Reddit Migration

“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:

Q: So you’re saying that Apollo, RIF, Sync, they don’t add value to Reddit?

A: Not as much as they take. No way.

Does anyone know how you go about making a new post in a magazine here on kbin? (Sorry for the dumb noob question, mods, please move / delete this if this isn't the right place for this!)

#RedditMigration

This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.

We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.

Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻

Are there any communities you've not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?

Edit: So a lot of people don't know this, you can search for magazines on kbin here - https://kbin.social/magazines

I know all the #fediverse can work together and talk to each other, but inasmuch as it matters, I'm rooting for #kbin to come out on top of the #RedditMigration. I really like the blend of the thread interface for more formal, large-scale engagement threads, with the microblogging tab for more casual posts. It just makes sense to put them together. This is neat.

Edit: I wonder if people are having trouble viewing replies on others' posts? I've gotten so many that restate the same idea.

#RedditMigration

“We are not... unilaterally reopening communities.”

The first link was through MSN, my bad. Here's the link directly from The Verge.

Reddit is pledging that it will respect the protest.

It’s almost like he wants to piss people off. Calling moderators running his site for free and upset ally what’s happening “landed gentry”?!

Thousands of subreddits are still dark.

If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them.

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Is there an equivalent to r/all on kbin? I am enjoying the site but I am not finding a way to satisfy my urge to doom scroll aimlessly.

#RedditMigration

The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.

I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.

There are posts/comments over on r/redditalternatives about users using shreddit or other services to delete all of their posts/comments, only to find out they've been readded a day or so later.

I have not gone through this process yet (though I intend to - I just want to be sure all the posts I've "saved" will be saved also, not just the post/comment history - I bookmarked a lot of interesting stuff!), So I can't speak to personal experience. Not sure if it's due to the users deleting the content but not their account, or if the admins really are going in and just adding all the stuff back in so to not lose the content and searchability.

Just a note to check on your content that you wiped to make sure it's gone. There are multiple anecdotes of people erasing their data 3x and it keeps coming back.

Edit: examples in this post

That Reddit will not shut down. It will take the hit and go on and probably make at least some money. Only, it will be a much different place, more like Facebook or Instagram, in that it will be full of ads and less specific information.
It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public.

In short: we, aka the people who migrated, simply are not their intended target anymore.

On the subject, I found @gonzo0815 's post very interesting and more detailed than my summary😅 (link https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185/A-few-thoughts-about-the-blackout-and-the-future-development)

Let's not poison ourself, thinking on "how to make them pay". Let's move on, and enjoy the new internet spaces we are building!

Users are facing down the web forum's IPO plans, but Big Tech's attract-and-extract cycle can't be stopped.

The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].

This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.

Glad to have found a new place to hang out!

Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up

[1] https://reddark.untone.uk/

[2] https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Reddit-Blackout-dauert-an-30-Prozent-weniger-Aktivitaet-Werbebranche-wartet-ab-9189048.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Pulling as many punches as he usually does….

If you're anything like me you had certain tabs to certain sub-reddits open almost constantly. I myself had../r/all up on almost any browser that wasn't work related followed by at least 2 or 3 that I would just leave up constantly and periodically check.

With the move over to kbin I'm forcing myself to avoid Reddit as much as possible (Google searches make that really difficult) and adapting to the lower (though growing!) stream of content that I'm used to taking in... But it's still felt...off? I un-installed BaconReader already and work very hard not to let my fingers default to whichever /r/ I'm thinking of at the moment and I'm succeeding but it's still felt off. Felt wrong. Something wasn't right.

I just re-created my tabs with kbin magazines. At least two are almost entirely empty but ... it doesn't matter? Like - just having them up soothes some part of me that was /really/ uncomfortable and it's not like the subreddits themselves even always had great content to be updated with whenever I refreshed them... They were just the "default communities" that I always wanted to keep an eye on.

And again.. Maybe it's just me but honestly /just having those tabs open helps so much/ like I have so much less desire to check in with reddit now because I see the things that I care about and have multiple tabs open for it - even if they need to grow.

And it's also making me post in them to hopefully help start that process.

So if you're feeling anything like I was, agitated and off and like something was "missing" - make your kbin tabs match your reddit tabs, even if they're empty. 'cause it made such a difference and I feel so much better now.

~~dunno if this is the right place here, but is there a way to subscribe to magazines? using kbin mobile site on firefox~~

nvm, you just have to kind of scroll to the right

#RedditMigration

The whole reddit situation has been quite the storm, certainly for people fed up and looking for an excuse to move on.

Reddit was in the fortunate position that it started out What You See Is What You Get -- Compare new reddit to old reddit. Click link of interest, get content. These Fediverse instances harken back to that, and I am happy for it. The spread out nature of the fediverse however is a pro and a con. Information and content will be less accessible and more difficult to interact with, but at least it is not _in_accessible instantly if a storm brews - unless folks decide to defederate.

However, another positive for Reddit has been its name: it rolls off the tongue, it is memorable enough, and accessible/understandable to people not tech-savvy.

In this regard, Lemmy (in my opinion) has a foot in the door opposed to KBIN. What does KBIN stand for? How am I going to convince fellow enthusiasts to 'kbin' something? Lemmy just feels like more of a verbal substitute.

Having spent some time waiting for the nice folks to gather in the correct place, I'm really rooting for kbin to gain a foothold. Even more so now the actual Developers of Lemmy are showing their cards and dangerous ideologies.

I hope more people become aware of these issues with Lemmy, and will flood to a more neutral place like kbin, or perhaps another.