Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.

I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how other's are taking it.

For me, I feel a bit of a sore hollow spot for what reddit used to be and watching it implode is not fun for me.

Gazumbo,

Reddit really helped with my mental health so it’s been touch. I’m hoping Lemmy/Kbin will be able to fill that void but I’m accepting the fact it may take a while. Though, as much as I want a reddit replacement. I don’t want the fediverse to lose the community feeling either.

Jaysyn,
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Not at all. I've been more productive at work too.

Mostly_Harmless,
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At first I did feel that way. But as my engagement with reddit went down it felt like my life improved.

FreeBooteR69,
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My life has been enhanced actually. Some disruptions in life are good, they cause us to re-evaluate ourselves and our goals, and send us in directions we might never have anticipated. Honestly i'm excited for the future of the Fediverse and it's potential.

bionicjoey,

Reddit and RiF were always sort of a fixed point of stability in my life. Regardless of whatever else was going on, I could always pop open RiF and browse Reddit. It definitely feels like there’s a hole. But every day since I first signed up for Lemmy a month ago there have been more and more users and it’s started feeling more and more like it fills that hole.

nostalgia_for_infinity,

I think it is good and healthy to regularly go through changes that affect your daily life.

raktheundead,
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Nah, I was already on the way out of Reddit, so this just gave me an excuse to delete my account entirely.

cassetti,

I have a small business and about 20-30% of my traffic/sales came from Reddit. That's completely disappeared. I've seen a huge impact on my business already

greatwhitebuffalo41,

I can’t relate but damn that sucks I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

cassetti,

Yeah, Reddit has been pulling unsponsored ad content for the past year. I've been struggling with sales since I don't pay for advertising - all my business comes from word of mouth referrals. Same thing happened in 2018 when Youtube swept through and erased a bunch of content.

Fortunately I run a tight ship with minimal overhead so as long as I get some business weekly I can keep the 'doors' open. But damn it's been tough the past 14 months both with the recession and the changes to Reddit. But that's fine - the slow time gives me a chance to get back to what I enjoy - innovating cool new widgets for the market.

If you want to help us small businesses (all of us are struggling right now), just remember to leave an honest review or mention the business/brand online. A simple word of mouth referral is worth infinitely more than a paid advertisement.

tal,
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One of my conversations as this blew up was with some guy who sold WW2 memoriabilia and promoted his stuff on a small sub. He was kind of confused as to why the main WW2 sub had become inaccessible.

checks

It looks like it's restricted still, though not private.

Anyway, I imagine that there are other people in a similar boat.

cassetti,

Ouch. Yeah I still spend $0 in advertising. All my business comes from satisfied customers and word-of-mouth referrals (the way I believe it should be - I loath paid advertisements forced upon people). At one point I a few years back I was one of the top 500,000 websites in the world (Alexa verified).

I've taken multiple hits over the years when other platforms (like Youtube) swept through their content and eliminated unpaid "ads" as they see it. I have no clue what the future will hold, and extremely thankful that I have a few distribution partners helping keeping me afloat during these slow times. Maybe the federation's content will be logged by google and my site will regain it's popularity.

Best thing you can do to help us small businesses is to give a shout out wherever appropriate (not spam, naturally). Just remind people that XYZ business or brand exists is extremely beneficial and worth more than any paid advertising.

knoland,

No. Reddit had turned into doomscrolling for me instead of a place I enjoyed spending time. I would find myself feeling worse after having browsed reddit, not better.

Switching to KBin has totally changed that, it's more like a forum I go to see stuff and chat with people instead of a hellscape of depressing news and vitriol. I do not miss reddit in the slightest and I can live without the one or two communities there I actually participated in.

GophTheGreat,

I pretty much only engaged actively with niche videogame subreddits and absolutely zero of them have made the move over to kbin. I don't know if they'll ever pop up here unless there's another general exodus from reddit. Will the starcraft community move over? Barotrauma? Mechabellum? Monster Hunter?

