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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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 still use both, but I have found myself spending a lot more time on Lemmy than Kbin simply because QoL features are a bit better. For example, being able to expand images inline isntead of having to navigate to a new page or tab.
That analogy would work better if you add the caveat that one day Yahoo could get bored and block interaction with hotmail and now you'll need two accounts to talk to people on each
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.
There's a lot that needs to be perfected in terms of design, functionality, etc. But it's nice to be able to actually discuss topics with the toxicity that plagues Reddit.
I deleted my account the second day of the Blackout and haven't looked back. Lemmy and Kbin are way better.
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.
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 :)
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
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