It's up to us to make this work. Start subscribing to magazines that you're interested in. Post a few things. I truly believe we can make this the next reddit and a much better one at that.
I just need a good reader that allows me to view lemmy stuff and kbin stuff in a Reddit-like interface and I’m good. Been a redditor since 2010 or so, really sick over what they’ve become.
This one is already really similar to reddit at least, I long for the bar at the top that shows all the communities I'm subbed too, it's definitely possible the people running this one will make changes too
I managed to get a view that is pretty similar to that by hitting the hamburger menu on the upper left and clicking on the gear icon, then “Show Top Bar”. There were a ton of super useful settings there but it was pretty buried.
I found how to get the top bar to show similar how RES had it, but is there a way to have it only show subscribed mags or choose which ones I want to show? Right now it just shows random mags I'm not subbed to.
Click the thing between + and your username that looks like bullet points and text. A menu will appear. Click Subscribed and only the magazines you subscribed to will appear.
Especially since the whole site is based on the free work of the mods and the users submitting content. The whole thing is like a Ponzi scam where the users and the mods are the lowest tier in the scam and reddit's admins and all the sites that get traffic through reddit are at the top.
There were so many ways reddit's owners could have gone about this and actually made money while making the userbase happy and not antagonizing their free labor.
Reddit knows they’re only losing a small portion of their users. The users that are leaving, however, are the core users. They’re the moderators that keep the subreddits clean. The longtime users that have been providing quality content for 5+ years.
I think we’re going to see a drastic change in reddits content after this. I’ve already deleted my 11y account, but I’m going to keep an eye on the site over the next couple months (via old.reddit.com, of course) and see what happens.
I hope we’ll see websites like kbin grow and thrive. I already have confidence in the developers and maintainers, and so far the user base is amazing. Even though I have to use a web app on my iPhone, which does have some bugs, I’m already committed.
I would like to say, though, PLEASE provide feedback and suggestions for kbin. Let’s make this site what Reddit should have been. Let’s make it 1000% more appealing to would-be new Reddit users. We’ve all got this.
There isn't a native mobile app, but this website is what's known as a "progressive web application". This means that you can just add it directly to your home screen and it will act app-like. See this thread for exact iOS instructions. Android is similar but does depend on which browser you're using.
sometimes it's just labeled "Add to homescreen". not sure if it's a change on Kbin's end and whether it'll behave the same way or open in a regular tab, though.
yeah, I guess something's changed with Kbin's configuration over the past few days, then. I've still got the PWA "installed" and it shows separate from Firefox (you can see Firefox proper on the left side):
I'm currently using DuckDuckGo browser (Chromium based if I'm not mistaken) and it works fine. My guess is that Chrome and Fennec (Firefox) will do fine.
For Android: navigate to your kbin instance and press the hamburger menu (the 3 lines or dots in your browser) and there should be a command like "install to home screen". Choose that command and a shortcut will be placed on your homwscreen and in your app drawer. Opening this shortcut will take you directly to your kbin instance.
BTW, you can use this the create shortcuts to basically every webpage. I've got shortcuts to my favorite webshops (including product filters and all)
Hey, thanks! I know the "home screen" functionality and use it regularly. I asked because I use Fennec (Firefox mobile fork) primarily, but wanted to have one browser for kbin only, to keep it separate. I tried with Fennec and Bromite and felt it was a bit janky on Fennec and wasn't working properly on Bromite so just wanted to hear other people's thoughts and suggestions.
Imagine the blackout extending to more than two days.
While Reddit will absolutely fake their traffic numbers, claiming this is just brigading, we need to completely decouple from Reddit.
While it's regrettable that kbin.social doesn't have any mobile apps yet, I found that the browser version on my Android works pretty well. I loved using kbin.social on my android firefox browser.
Fuck Reddit. Fuck their monopolistic practices. Fuck anyone that tries these terrorist practices.
Next up - if Discord do something similarly boneheaded, we must have a Discord alternative. I'm already regretting paying them $30 for the Nitro basic version - it basically does nothing!
Why? If they do dumb shit it will be the same as Reddit, you'll have to migrate over. Just use Matrix to begin with, it's already federated and you can self-host. Promoting corporation-owned platforms is never the answer
Seems I'll need to go ahead of my group of friends on a few things again. Matrix and Element, prepare servers on there for if/when Discord does something boneheaded (basically the only thing that can get the majority of peeps I know to migrate)
Discord already implemented the username update which was pretty stupid but I don't see any organised pushback from users. I've tried to get my group onto element instead but it's near impossible.
The shit is already hitting the fan at discord, with their useless username changes being the most recent thing no one asked for. They also have an API which tons of 3rd party apps and bots rely on. It's only a matter of time before they pull a reddit.
