      2•1 year ago

      @brome he did mention that in the early days because he seemed worried he wasn’t going fast enough, but I think we all talked him out of it. :)

      He did take some time out to deal with personal life, a couple of people made a fork (mbin). But the changes we’re seeing these days made it worth the wait!

    • Brome
      1•1 year ago

      @livus@kbin.social To be honest, the thing that made me give up on kbin, a few months ago, was the federation problem between kbin and other services.

      The thing is, I have a lot more followers on Firefish than on kbin, and I’d like to be able to boost kbin content with my Firefish account to make it discoverable for people who follow me. But boosting is impossible for “link” type posts, which make up a large portion of the content posted on kbin.

      Also, even though I was able to boost “thread” type posts, they didn’t look great on Firefish or Mastodon. Especially on Mastodon where they were reduced to a simple link pointing to the original kbin post, which is not very engaging.

      I’m really looking forward to seeing these issues fixed. I think the threadiverse and the micro-blogging communities could benefit a lot from being able to correctly communicate with eachother.

      • livus
        1•1 year ago

        @brome ah, I’ve been wanting to try out Firefish!

        I was never a twitter person so the engagement with Mastodon has been really interesting for me, and an unexpected perk. But I guess I’ve been focused on me seeing their content rather than vice versa.

        • testing
          1•1 year ago

          @livus
          accs on misskey and its cutlery set (firefish, foundkey, iceshrimp and sharkey being the most important among them) are mostly unaware of what is happening on the threadiverse

          mostly using a hajkey acc myself, i agree with @brome - although i tend to use kbin more frequently now, as kbin development regained steam

          if sharkey were able to federate better with both kbin and lemmy, this would be a giant leap @Amelia @Marie

          @Vej @scrubbles @Blaze

          • livus
            1•1 year ago

            @testing thanks, good to know. Sharkey wasn’t really on my radar at all so it’s interesting that it’s the one closest to federating with us.