Does anyone else have multiple accounts while looking for new reddit alts? So far I've got accounts on Lemmy, kbin, and Squabbles and I've been lurking on Raddle, Sqwok, and Tildes from the outside....
Hopefully someone can create something like this for kbin instances. I would say all federated 'groups' but I'm currently not sure how that would work with things like Mastodon.
I imagine in the future, we'll etiher have better built-in discoverability or a site that includes the whole of whatever ends up being the biggest aggregator platforms.
They do indeed, but whether it's to do with Cloudflare screwing with federation, I'm doing something wrong (which is more than possible), or the communities straight up don't exist yet, I've found that you're better off going straight to a Lemmy instance to find a magazine than trying to find it via kbin itself, before this link of course.
I know you can do something like search for @gaming, but it would be nice if you could just search 'gaming' and see all other federated magazines. I believe you can only do said 'gaming' search and get results if someone else has already subscribed via that particular instance of kbin?
And you know for a fact there are already users waiting in the shadows, wringing their hands, that have been waiting for an "opportunity" to take over a big sub like this.
Dunno if this is better suited to the codeberg page, but is there any scope for including a 'favourited' tab on profiles? I've "upvoted" quite a few posts and comments, but notice I only have a history of things I've 'boosted'.
I understand that a boost is essentially an upvote, whereas a favourite is more like a 'like', but if that's the intended purpose, should we not have a history of favourited items? Especially given the term, if we're going back to when browser bookmarks literally used to be called favourites, it would be nice to see everything we've favourited.
I'm super torn on RetroAchievements. I think it's really, really cool, but after playing some PS1 classics, I kind of appreciate the simplicity of going "yep, my save file says 100%", and not worrying about some "hey, complete this Armored Core mission without killing a single enemy" achievement.
But maybe that says more about me and wanting to platinum every game I buy on PS5, hahaa.
Looking at the comments, it looks like a lot of people have missed that this is the TTRPG magazine, hahaa.
Currently playing a game based on Ironsworn (I believe, I've said this twice today, really should check with our DM), after a "mid-season break" of Monster of the Week. Both super enjoyable, and I highly recommend Monster of the Week to anyone looking to get started with TTRPGing, especially if you may have a group that can't always all meet up every Wednesday night every week. The episodic nature of the game means that, hey, you can't make the next session? No worries, we didn't end this session in the middle of a 3 session long fight with the big bad evil guy, the rest of the team can manage.
Always find myself playing some kind of combat-built 'punch first, ask questions later' character, no matter how different my intentions are at creation, hahaa. In our current game, I've tried to break out of that... and ended up becoming a 'shoot first, ask questions later' guy, hahaa.
Good luck! Was the first thing I DM'd too. Could have definitely gone smoother, hahaa. Fun little campaign though! If I had any advice, it'd be to prepare for the unexpected.. That is, have a rough outline of how to steer things back to the 'main' quest / couple of NPCs you can throw in if your players really, really decide that they want to ignore the plot hooks the book gives you.
There's nothing wrong with going off script, but it can be daunting for a first time DM, especially if your players are also learning the rules.
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I feel like the people who are most passionate about this issue are the ones that were most active in posting (quality content, not Facebook tier memes), and they're the ones most likely to move. Reddit can survive on a casual audience, but if the 'experts' ditch reddit, the content quality is going to nosedive further than it ever has, until it's basically TikTok with links.
I've seen a lot of talk of people nuking their accounts, which is both the best and worst thing they can do. Quality posts / comments disappear, and there's no one around to replace them. Lack of said knowledge then makes people look elsewhere, be that here or the other next big thing, whatever that may be. Yeah, yeah, everything's probably archived somewhere, but the days of 'search term site:reddit.com' may be going away, and I'm sure that drives a decent amount of traffic.
Edit to add: It's damn hot here, and I've basically talked around the point I was trying to make; I think reddit leadership is making stupid ass decisions, but I don't think they're stupid enough to call anyone they're driving away freeloaders. The site would be nothing without the people that contributed quality content for years, and these moves are only driving those people away, in turn killing the volume of new quality content. They may make money short term, but I can't personally see the site going another 18 years, not without it being a total husk of it's former self.
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
Like many, I started looking at alternatives due to the API debacle, especially when my favourite app (long live Sync), also announced its shutdown.
I'd already heard of Lemmy a while back, but didn't really look too much into the whole federation thing. Saw Kbin recommended, along with some detractors of Lemmy, but checked both out anyway. I was never big into Twitter / microblogging, but the fact that Kbin integrates it together with bigger long form posts is really cool, in my opinion, so I'm sticking it out here (never mind that we can interact with Lemmy instances anyway!)
As much as I almost want to see reddit fall at this point, despite being a 10+ year consumer of it, it probably won't be going away for the foreseeable. Even if the big subs all shutdown indefinitely, admins will just kick the current mod teams, put new people in place and leave it at that. There are enough casual users that they 1. don't care about the API changes / loss of third party apps and 2. just want to see the next funny video / gif / dad joke from the default subs that they'll continue making money on 1st party app ads, and spez will make almost as much dirty money from the IPO as he dreamed about.
Squabbles seems to have a lot of potential, but I dunno if it's too Twitter-like for my tastes.
