This wild banning of subreddits that promote alternatives to reddit is likely to push a lot of people to leave who may have been on the fence about staying on reddit
If you haven't done it, go back and delete your posts and comments. Reddit needs your content, without its users providing content and moderation Reddit is done.
Is there any way of downloading / exporting my comments? I know it sounds daft, but there's some of my early posts about personal stuff that I'd like to keep. I couldn't find anything in my account settings (first time I'd logged on to the actual website in a long time ha)
That's already happening. People are mentioning kbin, lemmy, and tildes pretty regularly. A few others have tossed their sites in as well. It's going to get passed around one way or another.
does anyone know what information the guide contained? all I did when I signed up was click "Register" and create an account. is there anything I'm missing out on, or extra steps that I should take?
So far what I've done apart from registering is subscribing to the large communities on Lemmy that I'm interested in, you can find them here https://lemmy.ml/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
For example you can subscribe these communities just by searching them on kbin like this @gaming@beehaw.org.
However it seems like the kbin feed is already doing a good job at showing popular lemmy communities.
From what I remember, I don’t think there were any extra steps besides registering. The guide did go into detail explaining what kbin.social is for those looking for alternatives for reddit.
me too. had been a user since 2007, nuked everything and deleted! fuck em. RiF's fate is sealed and old.reddit.com is/will be next, no sense in sticking around for the inevitable. really loving kbin, it's been a very easy transition for me. once the smaller communities get moved over, it'll get even better. fwiw, i haven't subscribed to a default subreddit in years, utter trash content... so not missing anything anyway.
But seriously, I feel like it’s just folks who have been on Reddit for ages that really care about this, those of us who likely switched to an app like Apollo after the Reddit redesign. I can’t handle the ‘new’ look and feel, nor can I handle the official app.
I suspect folks who began using Reddit apres the redesign don’t know/don’t care and will continue on.
For how much influence bots have on reddit. I figured old accounts would have some value. Apparently a 13 year old account with 1k karma is only about $20. I'm sure for most people, unless they used a complete throwaway email, it's not worth it to sell and just delete to move on from Reddit
@BreadDog Myself and @moar_salt created r/kbin and it hasn't been banned yet. Check it out and spread the word! I deleted my moderator account to it but can assist where needed.
AFAIK, kbin uses a different url scheme so Mlem might not be set up to handle that. The alternative I’ve seen suggested is to use kbin’s progressive web app (PWA) and install it as a pseudo-app. It works well enough for now. I do hope more native can exist in the future.
Kbin doesn't have a Lemmy compatible API, though it's something the lead dev (and the Lemmy devs) have been discussing. But the instances can federate to each other beautifully.
For now your best bet would be using kbin as a PWA, which works great in my experience.
How did I not know about this? I've been using a shortcut that opens the URL in my phone browser, which is way less elegant. Works fabulously, thanks!!
I mean it's easier to develop new features when you're using a language like PHP. I love Rust but it's going to be laughable at how slow they will move new features out compared to other platforms unless they can get a ton of more developer volunteer support (and way less people know Rust to begin with).
I think it might serve it's own niche. I heard the microblog tab makes it a bit nicer to see content from mastodon users that someone is following. so it could develop to be like a hybrid lemmy/mastodon type of tool. But I haven't read too much into what kbin is aiming to be
Honestly, I joined lemmy.ml first before really taking a look at the ideals of most of that userbase and I just do not agree with a large part of what they identify with.
Bounced around to a few other instances that all seemed... Idk not the right fit. But kbin so far seems much more my style and I finally now got an account created so we'll see how it goes.
I'm curious what has turned you off here, since I'm very new. Reddit's weirdly right wing political tilt has been turning me off for some time now, hoping that's not the case here.
Also new, and I'm with you- reddit was always too full of right wingers for my liking. I also like this instance (lemmy.ml)and it seems to have a more left tilt, specifically when it comes to bigotry.
Serious question: Since it's a federated system that is open-source, what do their political views have to do with supporting the platform? Even if they decide to become Neo-Nazis and change it, the rest of use can continue to use the work they've made thus far and keep it like it is or improve on it. Our use of it doesn't support their political aspirations either aside from their beliefs in federated social media.
They have the censorship hard coded in. Why mess with a compromised platform when there are better alternatives available that don't include censorship and human rights violations?
I'm not that tech savvy...so please be patient. From what I can tell, the slurs are the only things that hard-coded in. Am I missing something else?
Does hard-coded mean it cannot be changed even though it's FOSS? According to that conversation, they seem a bit concerned that the tables with the slurs can be easily removed.
I'm okay with slurs being blocked, but I guess it would depend on how they define the slurs and all that. Also, maybe it would be a better idea to remove the slur protection from the actual Fediverse and let instances apply their own version, but at the same time, I see benefit to blocking it universally. It's not something that's clearly black-and-white to me.
I guess that aside from their personal political views regarding marxism-leninism (I'm assuming that's what 'ml' stand for), I'm confused as to how that practically affects the Fediverse. For what it's worth, I tend to subscribe to anarcho-socialism, so while I have overlap with marxism-leninism, I'm vehemently opposed to any authoritarian/bureaucratic centralized control of an economy. Which means that I also don't agree with their application of marxism. However, I see that as irrelevant to the Fediverse, and as far as I can tell, the Fediverse is quite decentralized anyway.
Must be traumatic to have your worldview questioned for the first time. They've been fed anti-communists propaganda from birth and are now trying to avert their eyes, lol. Reminds me of evangelicals when they encounter "satanic" media.
This wave of Anglo nationalists hating communists and Lemmy is very self revealing. Anyone who does this is a huge red flag and should be immediately treated by non Anglo people as someone who will always hate you. And never consider them unless their views get corrected.
Kbin is nice. It’s easy to register on kbin.social so might as well check it out, although they are possibly under DDOS attack right now. I’m on there and lemmy at the moment.
Both systems are very similar and are compatible. You can follow lemmy from kbin and vice versa. Lemmy is probably more mature, but kbin is also pretty slick and seems to be moving fast. The community on kbin.social is fairly large so you will likely find more interaction on there without having to subscribe to federated servers. That probably makes onboarding a little easier for reddit refugees. They also have a microblog feature that works like Mastodon (federated twitter alternative) so you get to use lemmy-like and mastodon-like in one app and federate with both.
The fact that kbin is written in PHP shouldn’t put anybody off. Modern PHP isn’t the same as the old stuff that earned a bad reputation. I haven’t used PHP for a long time, but my understanding is it’s now a solid stack that’s on par with other mainstream stacks.
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