I know there's some talk of making this a monthly thing until change happens. No clue if that'll pick up traction or make a difference, but it's good to see.
Luckily, there are Discord alternatives that exist. A lot of them actually, I think a lot of them are open sourced. I know there's Matrix and Revolt (I quite like Revolt a lot, so I hope that goes somewhere). They do lack some things (I think screensharing being the biggest?) but they capture the essence of discord. Will they take off hard? Who knows. I'd like Revolt to a lot, it just feels nice to use.
Guilded and Revolt are my top 2 discord alternatives. Guilded is proprietary and was bought by Roblox, Revolt is open source. I haven’t fully tried Revolt but it looks promising. Guilded has many nitro features for free and extra features that discord doesn’t have. Only thing holding it back IMO is a lack of a large user base and the fact the people are so opposed to change. My friends actually laughed at me and called it a discord knockoff when I tried to get the server to move
won't they get in a shitton of trouble for that with the SEC if they try to IPO with fake usage numbers? or maybe it will just be numbers that are technically correct but lack serious context, like the "impressions" on twitter videos.
Chat as a social platform felt like such a low bar for me. Discord itself is such a violent collection of colours and features, just an overall unenjoyable experience. It's also just ICQ, as Slack was IIRC.
I'm going to sound old and yell at the clouds right, so look away if you wish, sound but they did just monetized two communication methods that already existed, were free, but not branded for the masses.
Never saw the appeal of Discord. It's just a bloated chat. On top of that it is incredibly annoying. Their Linux client is hot garbage and they constantly ask for me to manually input my password again, which means I constantly have to dig into my password manager since it is a very complex one (and IIRC it had to be a complex one too). It also just annoys me that everyone and their grandmother has their own discord channel and thinks they have to advertise it every time. This just makes me want to use it even less.
I’ve been really impressed so far. Even through a web app the experience has been good so far. (Slow, to be expected with the unexpected strain on servers. I’m hoping more servers spin up as it gets more popular.)
honestly, i see this as a good thing. if reddit had walked back the changes, they would just find other more subtle ways to be greedy and hurt people down the line. it's dead! we're moving on to more ethical and truly free platforms.
Well seems Greedy little Pigboy Steve huffman has got exactly the same Spirt as his fellow Redditors when it comes to the Strike, just means we'll have to continue forward and follow through to, The main effort current moderators should start working on is to help migrate as many people as possible to services like kbin and Lemmy, also to people who are Reddit mods, here's a tip: Make an Example of all the people saying that, Protests are stupid, aren't going to work, are a waste of time, you're gonna come crawling back etc. Ban them permenantly from your communities and call them out (in a mod-distinguished reply to their infringing message) as the trolls and scabs they are and show that this behavior isn't rewarded with status, dignity, or reputation.
Accidentally visited once out of force of habit. Honestly, visiting just once and reading one thread before realizing isn't half bad for something that was a daily, constant habit
What a stupid take. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable”. What if, I don't know, maybe... make the official app actually good so it becomes a viable competitor to the most used 3P apps? Then they would make money just like them, but no, they don't want fair competition, they want the whole cake. I really hope reddit dies.
Or have a fair price on their API. There were many things they could've done and still be profitable, but they decided to nuke everything. After they also lied about Christian, I too hope Reddit burns.
Anyone else around that was originally a Digg user? No matter how huge these sites get they can still implode from dumb decisions like Reddit is now making, even if it might not be overnight.
I do love the idea that this might finally push us into something more decentralised and not onto yet another huge centralised corporation site.
I was a Digg guy back in the day that fled for Reddit. This feels the same, however during the Digg meltdown we were fortunate that Reddit came around at the right time and was ready to take over for Digg with very little barrier to entry since it was familiar
Nothing really exists like that at the moment to take over from Reddit. There are things that are close but nothing like Reddit was to Digg.
I don’t love the fact that they discuss the blackmail allegation and then leave out the fact that Christian had a recording to disprove this. I’m glad they said he disputed it, but when there are tapes… you should probably say there are tapes.
behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally
Not sure if this is just spez talking about himself, not the Apollo dev. I also love that it also then adds like a "how dare they release the tapes proving me wrong". Maybe they wouldn't have to if you didn't try to pull this shit. Honestly it does sound bad in the recording with the contextual areas removed, but with full context you can see a point was trying to be made via a hypothetical about how if reddit truly believes these API prices are reasonable, such an "investment" by reddit would be considered a financial win for them. But its not, because the API prices are unreasonable and they know it. And spez fully apologizes in the call for misunderstanding, yet ignores that when he brings it up later. Scummy.
And I will stick to migrate away from Reddit then. Not that I truly believed anything would change. If anything they'd backpedal to just try it another time again.
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