Okay I figured out what old Reddit is and it’s rss features. Yeah I can see how that would be a way to reduce load of getting content
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Auster@thebrainbin.org 14 hours ago
Places like Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Friendica, the "threadiverse", from my understanding are slower to grow, as they are meant for specific niches.
Places for microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) and for videos (Peertube, Loops) should be steadier to grow, the former for being more engagement oriented, and the latter as most popular video platforms end up discount-Youtube or TikTok, or even those two themselves, and specially for Youtube, every few months there appears to be a blunder that could incentivize migration.
Also the amount of options to join in can be rather off-putting. Even if the person is hellbent on joining some server, if he/she stops to check the rules of each potential server instead of picking the biggest one, he/she's in for a long read.
And about sharing Reddit content, a tip, Old Reddit has open RSS for communities and profiles and you could see if the Lemmit or Ibbit administrators would be willing to track more feeds on their instances.
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
Auster@thebrainbin.org 14 hours ago
By the by, Peertube channels are treated as communities on the threadiverse, and iirc Wordpress blogs too (though I'd need to confirm that one), so maybe people could subscribe to such communities through their threadiverse accounts to help with engagement?
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
I’m say loops is fedi-washed like a reactionary. There’s no other instances, apparently it dies use the activityhub protocol.
I will comment that the major corporate sites like reddit and YouTube make hard for fediverse platforms to take off because they’re hard to complete with. When they started out they didn’t have competition people would get bored and come to them, then they would build niche communities on their own.
There hasn’t been a blunder for most of 2025. Id count the tik Tok ban generally being the last one to capitalize on (but I believe that loops project just didn’t bother to act).
I’ll have to research that last paragraph
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 10 hours ago
Loops is very new. Completely normal for a new service to have one main instance by the devs, you need an instance to test your stuff with real users. The server was open sourced in September and is now at beta6. There are in fact 8 loops servers in operation. This isn’t “fedi-washed”. It’s just very new. Give it some time and please be nice to people who build stuff for the fediverse in their free time. We need them.
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
Actually loops is 5 years old, but it seemed to have a big overhaul in the past few months as in it actually going through development and the source code is actually being published.
Apparently the activitypub protocol was announced to be implemented in October of 2025. Which is kinda funny.
Also I did hop to different instances looking for users on across instances and yeah I could only find 1 out of half dozen I tried. So I’m sceptical on activitypub protocol integration. It could be that they aren’t federated
I’m actually impressed that there is 8 instances because I didn’t except there to be more than one this year
I help dansup with loops back in February and January. I put some pressure on him for answers and well he folded and basically blocked me, so I got the impression that he didn’t have the temperament to develop loops, but I’m half wrong because well he did eventually make it open source.
Also dansup is getting paid, he asked for grants and ran a fundraiser specifically for loops, so it’s not exactly “in their free time”
73ms@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/
In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.
Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 hours ago
About size, Lemmy and Kbin (RIP) were pretty slow 2~3 years ago. Now, even though I block most generalist, region-specific and news communities, I still struggle to keep track of my feed.
And if someone tries to build something good as a job, I don't think this job of his should be turned miserable.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 14 hours ago
Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That's specially practical if it's some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.
Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.
Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?