That and there seemingly being no history of interactions, e.g. posts / comments you've liked, comments you've made, etc. along with quite difficult discovery, I'm not sure if it's for me (granted this could change in upcoming updates, I believe it's super new on the scene?)
reddit was cool because even if you didn't know exactly what you were looking for, if you go on X sub and check out top of this month or whatever, you were usually going to find some quality posts, whereas Squabbles so far feels a bit 'oops, you missed the most interesting post of the day, try again tomorrow'. Maybe I'm just looking at it wrong.
Exactly, even if I don't want to write short form posts myself, being able to take a nosey at a twitter style feed on top of more in-depth discussions is a really cool feature. If I was e.g. looking at /r/armoredcore for news on AC6, I probably wouldn't also jump on twitter and search for a hashtag, but here, if I'm already on the magazine, I'm way more likely to hit the microblog tab just to check out what's going on elsewhere.
To be fair, the Lemmy detractions mostly seemed to be based on political leanings, and whilst the vast majority of that userbase may not care about what the instance admins think, I got so, so sick of the 'team red team blue' rhetoric across the entirety of reddit that I'd sooner just not engage with something that's even got a whiff of potential politics based drama before it's even off the ground.
And like you say, we can interact with their communities either way, so that's really cool.
Yeah, if there's anything Fallout related I can only imagine it would be a brief mention of the next 76 season or something, I can't see them announcing Fallout 5 any time soon, as much as that disappoints me.
Looking forward to more info on Starfield, I'm really hoping it's good, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Yeah, the sense of weight in movement and turning does a lot to sell that you're piloting a mech, and not just playing a third person shooter with the player and NPC models scaled up. Hopefully that's retained in 6; judging by the gameplay we've seen so far, it looks like it will be to a certain extent.
... and growing to your community's old size will take a long time in my experience.
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, granted it depends on what sort of community / size we're talking, but even some of the more 'serious' subs on reddit for certain topics, e.g. /r/games over /r/gaming devolved into the 'haha, me make funny pun, ps. and my axe' crap. Not to say there isn't a time or a place for that, but from what I've experienced so far over here on kbin, discussions are actually discussions.
It's refreshing.
That, I can appreciate.
I would say you can hope that if you have a small, dedicated following like some of the 100-500 member subs did, they're dedicated enough to find the 'current' community, but I think that's potentially a downside that many have already discussed of the fediverse; Fracturing an already small community into even smaller 'sub'communities, if they even follow. Now you've got 10 instances of 10 members, and either activity dies, or they all congregate to one main instance and you kinda defeat the point of federation.
I'm very interested to see how this all turns out.
I think there's a place for things like AITA. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that's specifically here on kbin, but it's the fact that when any given sub reached critical mass, as you say, you can expect to jump in and see pretty much the exact same comments at the top of every highly rated post every damn time. The few days I've spent here, I've engaged way more than I have with reddit in the last 3 months, because stuff actually makes me want to get involved rather than just hide every comment an individual user ever makes in RES, haha.
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Basically the lefts equivalent of what most would refer to as the "alt-right", and one of the reasons I came to kbin over Lemmy; I can't be doing with political drama, and the tribalism most of reddit descended into.
Are you accessing federated content through Beehaw's Lemmy interface, or are you actually going to e.g.
kbin.social/m/chat/thread? I can't speak for how it looks on beehaw, but if I access a beehaw thread from kbin, the url shows you're accessing beehaw content via kbin, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/example@beehaw.org/thread
You can search for communities on other instances by searching e.g.
-@examplesub in your Beehaw search and you'll get results from, and be able to interact with, kbin posts on Beehaw.
The experimental build of Alpha 21 is due to be released on Monday and so the traditional streamer weekend is in full gear where you can preview it in advance....
I've played it for 48 minutes last year according to Steam, but I couldn't get over how janky everything felt... Like, I can deal with jank, but I dunno, something felt off. I think the sort of grid based, non-player buildings did some of that for me, and I'd not long played the Forest, which, while janky, felt a lot nicer than my first impression of 7 Days.
Yep... Managed to snag a PS5 at the back end of last year, and paid less for it than my now 5 year old 1080. Everything I've played on my PS5 is running at 4k (upscaled, fair enough), 60FPS, sometimes even with ray-tracing depending on the game. My 1080 can't do that, and given the insane prices of new GPUs, I'm not going to be upgrading any time soon, even if I am a PC gamer at heart.
All this said whilst I've been playing the PS1 Armored Core games, and have just moved on to the first PS2 entry... Yeah, I don't need a new GPU for that, but it would be... nice, ahaa.
A little. My reddit account's 9 years old, but I lurked for a while before that as well. The quality of the site dipped pretty drastically as time went on, bar the really small, passionate subs, but that was to be expected given the vast growth... I am upset that, like many, sticking a search into your engine of choice and sticking 'reddit' on the end might be a thing of the past, depending on how many people leave, because you could always find something actually worthwhile reading, and not some bullshit regurgitated article that had no clue what it was talkign about..
At the same time, a fresh start might be best for a lot of the communities.
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Does anyone else have multiple accounts while looking for new reddit alts? So far I've got accounts on Lemmy, kbin, and Squabbles and I've been lurking on Raddle, Sqwok, and Tildes from the outside....
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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.