Khrux,

My main use of Reddit was distilled to Roleplaying games like D&D and I’d only browse all to mindlessly doomscroll. Reddit was the best place (in my opinion) for this communication because it has both the userbase and the structure for massive topical conversation.

I’m not returning to reddit but the lack of content in those circles here has actually dampened my passion for that entire world. I literally listen to 6-10 hours of podcasts per week on tabletop role-playing games, plus I read countless blogs and I’m practically up to date with all related content that comes from Lemmy or Masterdon, but it’s not the same, there is no deep discussion like what I used to have.

I’m not totally doing my part, for every 50 things I read here, I comment once maybe, but still.

Destraight,

Not good. You replace Lemmy from Reddit and a new problem emerges. Hexbear users.

awwwyissss,

I’ve cut out half my lemmy use because of the political extremism on here from Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Lemmy.ml isn’t all that much better. I’m not the only one drifting away because of it.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

Hang in there. I’ve heard word that soon users will have the ability to block entire instances. Personally, I’ve just blocked every Hexbear account on sight, and it seems to be improving my experience. I’ve also started to unsub from .ml communities, since I’ve noticed the same things you have.

awwwyissss,

Yeah I hope that helps. There’s still nothing else like the fediverse, I love the idea, it’s just swamped with political extremism right now.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

I think it will make a huge difference. Personally, I never understand why defederation is frowned upon. There are some instances that are just so toxic that they don’t deserve to be heard.

For the record, I’m a bit of a political extremist myself being an anarchist, but the users that I dislike are people who dunk on you without even giving you a chance, and political opinions that excuse things like authoritarianism and genocide. There’s a lot of that on hexbear, lemmygrad, and even .ml

huginn,

You know you can just block instances right?

awwwyissss,

Yeah

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

Maybe move to an instance that doesn't federate with them? That way you just don't see it.

schnick,

I’m fairly new, what’s the problem with them?

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

am use kbin

glennglog22,
@glennglog22@kbin.social avatar

I still end up having to use reddit to get questions answered, but I still have not contributed any content to the site since the exodus. Hell, I haven't bothered to log back into my account in ages. It doesn't feel the same, but my scrolling has more or less been supplanted by Kbin and Youtube.

HandsHurtLoL,

Haven't even directed my browser to reddit since migrating to kbin in June, but it's never fulfilled the same dopamine hit for me. I've supplanted my online addiction with YouTube now, which because of what I flit past and what I actually pay attention to has been extremely educational because of the algorithm!

Pretty early on, I ended up becoming the head moderator for a magazine on kbin, which then made me feel an ethical sort of guilt about commenting there anymore, so really the only place I wanted to be part of the dialogue is now gone for me here on kbin. Our magazine has a much larger mirror community on lemmyworld, so our magazine is barely holding on by a thread even after an initial burst of new subscribers. Discussion is almost non-existent in the magazine, and I'm not sure if it's because we tried to instate common-sense community guidelines early, or if because we missed the momentum of growing userbase after the rexxit since most people migrated to lemmyworld instead of kbin.

I'm not even sure why I keep my account. (I know I sound like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh in this post.)

ernest,
@ernest@kbin.social avatar

I understand the issue, the changes in the federation /kbin that will occur in the coming weeks / months will make the magazines much more visible in the broader fediverse. This could be a complete gamechanger.

HandsHurtLoL,

Ah - yikes. I was really not anticipating you seeing my mini pity party here, ernest. I know you and the team have been really working hard on kbin and I've seen massive changes with the modding panel and functions as a result of the latest instance update. I have a ton of respect for what you all are accomplishing on the fediverse and I was originally a very vocal early adopter after the first reddit migration in June. I trust that you all are shouldering a major responsibility with this instance, and I'm grateful for the fediverse at the very least. I hope when you read this you didn't get the sense that I had any criticisms of kbin as the particular user interface I use for the fediverse - just that even across the federated instances (mostly lemmyworld), my ability to doom scroll for hours a day outpaces the userbase.

I think I feel a personal sense of failure(?) or disappointment(?) that I wasn't able to usher in a similar sense of community and activity to the sub I moderate compared to reddit. I think moving over here, it felt like my sub would be the natural beneficiary of inheriting the volume of users and content that existed on reddit, but our mirror community on lemmyworld got the lion's share and it isn't even scratching former reddit heyday numbers. Also, the people in their community are... suspect. I don't care for the comments section.

I hope you didn't take umbrage to my comment. I'm eager to see what new features the kbin dev team will roll out.

ernest,
@ernest@kbin.social avatar

Oh, come on, I'm not that sensitive ;-) Constructive criticism helps me set goals, prioritize tasks on my board, and broaden my horizons when it comes to the overall experience with the platform. I really appreciate that. The fact is that Lemmy had a lot more time. I remember when they started federation tests, I was writing my first line of code. Some things just need time to mature. For me, it's not a race. I simply have a clear goal that I'm determined to achieve - to create a solid, accessible platform that others can benefit from and enjoy. Who knows, maybe it'll become the best in the entire fediverse someday ;-) Now, after the break, I'll be working on federation but also on customizing the feed to tailor it as much as possible to individual needs. Cheers!

Mounticat,
@Mounticat@kbin.social avatar

My man, you're straight up fighting it up there with one of the largest websites on the internet with vastly more resources and you're delivering. You deserve the praise and encouragement.

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

@HandsHurtLoL wait, are mods not meant to comment? I'm doing it wrong.

Edit: nvm, you're modding politics, I can see why you'd need to remain neutral for that.

