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best thing you could do prolly is to never use the word keebinetter again
Dear pre-migration Keebieweebies...
We've all missed the memo, I just found out it's officially the kawaii boys international network.
We could take a page from Utah and call ourselves Kbahns.
Yeah, that word is giving me the keebeejeebees.
Agreed!
How about kbinians or kbinistas?
This isn't just kbin, that's kinda the whole point. A name based on kbin is short-sighted, because kbin is only one small piece of this thing.
Instead of instantly doing the same shit we did on reddit 15 years ago, why don't we do things differently this time? We don't have to call kbin users anything. In any case, please god not "keebinetter."
"Dear Fediverse Citizen..."
"Hey there, fellow feds!"
I unironically like this.
Fedizens?
What can we do NOT to ruin kbin for you?
Just a bit of patience and understanding. The software is a prototype. It'll fall over a lot.
Not every question needs an answer today.
For being a prototype, it's still damn good.
I agree that patience will be key to making kbin into a greater place, the rest will come naturally as community(ies) begin to form and prosper.
Does it show active user count somewhere? I'd love to see how much influx there really is.
https://kbin.social/stats — At the time of this comment, there are a whopping 123,919 users on this instance alone.
There's also a second kbin instance now called fedia.io that lists an additional 18,296.
May that number continue to multiply
Thanks a lot!
I'd wager keeping our narwhals and bacons out of this is probably a good first step? I'm here to join Kbin not turn Kbin into reddit 2.0. Hope we can get some real feedback on this one from people who have been here for a minute. lol
It's been super refreshing to have some change, before I'd check comments on Reddit I could generally guess the top 3 comments and be right almost always. Take into account that sometimes things get crossposted and reposted and it starts to show you how unoriginal it all can be.
What do you mean, the same song lyrics or an endless string of "nice" after the number 69 show up is sooooooooo funny the umpteenth time.
Or a transcript of the entire Spanish Inquisition sketch.
AFAIK /kbin is pretty new, even more so than Lemmy, I've been here for some days and the explosion of users is honestly insane, but also pretty exciting to see.
Also the users that have migrated so far have been "high quality" and really friendly, in my opinion users like you, like us, are pretty much the base of what /kbin will be.
We have to keep in mind that this site is not Reddit and probably never will be, but that's what I like the most about it.
Wait are we part of the original wave of Kbin immigrants?
Considering that we were able to make 3 letter usernames, we've gotta be in the first few thousand.
Yeah, more or less. I've been on the fediverse for a little bit, but about a month ago it was mainly just the dev Ernest posting to himself. The fact that this is still in prototype phase and working as well as it does is frankly amazing. Timing wasn't great with reddit imploding now, since it's a bit trial by fire, but I'm really excited about where we're going.
My thoughts on this is that things shouldn't be changed to conform with how Reddit did things.
I saw people saying that default settings need to be changed because that's what Reddit people would expect by default and it's like .... How about no?
I'm part of the migration (Saturday), but I don't want this to become Digg3.0! I want it to be better and its own thing.
Now, those settings I was talking about (basically who/what you follow is shown to others by default), I fully think those settings should be changed by default, but not because that's how reddit did it, but because it's a good idea (imho).
We've also got to keep in mind that KBin is basically a one man operation right now and not a company with 2000 people and expectations need to go through that filter first. This site is fucking amazing with that in mind and I think if you just look at it as Reddit 2.0 it's easy to forget the achievements that Ernest has made.
/r/politics, /r/blackpeopletwitter, /r/whitepeopletwitter, /r/til, /r/tifu, /r/aita, /r/askreddit and all sorts of trans/terf/whatever activism should stay on reddit.
It might not seem necessary, but Reddit was extremely hostile to minorities when those subs were created. There are parts of Reddit that remained hostile until the very end. If it turns out that it's necessary here, then it's necessary here, but a lot of those hostile elements are hopefully going to go off to voat or whatever.
Slightly off topic, but why are we saying 'kee'binetters? Where is the 'kee' in kbin?
I've been pronouncing it "KayBin".
Same here
That’s correct. Like sbin in Linux (the inspiration for the name according to Ernest)
Interesting, I thought it was just an abbreviation of the original Polish site, karab.in (which would also explain why 'subreddits' are called magazines, karabin = rifle). Either way, that's pretty seamless inspiration.
- Stop asking for email at registration time, if you can (it's not hard to spin up new email addresses, so it really solves nothing).
- Avoid all forms of censorship. Free speech is sometimes painful...that's the price we pay for it. This is first and foremost.
- I'm OK with moderate advertising...you gotta keep the lights on.
- Keep the UI simplistic.
- Robust APIs.
Avoid all forms of censorship. Free speech is sometimes painful...that's the price we pay for it.
No. Not worth the pain for me. If this place gets infested by Nazis and alike, i'll be gone in no time.
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