Roundcat

The Whole Fediverse is Wholesome [fixed]

The state of the internet 2023

I like the interface, and have been a user of the reddit version for years...

Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta?

I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later....

Lemmy has a severe calcium deficiency!

Huh, this looks like a popular post. Imma check the comments and...

Let's say the worst case scenario happens with kbin and Meta. What are some alternate sites/instances that would be more resilient to enshitification?

I'm getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech....

Post a meme on lemmy, upvote on kbin, boost on mastodon, comment on firefish, feature on pixelfed, reply to a comment on...

Ya'll do realize you can customize what you can/can't see on kbin/lemmy, and your experience is about about how you make it right?

I've just seen a lot of post recently complaining what they see on their front pages such as news, politics, endless memes, etc. But you do know if any of those subs bother you or seem excessive, you can filter the subs so that they don't appear on your front page anymore. Filter memes and 196, and about 70 percent of the memes...

When you encounter your own posts on other parts of the fediverse.

There's nothing wrong with using Reddit, Twitter, and other mainstream site still while being active on fediverse.

I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there's nothing wrong with that...

You can take the redditor out of reddit but...

I have insomnia, work in Japan, and most of ya'll are active when I should be sleeping.

Seriously though, happy for all the hackermans that get a kick out of them.

Woke up to a destroyed inbox and full of regret

What is your "Chicken soup" game?

In essence, what game do you play when you are feeling down, under the weather, or depressed, and what does it do for you?...

It's a beautiful game with amazing music and gameplay like 2D Zelda. I still think about it a lot.

I have a good Xcuse I swear!

Testing: If you can see this post, tell me how your day is going.

This is a test to see if threads on this mag are visible to Mastodon. If you see this, what's up? How are you holding up?

In light of the recent Twitter rebranding

I really do love this site, but sometimes it feels like its held together with duct tape and good vibes. (imgflip.com)

I'm literally having to work around kbin's errors to post from this account.

Sonic CD Stardust Speedway Present JP/EU (www.youtube.com)

Both of Sonic CD's OSTs are criminally underrated. here's my favorite from the Japanese OST.

Roundcat, 9 months ago to fediverse

Btw, this is me testing the limits of kbin's microblog feature, so the following post will be long. I will post a TLDR at the end.

It has been nearly a month since I've first joined #fediverse. Even before the #reddit exodus, I was already growing tired of the site for the fact that despite how large the communities were, they were very cold and impersonal. There was also the fact that for the #queer community at least, we had been siloed off from the rest of reddit, because nearly every topic involving #LGBTQ issues were very often met with hostility by a good amount of users, often followed by a locked topic. It was even getting to the point where I didn't even feel safe in the some of the more socially liberal spaces.

The fact that mods were being stripped of some of the few tools they had to keep their communities hospitable, I knew the writing was on the wall. I tried many reddit alternatives during the blackout, including #raddle and #tildes. But once I figured out how #kbin, #mastodon, and #lemmy worked, I found myself feeling right at home on the fediverse.

I think the main reason why is because many of the people here are misfits from other platforms. Many of the users on mastodon are former twitter users who were driven off by the corporate culture of twitter, and later by Elon Musk and the poisoning of the platform. Others are former redditors like me who found platforms like lemmy, and are in the midst of trying to rebuild the community they once had on thier former platform.

Fediverse definitely doesn't feel "mainstream" like the sites that many of us come from , but perhaps that is part of the appeal, and why I have taken to it far quicker than any other social platform I have tried in the past. I'm just hoping as the fediverse continues to grow and attract new users, that it doesn't lose it's quirky and experimental spirit.

TLDR: I like fediverse. It's weird, quirky, and I feel more open here than I was ever able to be on reddit. Don't ever change.

Roundcat, 10 months ago to fediverse

First post on kbin. Sorry if this ends up somewhere it shouldn't. Still figuring things out.

I don't think I'm ready to leave reddit completely, but I don't want to stay there. My compromise has been to bookmark niche subs that still don't have an active equivalent on fediverse or elsewhere. At the very least, I don't have to settle for the insufferable communities on reddit when better communities exist here. So long r/nintendo, r/pokemon.

I find myself doing far less doomscrolling on one site now, and more popping into different places on different sites like I used to pre social media hubs. I might visit my hometowns sub or r/ADHD on reddit, read about current events or gaming news here, and pop into tildes for pleasant conversation. All in all, if there is one positive thing the reddit enshitening has caused, its for the web to feel less centralized and a little more like 2008's internet.

and I can only hope this trend continues.

Kinda miss it being automatic on reddit tho