Welcome to our 2nd anniversary recap! Since the First Year post, Reddit’s executives betrayed us, so we moved to Fedia. Today, I just finished reposting all 400+ of the old subreddit’s content to Kbin. For organizational purposes, I’m designating this post to be the boundary between the second year and the third year, even though it’s 11 days late. Today is the day we assert our independence from Reddit and start posting new floaty things that I’ve never posted before. There’s no turning back now.

We’re still setting into our new home on Fedia, and things are a little wonky. The main issue at the moment is that Lemmy still timestamps all my posts two hours into the future, which gave us mass exposure across Lemmy and Kbin in ways we probably didn’t deserve. When I noticed this happening, I slowed down my reposts to one every two hours so I don’t spam up Lemmy’s new article sorts with future timestamps. That schedule is what delayed this post by 11 days. There are additional problems with thumbnails not federating and Kbin’s “Add new image” creating posts with no body. Overall, though, I think we’re adapting well to our new digs. I hope the other art-focused subreddits notice us and see how well it can be done here.

Here are your top ten posts across Reddit and Kbin between August 3, 2022 to August 14, 2023:

1. Chasing Waterfalls by Chris Austin #airswimming - 229 votes
2. Kiki’s Plant Delivery Service~ by Yuumei #levitation - 208 votes
3. Stars and Coffee by Star15 #levitation - 187 votes (45+132)
4. My clumsy guitar by kawayoo #levitation - 157 votes
5. Still in a dream by Taupe Syuka #balloons - 128 votes
6. Hinata no Aoshigure (Sonny Boy & Dewdrop Girl) poster by Yojiro Arai #weightlessness - 113 votes
7. Bat Umbrella by nekura_neko #multipletypes #windpower #airswimming - 93 votes
8. Kiki’s Flower Delivery by Yuumei #levitation - 89 votes (75+14)
9. Evening Visitor by Hannah Alexander #levitation - 85 votes (66+19)
10. Morning in Space by Gen #microgravity - 84 votes (3+81)

Most of this second year top 10 were actually first year posts on Reddit, but they got a lot more attention when reposted here to Kbin. Only the last three were actually posted on Reddit after August 3, 2022. I counted the Reddit upvotes for those three only. Morning in Space is the all-time top post on the old subreddit but barely made this year’s top ten.

The Third Year post should happen on our actual anniversary August 3, 2024 unless something shakes up Fedia.io and we have to change plans again. Until then, let’s have a good time, airheads!