Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here
The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking "what is that?" It won't be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there..
Absolutely, I'm not saying to spam anything. However, if every single post or comment with a fed url is deleted by automod, there should be a workaround
If every single post or comment with a fed url on a particular subreddit is being deleted by automod, then it's because the mods of the subreddit presumably set it that way, and their wishes should be respected. Not respecting the wishes of subreddit mods was exactly how reddit got itself into the mess it is now in.
I would love to pick one maybe two subreddits to focus on taking the top posts and just reposting them to the communities here, but I’m kinda waiting on community consolidation to get fixed so I don’t waste time posting to empty communities. Also if there was a Reddit to Lemmy post migration script or something to automate it that would be awesome
Hm. Generally, yes. I'm on kbin.social. tl;dr: Fantastic and excellent social media alternative, but as someone that's worked years in ITSec, I have some huge concerns.
Things I found surprising:
Registration was intuitive and easy.
There's already a huge volume of good content readily available without having to "find it" (I had imagined it being more like ""the dark web"", i.e. you have to know what site you're looking for
Voting transparency omg holy shit. I remember when Reddit introduced vote fuzzing and it was the dumbest thing. At least on kbin, who upvotes/downvotes something is publicly viewable. So rather than "let's fuzz the votes to throw off the bots", simply showing who voted allows you to easily find the troll downvoting everything or a flood of bots or so on. I imagine there's probably not much tooling around this yet, but there inevitably will be.
Things I've found confusing, concerning, or have questions about (feel free to point me in the direction of a good magazine or FAQ as well):
WTF is boost vs upvote?
Are usernames unique across the fediverse, or only across instances? (Is there anything preventing me from registering e.g. Cryst@kbin.social , then jumping on this thread and pretending to be you, or vice versa?)
What happens if an instance closes up shop? Is there any way to migrate everyone's data over to another instance?
What happens if I decide I hate kbin.social admins, or you decide you hate lemmy.ca admins - are either of us able to fairly seamlessly move our identities from one server to another? Or would it be "nope, create a new account and start over"?
On reddit, a lot of good things happen around flairing (users, posts). Does fediverse have an equivalent?
Sometimes as I'm browsing I find myself on a different server (I think) and the language of the GUI is entirely switched to Arabic or similar. I still haven't figured out how to fix that or even what's doing it.
I still need to set up my own instance and play with that too.
My understanding is that our user profiles are tied to an instance and you cannot transfer it. I saw a post saying it would be good tonhave a centralized user account you can sign into different instances with so you don’t have this issue. I think you could totally create a Cryst@kbin.social and pretend to be me. I guess that means there could be multiple users with the same user names. If you end up not liking your instance or it gets shit down I think you just move on.
I registered as Emotional_Series7814 on kbin.social. Then I saw a post recommending that we don’t all register on the main site but scatter to other instances—after all, the point is to _de_centralize. So I went to kbin.cafe, attempted to register as Emotional_Series7814, and succeeded.
Just out of curiosity. I've been banned from Reddit about 10 times now. I suspect, but it has never been confirmed, that it is because I am able to articulate various logical arguments against "transgenderism" and gender ideology in general.
Is kbin.social a place where I can speak freely or will I be banned here as well?
Still learning kbin, so I'm not sure how to create a thread. Just making a comment here so get a quick answer, if possible.
To make a thread, go to the community you wanna post on, then click Create a new article. It’s confusing I know haha but after I learned that, I haven’t had problems. They might change how that part is organized too to be more clear
I’m sure you can find a community that will be cool with you posting whatever you’d like.
That said, it’ll probably be a community filled with like-minded people, so don’t plan on converting many folks to your ideas. You’ll probably be surrounded by people who are likely to agree with your perspective anyway.
It depends on the moderators of the "magazine" (community) you are posting in. For example if you post your topic in my Pomeranians community, I might remove your post and give you the reasons for removal, but I probably won't ban you unless you go off topic repeatedly.
Another type of banning is called "instance ban". Instance bans are when a user is banned from an entire instance by the instance administrator. This means that the user can no longer access any of the communities or content on that instance. However, the user can still access other instances, unless they are also banned from those instances. Instance bans can be temporary or permanent, depending on the severity of the violation and the discretion of the administrator.
kbin.social instance administrators seem to be reasonable people. So I doubt that you would get banned if you follow the rules.
dw bro, we aint chasin off smart-talkin intellectuals like yerself
On the other hand, people who want to start inflammatory political/sociological arguments in places where they don't belong - like this thread - will find themselves facing a crowd of people with pitchforks, regardless of whether or not the person is well-spoken or the argument well-articulated.
I'm sure you were banned 10 times cause you "are able to articulate logical arguments against transgenderism" and not being a hateful annoying cunt. I tip my fedora to you. I think some better advice for you is stop obsessing over trans people to such a degree that your comments get you banned from a platform 10 times. But to answer your question there are some instances that will not ban you for that stuff, but most of the big ones are moderated and tend to be left leaning so you probably will be banned for transphobia.
I also strongly disagree with what this user says and I get your anger, but is it really necessary to be insulting? I feel like simply downvoting and otherwise ignoring it would be healthier for this community at large.
Let's not make this place like reddit or any bigger social network, please.
I don't think it's that serious. That person is transphobic so I can make fun of them. I don't really want transphobes to be comfortable saying things like that. They can create their own instance and be transphobic there.
I meant the tip fedora comment was the making fun of. I dont think annoying cunt that serious of an insult, just saying they must be annoying to be banned 10 times. But you're probably right that people like this are just looking to argue cause it probably gets boring circlejerking bigotry in a community that is full of bigots.
Yes, reddit bans people for hate speech. And why are you going to every sub and thread talking about this? It's almost like it's not just a casual conversation topic but you're actively spreading hate propaganda. Gee I wonder WHY you keep getting banned.
Maybe don't make political talking points from a hate group your entire personality.
I've been kind of suggesting the same thing a few times inside of posts. I'm coming at it from the perspective of having had to do a lot of in-person recruiting for voluntary activities, mentoring, and teaching -- you cannot tell people things like "you should just join lemmy/kbin" -- you have to wait for them to ask "how do I join lemmy/kbin?"
That's okay! It just means that the focus when introducing people to it has to be "here's what you're missing", positive about where they could go rather than negative about where they are.
It's an uphill battle trying to argue with people who do have a point about it being harder to use (we shouldn't gaslight people), but they're also saying what the audience is wanting to hear because it gives them permission to do nothing.
How many are just admin accounts or sock puppets for some agenda or another anyway?
Consider focusing on the positive -- link to specific posts on these systems that are objectively worth going to participate in. They don't need an account to read and enjoy.
Then, if they discover that they wish that they could participate in the thread -- that is the time to explain that they should just join whatever instance the post they really enjoyed was on for starters. They'll realize that they can see magazines from other instances, probably after a week when they realize other instance domain names are showing up on things. Then some nice person explains what's going on.
And now they've convinced themselves it's worth joining...
I agree with the idea but as someone pointed out, let’s not spam it. Also the idea works well to show that content is being generated and encourage on lemmy that would help new users join and engage
If anybody wants to share a link to kbin/Lemmy so people join, don't send the official Lemmy or Kbin page (or the official page of any federated platform) nor the link to any given server. Share instead links to the Join the fediverse wiki, fedeverse party, etc that have lists of servers and also have posts explaining anything a person needs to know to start an account on any decentralized platform/server.
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