Kbin reminds me so much of what I loved about Reddit when I first joined 14 years ago. Is anyone else struck by the complete lack of ads on any of these instances? It’s crazy how quickly almost everything loads.
Yes!! And the active non-toxic community.
There are UI improvements to be made and general coordination and understanding of the fediverse (eg. discovering communities, duplicate communities, etc), but we will get there.
And the active non-toxic community.
Most of the users have some organs which, when consumed in sufficient quantities, are considered toxic. The key is to eat the users in moderation.
But I only tried moderation for the first time this week! Don’t eat me! Go eat the moderators over on Reddit, that’s what they do over there.
I think this is an important consideration. What should be done different to mitigate toxicity?
Honestly it’s exciting to be able to ask these sorts of questions and potentially be able to act on it. I’m inclined to say:
- There’s an optimal size to subreddits. Small subreddits can be toxic, large ones are unless they have ultra strict moderation (so basically askhistorians).
- Massed users from other subreddits can easily overwhelm and torpedo communities, even ones larger than themselves if coordinated enough.
- There aren’t any sort of feedback mechanisms or checks on moderators.
Honestly, it has been a breath of fresh air. Lack of trolling, and no bots, it is old reddit.
Struck
I honestly don’t know how anyone functions with baseline internet jamming ads down their throat every other second.
if you’re raw dogging the internet this place is probably the most amazing thing ever but for me it’s what the internet has always been.
if I’m seeing ads anywhere something has gone very wrong somewhere.
Install Ublock Origin.
Kbin/Lemmy and Mastodon remind me of Reddit and Twitter back when the communities on the platform felt more like, well, communities. I don’t think Kbin is quite at the critical mass yet (and personally I don’t like either Kbin or Lemmy’s UIs, while I do love Ivory for Mastodon), but I’m actually really enjoying the platform. Hopefully it continues to grow organically.