HandsHurtLoL,

Yeah, it's a 100% self-imposed moratorium just because I don't want to appear to have a modding bias. There was a period where I was trying to enliven the community by posting a few articles each day, especially from sources not submitted to our mirror community on lemmyworld, but then my real life job was draining my soul for 3 straight months, so that endeavor fell by the wayside. Also, unless it's an article dumping on one key player, our user base doesn't tend to comment on news articles. It's a weird phenomenon I've observed.

I will add though that my hobby communities that I belong to never make it to my feed, which seems to imply that those communities are stagnant, too. I would probably comment more in those spaces, but it's rare that new threads are created, I guess.

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

I still comment a fair bit just from sorting by all > new. But yeah we're still in the early days comment-wise. The magazine I created almost never gets any comments or posts but there are a few lurkers who upvote and it slowly grows.

I've recently taken on a couple that were stagnating due to absentee mods and it's going slowly, but I still think it's important for kbin to have our own chill communities on these topics rather than outsourcing it all to the lemmys.

You must be doing something right, because I'm pretty sure I noticed your mag in my feed the other day which made me realise it's active. (I contributed an article but unfortunately it's on NZ politics because that's the only one I follow)!

Madison_rogue,
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

I wish you would comment. Contributors in the sub aren't following the rules very well. I contributed pretty often, however I've slacked off since the beginning of October. The Israel/Palestine conflict has really taken over my feed (as well as some Trek and Star Wars memes). Yet with the Middle East news it's been difficult posting for some reason. My activity has been diminished severely.

JowlesMcGee,
@JowlesMcGee@kbin.social avatar

It definitely feels like the kbin hosted magazines that have overlap with Lemmy magazines are struggling to get attention/engagement. I think part of it is just that so many people are over there and don't look at federated content, so more kbin users don't bother with contributing to our own magazines.

I'm not sure what the answer is to fix that, or if it's even something that needs to be fixed since we federation we're still receiving and engaging in content. Would love to see more activity on our home turf though.

muse,
@muse@kbin.social avatar

Miss the niche, enjoying it otherwise. Easier to name and shame the fascists and the tankies and just chill with people in discussion about media or what have you

RobotToaster,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Still visiting both, unfortunately a bunch of niche things I follow on reddit just don’t have activity here.

DaDragon,

If anything, a lot of the stuff I used to use Reddit for is still only available on Reddit.

On the plus side though, I no longer scroll Reddit, and only use it when I need to get some information on a topic

Chetzemoka,

This is me. I no longer scroll Reddit. I only go over there to browse the nursing and Boston subreddits occasionally because I can’t get that same interaction here. Everything else I do here now.

db0,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m not visiting reddit at all anymore except maybe to copy some memes. All my 3rd party dev work is focused on improving lemmy.

Gordon_Freeman,
@Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social avatar

Most of the magazines I subscribed are dead. The very few that post stuff receive no comments, I general everything is pretty dead

Th4tGuyII,
@Th4tGuyII@kbin.social avatar

I spend most of my time on here browsing through All - as long as you're willing to wade through Linux and Star-trek memes, there's still an awful lot to see in the Fediverse.

I don't think the Fediverse is populated enough at the moment that niche subs can be as active as they were on Reddit. Best you can for now is keep your niche alive and spread the word of it's existence

munter,

I made an effort to interact with one community in particular to get it going and it actually started getting a tad more lively recently. So maybe there’s hope if we play our parts.

FaceDeer,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

I still have a foot in both worlds, but my usage of Reddit has gone way down. I've always said that I'll quit Reddit when Old Reddit goes away, and I think that's still a reasonable threshold for me.

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

That was my threshold too but in reality I just stopped.

arandomthought,

I’ve only ever lurked on reddit and here I’m actually interacting, which I enjoy. Still, the feddiverse would profit from some more users and content creators, and it doesn’t really have an advertisment budget. So keep telling your friends (in a non-anoying way, of course).

munter,

Yes, somehow the barrier to actually engaging with others is lost in the fediverse. The guilt of posting on Reddit has been swapped by some strange feeling of obligation and/or pride when posting on here.

arandomthought,

Knowing that your interaction doesn’t boost the engagement numbers of a profit-oriented megacorp definitely helps.

kwomp,

There is so much less pretentious misleading alienated crap here. Love that. I’d like some more non-repost interesting videos, that’s something I miss… But totally worth the tradeoff of not getting pissed at how dumb of shit you can post and still get positive mass response. Plus the feed here has an end. No more oops I spent an hour looking at shit

kwomp,

Just gonna use this to not offtopic everyone: How come I can sometimes not see up/downvotes but only that global score in the upper right corner?

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

@kwomp it might depend on the instance that hosts the community and/or you?

Votes are not treated the same way across the fediverse and we're not actually all seeing the same vote scores.

For example, beehaw doesn't have downvotes, full stop. Kbin has downvotes but doesn't federate them - if you downvote me I won't see it, and vice versa.

Sonotsugipaa,
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Unfortunately I still have two subs that I check out - one of them being r/HFY, which has ongoing stories that are being posted there and nowhere else. Though I haven’t written a comment or (intentionally) [up|down]voted anything out of principle.

Other than that, Lemmy’s fine for casual shitposting and for now I don’t regret the migration.

Outtatime,

I’ve muted and or blocked about 200 places so far. As long as you don’t go into anything political or religious it’s okay. Of course, just like Reddit, Lemmy is dominated in those categories by extreme leftist authoritarians and edgy atheists

muse,
@muse@kbin.social avatar

Bruh you literally post edgy inflammatory political comments everywhere. Why are alt-righters hypocrites AND dumbasses?

Edit: ah, shitjustworks poster. It explains everything

Eggyhead,
@Eggyhead@kbin.social avatar

For my day to day time wasting, kbin and the fediverse is enough. But if I need help with anything, I’m extremely lucky if there is anything at all.

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