hey! I went on reddit to invite people over here on a subreddit…
And asked if someone would be interested to create maintain a magazine/community that don’t exist here. I got shit over…
Thoughts?
links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IASIP/comments/14gbtkg/found_an_iasip_community_in_the_fediverse/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/14gayv6/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
one shared my post elsewhere to laugh at me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemassacreTruth/comments/14gcnmk/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
I don’t think proselytizing is necessary anymore; we’ve got enough folks on here now to get a sustainable community going, other people gradually finding their way over here over the next year or two (much as it happened with digg) is much better than a crazy server-destroying / spam-proliferating rush.
Reddit was perfectly enjoyable a decade ago with 10% as many users, we don’t need very many of them to be able to offer a worthy reddit replacement to anybody who seeks one. (plus I suspect within 6 months or so we’ll have way better apps than reddit does)
100%. the level of comments kbin are blowing my mind, actual discussion. debate. different perspectives. people writing full sentences and explaining their thoughts.
instead of people being banned and insulted for having a differing opinion. or being told they are mean and bad people.
the 3rd grader level of discourse on reddit didn’t exist 10+ years ago. it happened only after the site because a household name.
Maybe it’s silly, but i love that I haven’t seen a single one-word reply such as “*their”.
EDIT: omg, what about those infinite threads of “this” or forced puns? Haven’t seen those either (and I love bad puns, but those usually contributed very little)
I mostly agree, but I do think there’s a certain sense of collective accomplishment when you pull off a 37-deep comment thread with lines from a song or whatever.
Also: This was a triumph.
Could 100% tell it was going to hell the past while, knew it was mainstream for several years now, ever since I started hearing radio hosts talk about Reddit. However, a few months ago I was helping my mom with something, and I glanced at her phone to see Reddit open. That’s when I thought “Oh. Reddit’s over”.
Reading those comments in the threads OP posted reminded me how childish and toxic Reddit is. I haven’t touched Reddit since this whole thing began and I’ve really been enjoying my time here on kbin. People actually communicate here. Those threads are typical Reddit downvote dog piling bullshit. It’s so stark to me now after being away from it for awhile.
@polygon@kbin.social people have got used to the manipulative toxic mainstream social media and their ads and algorithms, that when they join fediverse or Thread inverse, they rediscover that none of that crap is really necessary and they were imposed on us so long ago that they felt normal. But they are not
It’s also a bit bothersome if you’re there. The people who stay are probably aware of the alternatives, but also don’t feel like moving, so people going over and trying to get them to join Kbin/Lemmy are the equivalent of people asking you to join the Church on the street. Having the alternate community on the sidebar, or if the sub shuts down is fine, but probably not a good idea to shove things into people’s faces.
You’re already aware that the Church exists, and the advertising is not going to make them want to join it any time soon. If anything quite the opposite, or it’ll make them want to cause trouble just out of spite.
All the polite people are already here, lol
I’m genuinely surprised at how well behaved people are. I’ve only run across a single case so far of somebody being deliberately annoying.
Your intentions are good, but to be fair to the reddit crowd, the way your post was written reads a lot like an advertisement. Trying to convince others like this is typically unproductive - people will just go to wherever the content is. It’s up to all of us to generate that content and give them a reason to migrate out of their comfort zone.
You should just start up a magazine yourself if you want one to exist, even if you’ve never moderated before. It’s not that big a deal at this early stage and if it grows big enough, you can always hand it off to someone else.
That’s what I did with St Louis Blues. There was no community here to I started one, asked for help and already have a second mod. We try to post1 or 2 news stories a day to start. Convo will happen when off-season really kicks in and then we will have pre-season and by then Lemmy/Kbin should be established.
As soon as I find someone with the passion for it I am transferring the community though, I have enough to mod lol
It seems like the only people left on reddit will be jerks and trolls which is fine by me. You are in the right place ignore the haters.
This comment says it all:
I don’t know what quite a lot of those words mean, and I don’t wish to learn.
Why would we want people like that over here?