I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
This wild banning of subreddits that promote alternatives to reddit is likely to push a lot of people to leave who may have been on the fence about staying on reddit
I'm just waiting for the real Streisand effect to kick in if they ban /r/redditalternatives
That's already happening. People are mentioning kbin, lemmy, and tildes pretty regularly. A few others have tossed their sites in as well. It's going to get passed around one way or another.
I just deleted Reddit after seeing this post lol
If you haven't done it, go back and delete your posts and comments. Reddit needs your content, without its users providing content and moderation Reddit is done.
Honestly, such a disappointment to see what has been a great community devolve because of such short sighted decisions..
That’s crazy lmao, I found out about kbin through all the fiasco and the subreddit called redditalternatives where it was rated very highly, just a few hours ago too
But anyway, hello everyone, been a reddit user since 2013, this seems like a nice place to lose productive hours to
Came here throught the same post as well! The fewer numbers here are actually motivating me to be more active on this platform.
Me, three! I have to agree that I've already commented, posted, and boosted stuff more in the past 2-3 days than I have in the last couple of months on Reddit.
Welcome! I've been here for a few days now and this reminds me of the reddit of old. You'll love it!
Bruh lmfao reddit is tweaking the fuck out now.
Paging Streisand, paging Barbra Streisand. Your effect has arrived.
Absolutely. It's really quite fascinating, sociologically speaking lol.
Hahaha oh god this is just... wow...
Hard to believe how different reddit was back in 2010
Reddit really hates lemmy since lemmy is practically better than reddit
Absolutely wild that they looked at what happened at Twitter, identified all the things that triggered the several periods of mass migration to Mastodon (shutting off api access, policy changes, shutting down conversation about alternatives) and decided to speed run it. Next thing is trying to directly monetise people by giving them a red tick or something.
Technically it has kinda worked out for Twitter though. They still have a sizable userbase, its just a dumpster fire now.
Probably depends on how you define success with these things. The valuation of the company is down a significant amount since it was purchased and recent reports had ad revenue also down a significant amount too. Whether the owner cares about those things is probably up for debate, and evidence would suggest he might be looking for something other than money out of it, like influence, or just a play thing. I'm not sure the owners of Reddit are motivated by the same things, I think they just want to be richer. Time will tell I guess, it's difficult to tell the difference between incompetence and intentional acts from the outside.
I mean, there's an argument to be made that reddit was going down this path long before Twitter, what with their hosting and perhaps even promotion of r/t_d
I haven't been this entertained by reddit shenanigans in a long time tbh
Is there any advantages to kbin over lemmy? php seems like a much worse tech stack for no benefit.
Kbin is nice. It’s easy to register on kbin.social so might as well check it out, although they are possibly under DDOS attack right now. I’m on there and lemmy at the moment.
Both systems are very similar and are compatible. You can follow lemmy from kbin and vice versa. Lemmy is probably more mature, but kbin is also pretty slick and seems to be moving fast. The community on kbin.social is fairly large so you will likely find more interaction on there without having to subscribe to federated servers. That probably makes onboarding a little easier for reddit refugees. They also have a microblog feature that works like Mastodon (federated twitter alternative) so you get to use lemmy-like and mastodon-like in one app and federate with both.
The fact that kbin is written in PHP shouldn’t put anybody off. Modern PHP isn’t the same as the old stuff that earned a bad reputation. I haven’t used PHP for a long time, but my understanding is it’s now a solid stack that’s on par with other mainstream stacks.
Honestly, I joined lemmy.ml first before really taking a look at the ideals of most of that userbase and I just do not agree with a large part of what they identify with.
Bounced around to a few other instances that all seemed... Idk not the right fit. But kbin so far seems much more my style and I finally now got an account created so we'll see how it goes.
I feel like the server owner matters more than the platform itself. Which is to say that while I'm also not a fan of how far left the lemmy devs are, I have found some lemmy communities to be more in line with my values. I imagine if lemmy grows at all we're eventually going to see many views represented. So I think whether to use kbin or lemmy should really come down to aesthetic preferences. I personally prefer the look/feel of lemmy, but I respect anyone who prefers kbin. It's pretty cool that we can communicate across platforms. Really shows the power of ActivityPub.
I'm curious what has turned you off here, since I'm very new. Reddit's weirdly right wing political tilt has been turning me off for some time now, hoping that's not the case here.
Also new, and I'm with you- reddit was always too full of right wingers for my liking. I also like this instance (lemmy.ml)and it seems to have a more left tilt, specifically when it comes to bigotry.
I think it might serve it's own niche. I heard the microblog tab makes it a bit nicer to see content from mastodon users that someone is following. so it could develop to be like a hybrid lemmy/mastodon type of tool. But I haven't read too much into what kbin is aiming to be
I'm just glad I got out and found lemmy
Reddit is speedrunning the death of Twitter.
I run the r/kbin subreddit.
Used for spam. Right. 🙄
I joined here specifically because I saw that had been banned - they must see this as the threat. Anyone have any info about what was in the guide? I registered and subscribed to some things, but still getting my feet wet.
I’m on both beehaw and kbin. I’m still trying to understand kbin. I guess magazines are like communities? But the list of magazines, while long, appears to only be local? How do I see communities on other instances to subscribe to them? Beehaw is more understandable. I can see what instance someone is posting from. I can see and subscribe to communities for other instances. I can select to see all my subscriptions from any instance.
So for now, I’ll keep both my accounts. Let the dust settle. Learn how to drive “this thing” and eventually delete an account from a server that I don’t need. It’ll free up space for someone else.
@BreadDog Myself and @moar_salt created r/kbin and it hasn't been banned yet. Check it out and spread the word! I deleted my moderator account to it but can assist where needed.
Wow that was fast. Glad I managed to read the guide and register for an account before that happened.
Hello everyone, just saw this site and saw this post so created my account
Admin-level moderation is getting quite out of hand I see.
That's crazy. This is the sole reason in decided to create a lemmy account.
I was browsing it while sitting in a drive thru. Got home and it was gone. Unbelievable.
Do you think this was maybe mishandled a smidge?