Kbin reminds me so much of what I loved about Reddit when I first joined 14 years ago. Is anyone else struck by the complete lack of ads on any of these instances? It’s crazy how quickly almost everything loads.
Yes!! And the active non-toxic community.
There are UI improvements to be made and general coordination and understanding of the fediverse (eg. discovering communities, duplicate communities, etc), but we will get there.
And the active non-toxic community.
Most of the users have some organs which, when consumed in sufficient quantities, are considered toxic. The key is to eat the users in moderation.
But I only tried moderation for the first time this week! Don’t eat me! Go eat the moderators over on Reddit, that’s what they do over there.
But…your name is eggy…
I prefer referring to my moderators as doors instead of keys, which are also far more gestational.
reddit tried to eat the moderation and it failed, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Yes!! And the active non-toxic community.
Give it some time…
Agreed. Reddit was awesome before it got ruined as well.
I think this is an important consideration. What should be done different to mitigate toxicity?
Honestly it’s exciting to be able to ask these sorts of questions and potentially be able to act on it. I’m inclined to say:
- There’s an optimal size to subreddits. Small subreddits can be toxic, large ones are unless they have ultra strict moderation (so basically askhistorians).
- Massed users from other subreddits can easily overwhelm and torpedo communities, even ones larger than themselves if coordinated enough.
- There aren’t any sort of feedback mechanisms or checks on moderators.
3…2…1…
NO YOU’RE A POO HEAD
there goes the neighborhood
Honestly, it has been a breath of fresh air. Lack of trolling, and no bots, it is old reddit.
And the puns, jfc the never ending stupid puns.
Yeah, the feeling is the same one I had when I started using reddit about a decade ago, much better than the current bs that seems to constantly permiate the current reddit platform.
Did r$ddit ever exist without trolls?
Struck
I honestly don’t know how anyone functions with baseline internet jamming ads down their throat every other second.
if you’re raw dogging the internet this place is probably the most amazing thing ever but for me it’s what the internet has always been.
if I’m seeing ads anywhere something has gone very wrong somewhere.
Install Ublock Origin.Oh, I’ve been a uBlock Origin user for years. On the desktop, at least, it’s just neat to see the adblocker sitting idle for once.
Kbin/Lemmy and Mastodon remind me of Reddit and Twitter back when the communities on the platform felt more like, well, communities. I don’t think Kbin is quite at the critical mass yet (and personally I don’t like either Kbin or Lemmy’s UIs, while I do love Ivory for Mastodon), but I’m actually really enjoying the platform. Hopefully it continues to grow organically.
Right?! I have both Lemmy and Kbin, but Kbin is the one that reminds me of early Reddit the most. I hope it gets a mobile app soon.
@ENEMYGUNSHIP. I’ve hardly touched reddit in several days. I’m thinking of keeping it for the random search I can’t seem to find answer elsewhere, but I am happy here, most of the topics I went to are starting to or have moved over here, so bye bye reddit.
Same, it’s hard not to use Reddit for searches.
I searched for recommendations for parking in a somewhat random area - and turns out there were five other posts with similar questions and about 6 clear cut comments from people who knew the area.
I won’t be active though - so good luck to them with new and interesting content. That’s where I’m here for now and it’s already giving the fix at a beginner stage in development.
if you’re using reddit for searches you don’t need an account, you also don’t need to give them traffic, just click on the cached version.
@metaStatic cached version?
You google search with insite:Reddit.com and use the 3 dots next to the link to open the cached version instead of clicking the link
@metaStatic
Cool! Did not know that. Thanks 🙏
@ENEMYGUNSHIP
It’s the first time I’ve posted in A YEAR AND A HALF that wasn’t immediately downvoted, literally within seconds - just like most of the posts and even comments regardless of content and occurring with super-human speed in our tiny gaming sub, which Reddit admins do nothing about despite me (a mod) complaining multiple times with obvious examples mentioning that I have literal screenshots of people asking to brigade it.
