Yeah, I’d love to setup a /kbin instance at some point, it seems pretty nice.

Yeah… I’m not good at naming things lol

Ahh, I didn’t get that far in the docs, but seeing as there are no (that I can tell) post limits, running a blog on Lemmy would work pretty well with a bit of a UI change.

I would agree with you… except that Reddit has always been referred to a link aggregator (and forum) since I’ve used it. It’s a bit of both.

The problem is that there isn’t really an over-arching name that you can call these services because they are all pretty distinct in their feature sets. Lemmy and kbin get grouped together often, but kbin also has microblogging capabilities which sets it apart from both Lemmy and Reddit.

Yeah, I thought the ActivityPub standard was a lot more standard than it actually seems to be. That’s probably both a good and bad thing. It would be nice to see some more cohesion though.

Oh, that is pretty cool! Custom post types does seem like an interesting solution to some problems I’ve seen with i.e. Mastodon

Totally agree, maybe that can be built out, but I think it would require a change in how things are handled currently?

Awe :/ yeah that’s not nearly as integrated as I first thought it would be :(

I wonder if it would be possible to build like, a bridge that converts different types of actions to other actions that make sense on another platform?

Ah, yeah each service seems to implement certain things in different ways which is interesting, and maybe something to work out in the future. I kind of like to though, it draws you to a particular interface depending on the context and features you want for that type of content.

As a “replacement” for Reddit (I think that moniker is selling it short, it can be so much more), it makes sense. Reddit and sites like it, depending on the specific community are really just a place to share content from outside sources and discuss that content with a like-minded community.

The other type of subreddit I’ve see are tech support style where someone is asking a question of a group of people who are likely to have a good understanding of the subject matter. I think link-aggregation-style sites are the best interface for these at the moment as well.

I’d probably call this niche of fediverse apps “fediverse link aggregators”. Their UI really only makes them useful for that at the moment (IMO - haven’t tried kbin), and you can technically follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon if you want (it’s not a great UX), but you don’t get the aggregation doing that. At least not without sorting down to just that view.

I would just call it the fediverse to be honest. Technically they all federate content, and I could respond to this post from Mastodon or Lemmy and it just works.

I think people referring to Mastodon as the fediverse is kind of similar to someone saying “the reddit for <video game>” instead of “<video game>'s sub-reddit”, if that makes sense?

That would have been good to know before setting this up lol. Oh well.

Ah, so it seems like once you’ve setup an instance at a domain, you’ve kinda burned that domain unless you use like a subdomain. That’s a bit annoying, but I guess it makes sense.

Yeah, I use GH/CF pages already for most things (except the images blog(?), that’s on Medium of all places).

I guess it makes sense to keep the blog it’s own thing and just link to it when I write something.

Ah yeah I’ll have to fill out my profile and do an introduction post!

Oh awesome, that’s a cool service that relays provide.

Oh! I did set up a few relays, I didn’t realize they worked both ways! So posts I make on my instance go out to the relay and people subscribed to the relay will see my posts.

Yeah, I’ll have to do that.

Thanks for the info, that helps clarify things.

Ah okay, so the 2 people and one bot that follow me would be seeing my posts. That seems pretty underwhelming, but makes sense lol

Yeah, I’m going to see if some of my IRL friends are interested, but I’m not sure how many of them use Twitter/Reddit/etc currently.