Hello everyone that is trying out new platforms. I'm along side you trying a new place while I see how everything pans out over at Squabblr.co. If you want, share what your user name is over on Squabblr? What brings you here?
I'm not sure if I'm going to like this whole fediverse thing. But figured I'd give it a shot. I'm also trying out Discuit.
Same! Squabblr has been REALLY close to scratching the itch that I've been looking for in terms of social media experience. I'm interested to see what will be come of the site after today's announcement. I suspect it will continue on, but boy howdy must today be stressful for Jay.
I feel like Kbin tends more towards lurking at least when you are unfamiliar with it like me. I wont be posting much probably but it is nice to see some of you in a new community. Maybe we just need to make a Ex-Squabbles community on every social media site.
haha for real. I actually submitted a request to make a Squabblr community over at Discuit as well. We will see what happens. Would be cool to bring some of the community feeling from Squabblr if it does end up fizzling out.
Hey! Same username at Squabblr. I've been here, just not as active as at Squabblr. Not sure why Jayclees decided to kill the site with the updated TOS, but yeah. Weird stuff.
Hey! Good to see you here. This is my second time trying out this whole fediverse thing. The first time did not stick at all. How have you liked it here compared to Squabblr, Reddit, or Twitter?
I'm not a Twitter person. Compared to Squabblr, the fediverse seems to have a lot more content posted but a lot less interaction with the content. That's why I stuck with Squabblr. We'll see if an influx of us changes that dynamic some!
@BearlyEagle As someone who made several accounts on fediverse, I wouldn't praise it like everyone because there is problems that have long way to solve. I would say the experience you can have overall. First here https://fedidb.org/ so you can see what Fediverse consist of. You can interact with any server/service with big restrictions but you can. Like me posting from Mastodon to Kbin. Just know that you can always bail choose place you like or leave for another. Stick to where you like.
Second depending on Instances Federation/defederation but you can always talk to people from Instances you left, so there is no shame to go to other place because you found some friends beforehand. You can still interact with them from new place, but I read some stories where people had problems due friends being on different instances so it's not all rosy... It's better than what Reddit does though https://816am.ddns.net/post/6468 . You can setup your own fediverse server for yourself and friends!
So depending on your needs and what you can afford, you can join any service there are like Mastodon if you want raw twitter with # only search, Misskey if you want fun with Emoji and other feature bloat, Kbin and Lemmy for forum experience, Hubzilla for site constructor, there is forks for Masto,Misskey there is Akkoma, Pleroma... There is so much to explore, so finding best place can be hard that would have things you are interested and on service you like, but this is why fediverse get praise
One of the neat things about Kbin is that you can interact with Mastodon—that's what the whole microblog thing is. Boosts are the fediverse's retweets. Think of upvotes as "I like this thing" and boosts as "I want more people to see this thing."
Right now, boost functionality on Kbin is a bit limited. There's a section on your profile that shows the stuff you've boosted, and boosts also give 2 reputation points (upvotes give 1). Not sure if there are plans to flesh this out more in the future.
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