I was thinking of Reddit as being less toxic than our Discord server - and tbf it is that:-P - but I forgot what “friendly” and “welcoming” even was, b/c it had warped & twisted my mind, normalizing such behavior as if “nothing can be done”. But it can - I can leave!:-P
🤗
I’ve popped over to reddit a few times since this all started and the place is just a fucking black hole of anger and toxicity, every sub.
I don’t even care that there is growing pains here as the platform literally crawls out of the womb - kbin is an infinitely better community already.
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best part: no spez, no censorship
It’s better than “no censorship”. It’s “whatever censorship you and your instance agree on”.
Don’t like the rules at beehaw? Cool, leave beehaw! Too many boobs in your “all” feed? Cool, block the domain or join an instance that doesn’t federate with them. It’s just SO much better this way for everybody.
Steve Huffman and reddits admins are beginning to remind me of a rabid chihuahua.
Btw, since Reddit is censoring it I’ll say it here, FUCK u/spez!!
All my homies be lovin’ this Kibin shit!
The thing about masking your weaknesses with false bravado is that it makes you look like MORE of a dunce to almost everyone else.
It’s so obvious and overdone that it’s actually got a full article on TV Tropes.
Sure he may pick on people weaker than him, but if he happens to realize his opponent can effectively kick his ass, either he will find a lame excuse to get out of it, or he’ll stubbornly refuse to back down and get his ass kicked just for the sake of form.
Don’t expect that to make him think twice the next time, though: the Boisterous Weakling shows an astounding inability to acknowledge his own impotence.fuck spez
They are censoring that? How? (just asking, was not aware)
Reddit seems like a second rate site now. Lol sad but true. i opened it the other day and was like dam this stuff is stupid now! of course i was in old reddit :P
I accidently went to Reddit website not through rif yesterday and still need to get the eyebleach
This is kbin. Come on in. We’re ahead of the curve, but we know /u/spez is dead at the curb.
Your visit is long and great, we hope. Should you stay forever, help us float. For Reddit is gone, Spez is a fucking asshole I hate poems.
I tried out Lemmy for a couple days after the Reddit drama started, just decided to try out kbin instead and think it’s pretty great. I’m very happy to stop using Reddit :)
I wonder if here, Spez becomes the lurker or if he gets a shit post troll account?
He’d just start a jailbait mag I’m sure.
You mean the previous moderator of jailbait? That spez?
“The Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers” but for Spez
But that means we’d be obligated to have one Spez
Has anyone claimed the spez username so he can’t have it?
Agreed. And if it had a proper (customizable) mobile app, I wouldn’t need a second Lemmy account either!
@hariette is working on one called Artemis!
Here’s the magazine: https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp“Heavily inspired by Apollo” - sounds promising!
I think a decent app would also entice a lot of reddit fence-sitters to make the switchHey, 404 not found.😅
It seems Kbin’s been having some hiccups serving magazines because I’ve had the same thing with 404 errors - it should work if you refresh a few times
I only open reddit every once in a while to go through my subs to see if they are now on the threadiverse
Be the change you wish to see in the world and CREATE SUBS that haven’t migrated yet.
Theoretically yes, but I just do not have the time or willpower to manage a community.
So far so good, it’s been nice being away from reddit. Just waiting on post hiding/hiding when upvoting/downvoting :)
And being able to save posts and stuff for reading “later”
A temporary work around is using the upvote (aka favorite) and the post will be shown in your favorites, whereas the “boost” acts more like an upvote on kbin
I’m shocked at how many users there are on kbin/lemmy and how explorable it all is. Though there are fewer users, it’s way friendlier and less circlejerky than almost every Reddit community I’ve explored. Plus, unlike Mastodon, it’s been incredibly easy to see other magazines or even other servers on my frontpage, search for them, and join them. I honestly wish the Fediverse doesn’t become mainstream, just so that this sort of community can be preserved.
Hasn’t even been a full week since I opened my account and the growth I have seen every day has been INSANE. From <50 upvotes, <20 comments, and <5 boosts 100+ upvotes and comments in the span of 5 days has been pretty cool to see.
