Nope. I did some research. I know which ones to avoid. This one and Beehaw have been pretty smooth sailing so far and I'm not planning to visit other instances for now.
I always thought it was a pretty smart idea on Reddit's side to have the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by their author, saving them the tough choice between playing fair or boosting their initial reach a little; and if you had particularly low self-esteem, this enabled you to reduce your own points by not one, but...
I've made a poll so we can decide. We could then add the most popular suggestion to the Codeberg repo. I'm personally leaning towards no self upvoting.
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
Now, onto the bad news. I messed up. The workload overwhelmed me, and I couldn't read all your messages. I will diligently work my way through them, but I need time.
That is not a mess up, man! Like you said, you're overwhelmed. Your small project has now been flooded with thousands of users wanting to find a Reddit alternative. You're only one dude. There's only so much you can do.
IMO you're doing a great job so far. Do what you can. I'm happy to be patient and see how this place grows naturally over time. It's exciting to be a part of. We're with you. I'll be donating shortly.
I'm here to stay. Even if Reddit reverse their API decision, they've made it abundantly clear their first priority is pleasing their shareholders. I don't want to use a platform that so blatantly ignores the wills of the community that caused it's popularity in the first place. It's a shame they've decided to die on the hill of temporarily pumping their potential IPO value via the API at the cost of what made Reddit special in the first place. They've already disintegrated the trust of a lot of hardcore Reddit users like myself overnight. It'll never be the same now they've shown how they really value their users.
At the same time, I'm really excited to see how the various alternative platforms develop. Spending time away from Reddit has made me realise its sheer size can be quite overwhelming and there were a lot of subreddits I followed that were more doom scrolling wastes of time. Going to these other, smaller platforms is taking me back to earlier Internet days in a good way where it feels like you're part of an engaged community rather than a nameless voice among hundreds of thousands. I've been finding the quality of discussion here refreshingly high and respectful so far.
It's honestly exciting being at the start of what feels like a new social media wave. I can't remember the last time a major social media platform went the way of the dodo and people had to start migrating to replacements. I'm finding it really enjoyable being on ground zero. Whatever platform ends up being the most popular, it's a pleasure to be talking with you all whilst we figure it out. :)
Inevitable. He didn't write a lot, but you know someone's writing is special when most of their output is commonly talked about in all-time greatest American literature discussions. Rest in Power.
I guess this is the new Reddit! Time to kick our feet up.
I expected as much. 2 days is a pitiful protest length. I will not be using Reddit any longer whilst keeping an eye on updates from here and other news sites. I'm hoping this memo encourages all subreddits to protest idnefinitely until this assclown of a CEO is willing to negotiate lower API prices. And if he's not, onto greener pastures. And watching /r/wallstreetbets figure out a way to destroy their IPO when it eventually launches.
I'm absolutely loving how thoroughly The Verge is covering this story. No other tech news site seems to be updating this situation so frequently and with such a supportive tone.
I got on Beehaw no problem... I guess read their philosophy a bit carefully and think about what you actually want to contribute there?
I've only made a few comments so far, but whenever I have, I've gotten a helluva lot of upvotes and often insightful, engaging, thoughtful replies. It seems to be a really good place for positive, in-depth discussion. Beehaw comments tend to be paragraphs, here's its more a few sentences a la Reddit.
I think Kbin's got a solid foundation feature-wise, but so far the discussion depth on Beehaw feels deeper. At the same time kbin feels a bit more alive whereas Beehaw's pace feels a bit more gentle.
Let's see how things play out over the next month.
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
Calling people names for not joining a protest is polite?
Please don't start behaving like 4channers doing a raid. We're better than that. Reddit are in the wrong, but DMing subreddit mods "join our protest" and calling them names before they can reply is definitely harassment-like behaviour. Don't do that. It doesn't help the cause, it just makes us look petty and immature.
It's obvious certain major subeddits are being ran by Reddit staff or staff associates, so of course they're going to avoid a protest critical of their CEO out of fear and self-preservation. There is no point trying to convince the already decided.
If you want to convince anyone, message the smaller subs that seem like they won't be easily influenced by Reddit administrators. Give them detailed information. Whenever it comes to any kind of protest, communicating your issues respectfully is important or the other side won't listen to your points. This protest will lose respect quickly if we start behaving like angry trolls.
I do understand the meaning of scab in the context of protesting, but it still comes off as a pretty antagonistic term in tone to me. If I was walking around IRL, walked past a protest I didn't know much about and got called that or any name, personally I would immediately feel uncomfortable. I would be uneasy engaging with someone who sees me as a threat or the enemy. Labelling people scabs (also defined as an unsightly skin growth) implies that and isn't the right starting point for any debate.
Plus in this particular case, we're protesting new policies we disagree with on a website. Are non-protestors stealing our precious jobs as... Unpaid Redditors? Are they personally responsible for the API problems?
Tone is important. Educate and engage first if we want to actually win over people rather than reflexively call them scabs.
Yeah I agree with you. It isn't that serious at all. It sounds like I'm wildly offended from my reply, but I'm not. I just like to be careful with my words and I can understand why someone would percieve that as harassment. People are sensitive. Better to just not throw words about even if you think it's not that bad in case someone else does.
Hey everyone, super excited to be exploring the fediverse both here on kbin and elsewhere. Looking for a Mastodon client primarily for iOS, great to see the main app is open-source, but there seems to be quite a few options out there. Feel free to share non-iOS clients for others' benefit as well....
Have encountered racism, hate speech or homophobia on the fediverse yet?
If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash
How do you feel about people upvoting their own posts?
I always thought it was a pretty smart idea on Reddit's side to have the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by their author, saving them the tough choice between playing fair or boosting their initial reach a little; and if you had particularly low self-esteem, this enabled you to reduce your own points by not one, but...
/kbin - a few quick announcements
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse?
I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here....
Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89 (www.theguardian.com)
Author of The Road and No Country For Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (www.theverge.com)
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period....
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted (www.theverge.com)
Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.
The Migration seems to be going well! 125k on kbin.social instance alone, and over 100k across Lemmy!
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy...
My biggest problem with kbin
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
Sent a polite message to the r/askreddit mods. Got a warning for bullying and harassment 4 hours later.
What is your favorite Mastodon client?
Hey everyone, super excited to be exploring the fediverse both here on kbin and elsewhere. Looking for a Mastodon client primarily for iOS, great to see the main app is open-source, but there seems to be quite a few options out there. Feel free to share non-iOS clients for others' benefit as well....
People from Reddit or redditors, people from Boston are Bostonians, people from Canada are Canadian. What should the people of this site use for a demonym?
I've seen keebinetters, but that feels like trying to say Massachusettsian instead of Bay Stater....