On desktop, click "Settings > show top bar (on)" to get a navbar at the top of the page that lets you easily sort between the default home feed, magazines you are subscribed to, and a list of random magazines to check out :)
Oof. It feels like every new social media platform insists on replicating the mistakes of their predecessors. You'd think by now there would be an established body of design patterns for social media. This looks like it might be relevant, even though it's quite old now.
edit: it's also interesting that only downvotes count for "reputation points", so anyone who raises their heads above the parapet in a contentious thread is at risk of instantly having a negative reputation [edit 2: QED]. I have no idea what effect that will have though...
Unfortunately the whole voting and reputation system of any social media site needs to be very carefully managed with lots of attention to how bad actors could game it, and I agree it's certainly not something Ernest should be fiddling and tweaking with while growth is so crazy, but I foresee at least one massive overhaul of the system in the future. Thanks for the link, I'm having a look through it now.
Down to -3 now. It looks like it's a tally of downvotes on any posts and comments counted on their own. That seems to be a strange choice, and implies that the first rule of kbin must be never to argue with conspiracy theorists if you want to maintain your social credit rating.
That won’t happen. The high API prices are there to fleece the AI bros desperate for training data for their new models.
What might happen is that they might offer some limited concessions to some devs under some conditions for some period of time in the hope that this gets misreported as “Reddit says okay to devs” and the fuss dies down despite nothing having changed in the long run.
Or they could just charge all users the same amount. An amount that happens to be exactly what they want to charge this new groups of customers and is much more than anyone ever considered this data was worth until a few months back. Like they’re doing.
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....
Yeah, I feel like one of those always online people now constantly having to flip between screens and work out who’s replying to what where. It’s kinda fun to be part of the buzz right now but I’ll be very happy when it all settles down a bit.
Haha, yes there is a problem with a bunch of geeks excitedly telling new users about geeky stuff like that interoperability stuff that will genuinely not do anything for most of them today.
“Lemmy/kbin is a replacement for Reddit and it doesn’t matter which you choose right now!” is all newbies need to be told.
Sure the other features mean that some incredible functionality will be built in the future that we didn’t even know we wanted, but most people are only concerned about getting off Reddit right now.
Haha, yes there is a problem with a bunch of geeks excitedly telling new users about geeky stuff like that interoperability stuff that will genuinely not do anything for most of them today.
“Lemmy/kbin is a replacement for Reddit and it doesn’t matter which you choose right now!” is all newbies need to be told.
Sure the other features mean that some incredible functionality will be built in the future that we didn’t even know we wanted, but most people are only concerned about getting off Reddit right now.
Set up and moderate a community here. You’ll get to interact with lots of interesting people and always have some exciting new challenges waiting in your inbox, though of course the downside is that you might be overwhelmed with praise for your tireless efforts.
Another interesting quote from the same mod on tildes.net:
I know this is likely a symbolic gesture because I'm fairly confident reddit will just kick us out and bring the subreddit back up, but after being on the mod team for over a decade its going to be interesting to see how things even function if they decide to take that route.
Hey, once again, I welcome the newcomers. It's great to see new faces here :) It seems that we've managed to resolve the server issue. Unfortunately, I had to temporarily disable certain features, such as content auto-refresh. It will be restored at the beginning of next week after the infrastructure change, so you'll get to...
Thanks for the update, it’s very welcome as a new user!
Have you published anywhere a something like a vision statement or a roadmap that would help me understand how kbin differs from Lemmy and how those differences might will change in the future?
Have you ever done so? Because there are lots of reports on r/playerup (ironically) about people just not receiving the money. I’ve been told eBay is a good choice.
Handy UI tip for former Reddit users
On desktop, click "Settings > show top bar (on)" to get a navbar at the top of the page that lets you easily sort between the default home feed, magazines you are subscribed to, and a list of random magazines to check out :)
As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info....
Reddit r/all page right now - posting a screenshot here so you don’t have to open it
Multiple reddit alternatives
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....
Twitch stream of Reddit blackout status (www.twitch.tv)
Originally found through this link which now redirects to the twitch stream: reddark.untone.uk...
What is a low-cost, easy to start hobby?
As a favorite time waster site implodes, I’m sure many of us are in the market for a hobby.
In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)
Quote from the post:...
/kbin - Just Reddit Things update
Hey, once again, I welcome the newcomers. It's great to see new faces here :) It seems that we've managed to resolve the server issue. Unfortunately, I had to temporarily disable certain features, such as content auto-refresh. It will be restored at the beginning of next week after the infrastructure change, so you'll get to...
Fair to assume reddit is now limiting account deletion (www.reddit.com)
Now this is taking the piss