• brandonsh@kbin.social
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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:

          1. There’s an optimal size to subreddits. Small subreddits can be toxic, large ones are unless they have ultra strict moderation (so basically askhistorians).
          2. Massed users from other subreddits can easily overwhelm and torpedo communities, even ones larger than themselves if coordinated enough.
          3. There aren’t any sort of feedback mechanisms or checks on moderators.
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      Honestly, it has been a breath of fresh air. Lack of trolling, and no bots, it is old reddit.

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      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.

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        Oh, I’ve been a uBlock Origin user for years. On the desktop, at least, it’s just neat to see the adblocker sitting idle for once.

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      Right?! I have both Lemmy and Kbin, but Kbin is the one that reminds me of early Reddit the most. I hope it gets a mobile app soon.

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      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.

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    @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.

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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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    Steve Huffman and reddits admins are beginning to remind me of a rabid chihuahua.

    Btw, since Reddit is censoring it I’ll say it here, FUCK u/spez!!

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      The thing about masking your weaknesses with false bravado is that it makes you look like MORE of a dunce to almost everyone else.

      It’s so obvious and overdone that it’s actually got a full article on TV Tropes.

      BOISTEROUS WEAKLING

      Sure he may pick on people weaker than him, but if he happens to realize his opponent can effectively kick his ass, either he will find a lame excuse to get out of it, or he’ll stubbornly refuse to back down and get his ass kicked just for the sake of form.
      Don’t expect that to make him think twice the next time, though: the Boisterous Weakling shows an astounding inability to acknowledge his own impotence.

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    This is kbin. Come on in. We’re ahead of the curve, but we know /u/spez is dead at the curb.

    Your visit is long and great, we hope. Should you stay forever, help us float. For Reddit is gone, Spez is a fucking asshole I hate poems.

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    I tried out Lemmy for a couple days after the Reddit drama started, just decided to try out kbin instead and think it’s pretty great. I’m very happy to stop using Reddit :)

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    Reddit seems like a second rate site now. Lol sad but true. i opened it the other day and was like dam this stuff is stupid now! of course i was in old reddit :P

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      I accidently went to Reddit website not through rif yesterday and still need to get the eyebleach

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    I only open reddit every once in a while to go through my subs to see if they are now on the threadiverse

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    So far so good, it’s been nice being away from reddit. Just waiting on post hiding/hiding when upvoting/downvoting :)

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        A temporary work around is using the upvote (aka favorite) and the post will be shown in your favorites, whereas the “boost” acts more like an upvote on kbin

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    I’m shocked at how many users there are on kbin/lemmy and how explorable it all is. Though there are fewer users, it’s way friendlier and less circlejerky than almost every Reddit community I’ve explored. Plus, unlike Mastodon, it’s been incredibly easy to see other magazines or even other servers on my frontpage, search for them, and join them. I honestly wish the Fediverse doesn’t become mainstream, just so that this sort of community can be preserved.