I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
I’m definitely more of a lurker, and I was commenting and posting on reddit here and there. But being on Kbin (for myself) i’ve felt like i’ll put my two cents down and actually have a conversation instead of getting a copy paste chain. Or i’ll see someone with a question and other users will actively be trying to help. to me it feels good to be somewhere where there is a lot of room for growth as opposed to being somewhere that’s plateaued.
It’s been refreshing. Kbin and the Fediverse feel way more interactive than Reddit felt.
It feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.
I feel that the “small” bump it has to be accessible makes it interesting for people that really want to access it. The 15 likes on a post feel like 15 real people, engaged, interested, and hit completely different from the 1.5k likes a post in reddit would get.
Agreed. On Reddit you’d routinely see posts with 1,000s, even 10,000s of likes, even absolutely garbage posts would have 100s just from lurkers scrolling through upvoting everything they see.
Even 1 like here feels more real than 100s over there.
feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.
That’s been my issue with Reddit for a while now. People are extremely polarized on everything. You can’t have a conversation about a casual disagreement without being downvoted to oblivion and people interpreting it as a personal attack. The smaller, focused subs are better, but still fall firmly into the groupthink dynamic of the rest of the site.
Exactly. Debating with people is fun, but it isn’t enjoyable when literally everything but the most milquetoast of opinions ends up starting a viscious argument
I’m not going to lie, I don’t really use any 3rd party reddit app, and I like the official app and all that, but I’ve made the switch because I’m not going to support the CEO of the company doing the same thing that reddit mods get made fun of for. However, kbin is a bit more user unfriendly and it certainly is a learning curve. I haven’t figured out how to see which magazines I’m subscribed to except for hunting them down from the list of mags. I haven’t had any issues with the community yet, and I get how the federation works and all that, I just think kbin is missing some of the features that really made reddit a breeze.
Depending on what you’re using, but on PC if you go to the menu bars by your username there’s an option to filter your feed by different categories including subscribed.
I agree though, would be better to have that in a more noticeable place eventually because it’s not super intuitive.
Same, really. on Reddit, I mostly used the desktop interface so the third party app issue did not affect me directly. Still, Reddit emulating Twitter with the whole effectively killing third-party apps and likely putting everything behind a login-wall, combined with their CEO’s tone deaf, smarmy responses… pushed me to jump into the fediverse after contemplating a move for months.
There’s a lot of work to be done here, but I like what I am seeing so far. The best thing is that no one entity controls this, so bad actors’ impact can be mitigated.
Try out lemmy too. Maybe the UI will fit you better. I made a kbin account too and I actually hope that kbin is the one that catches on, since it supports interaction with mastodon.
That said, I also really miss the subscribed subreddit bar on top of the page like old.reddit.com had.
It’s available. Click on the gear icon below your name at the top right. A menu appears.
Look for “Show top bar” and click yes. Although it’s not fully working yet; but it has the All/Subscribed/Moderate/Favourites buttons. The Mags listed seem to be random at the moment.
Thanks for this! I learn something new every day.
I’m finding I post and comment at like ten times the rate I did on reddit. The actual user interactions over here are MILES better.
That much is true. I love how the upvote/downvote system works on Kbin much better, since there isn’t just one total karma sum number.
It didn’t even occur to me that I can see the downvote count, wow. That’s how Reddit used to be too, so it didn’t register as different, I guess.
@cody has been doing some work revamping parts of the UI, including the voting buttons. See his post here and let him know what you think.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign/p/375852