And what about the niche dumb memey communities like DesirePaths, or toolgifs, or StupidDoveNests? Do those even have a chance of cropping up unless the mods over on reddit decide to unilaterally move their communities over?

I genuinely don't think so, so I'm a little lost right now.

tal, (edited )
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I don't know if they'll ever pop up here unless there's another general exodus from reddit. Will the starcraft community move over? Barotrauma? Mechabellum? Monster Hunter?

Monster Hunter isn't really niche. You're probably gonna see Monster Hunter communities already.

does a quick search

Try !MonsterHunter or !monsterhunter.

Kbin's auto-hotlinking is broken until the next release, as I understand it, but here are direct links that will work for kbin.social users like yourself:

https://kbin.social/m/MonsterHunter@readit.buzz

https://kbin.social/m/monsterhunter@lemmy.world

Ditto for Starcraft.

For now, I'd mention stuff without enough people to get a lot of traction on the larger gaming communities, and then bud off as the population increases. Or, y'know, start one and post content each day and wait for people to start straggling in.

greatwhitebuffalo41, (edited )

I saw a link for monster hunter when I was scrolling the new communities community on I believe lemmy.world?

Edit lemmy.world/c/newcommunities I’m pretty sure I saw it in there however, I don’t have a chance to look for it, my family just showed up lol

Bucket_of_Truth,

I feel more like we're experiencing a new epoch of the internet and society really. It's not just reddit changing it's API, it seems that everything is changing around us and reddit is just one facet of that. The pandemic ending, the rise of AI, new threats of war, fentanyl cheaper than soda, and unprecedented corporate greed are creating a world that we haven't seen before and it's strange for everyone.

Th4tGuyII,
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I actually kind of feel the opposite way. While Kbin is young, and will certainly be more optimised with time, it works more than well enough to satisfy my want to interact with the world the same way I would through Reddit - though interactions feel more personal. Just in this thread I recognise a couple of names of those I've chatted with before.

Additionally, moving to Kbin finally gave me a chance to do some spring-cleaning on my browsing habits. Where I used only stick to my subscribed feed on Reddit, I find myself much more on All on Kbin, exposing myself to more (though I do stay away from NSFW, unlike what I did on Reddit).

shadowbert,
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Honestly, yes. It's a pain.

But the good news is that, due to their sudden increase in popularity, they're likely to mature much more quickly than they would have otherwise.

roving6478,

It's been a huge pain because no single platform can't be a drop in replacement for Reddit.

oct2pus,
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I guess im just gonna help less people with their 3d printers now. I mostly want to keep up with arcade sticks and the subreddit didn't really seem to move unfortunately. So I'll still need to check back in every blue moon.

tal,
tal avatar

arcade sticks

Like, stuff like Happ Electronics stuff for arcade cabinets, or you mean more-broadly non-flightstick joysticks for modern computers? I mean, I've already seen people on here somewhere talking about their arcade cabinet builds, though they may not be so high-traffic yet as to need a dedicated community just for the sticks.

oct2pus,
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Fightsticks as in custom controllers for modern (or retro) systems that are often associated with the fighting game community but also used for schmups or other arcade associated titles (or even just games that use digital controls only). Its got a modestly active community on reddit for sharing builds and mods and just projects or discussing parts. I do all of this over discord as well so its nbd.

tal,
tal avatar

Ah, gotcha, yeah, like the Happ stuff. Yeah, lemme see if I can find what I saw.

searches

I think the first link, from earlier in the week, was what I remember.

https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming@lemmy.world/t/102721/Anyone-else-crazy-enough-to-build-their-own-retro-gaming-machine

https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming/t/11783/What-s-your-most-ludicrous-retrogaming-object

So, yeah, a little bit of chatter, but not much, and not specialized to the sticks.

tal,
tal avatar

Followup, 48 hours later:

Saw this, remembered your comment, thought I'd point you to this:

https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming/t/141059/Immortal-joystick-Kickstarter

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