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.
@ENEMYGUNSHIP. I’ve hardly touched reddit in several days. I’m thinking of keeping it for the random search I can’t seem to find answer elsewhere, but I am happy here, most of the topics I went to are starting to or have moved over here, so bye bye reddit.
Same, it’s hard not to use Reddit for searches.
I searched for recommendations for parking in a somewhat random area - and turns out there were five other posts with similar questions and about 6 clear cut comments from people who knew the area.
I won’t be active though - so good luck to them with new and interesting content. That’s where I’m here for now and it’s already giving the fix at a beginner stage in development.
if you’re using reddit for searches you don’t need an account, you also don’t need to give them traffic, just click on the cached version.
@metaStatic cached version?
You google search with insite:Reddit.com and use the 3 dots next to the link to open the cached version instead of clicking the link
It’s the first time I’ve posted in A YEAR AND A HALF that wasn’t immediately downvoted, literally within seconds - just like most of the posts and even comments regardless of content and occurring with super-human speed in our tiny gaming sub, which Reddit admins do nothing about despite me (a mod) complaining multiple times with obvious examples mentioning that I have literal screenshots of people asking to brigade it.
I was thinking of Reddit as being less toxic than our Discord server - and tbf it is that:-P - but I forgot what “friendly” and “welcoming” even was, b/c it had warped & twisted my mind, normalizing such behavior as if “nothing can be done”. But it can - I can leave!:-P
I’ve popped over to reddit a few times since this all started and the place is just a fucking black hole of anger and toxicity, every sub.
I don’t even care that there is growing pains here as the platform literally crawls out of the womb - kbin is an infinitely better community already.
best part: no spez, no censorship
It’s better than “no censorship”. It’s “whatever censorship you and your instance agree on”.
Don’t like the rules at beehaw? Cool, leave beehaw! Too many boobs in your “all” feed? Cool, block the domain or join an instance that doesn’t federate with them. It’s just SO much better this way for everybody.