kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.
I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.
Divert more power to hull integrity!
Served 13 years in Reddit Penetentiary, just joined here, hello
We beleive in second chance here so welcome !
Yeah, the question though is if you believe yourself to be rehabilitated and ready to enter civil society
Of course not! That why i stay on the internet
Civil? Fuck you!
I’m just joking. Are we doing /s here?
I’d like to think that we don’t need it for now but with the migration continuing we might need it soon so let keep it not far
Is kbin different than lemmy? I don’t understand how it might be related
You’re literally talking to a kbin.social topic my man.
Go over to kbin.social and see what the discussion looks like from their side: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/51779/r-ModCoord-has-officially-recommended-migration-off-of-Reddit
Does kbin have multiple instances? Or is it basically a Lemmy-and-Mastodon singular hybrid instance? Is it even open source?
Does kbin have multiple instances?
Yes.
Or is it basically a Lemmy-and-Mastodon singular hybrid instance?
Ummm… sure? At least kbin.social is a singular hybrid instance that has better-than-expected Lemmy-and-Mastodon compatibility. Not perfect yet, but pretty good.
Is it even open source?
Yes.
Thanks. Everyone seems to talk about kbin.social as if others don’t exist.
Kbin is so new compared to Lemmy that there were only like 2 instances a few weeks ago and the second one wasn’t in English lol. There are more now but kbin.social is still the biggest and the sentiment stuck around.
I feel like federation let’s this basically be what many want reddit to be, a platform by the userbase, for the userbase.
Exactly. Capitalist platforms will all suffer from enshitification. They will eventually have to make money, and users are products. Their shareholders will eventually force the platforms to extract money from their users.
What do you mean, the users have already doing unpaid work for the platforms from the start. The shareholders simply take that for granted and think they can fuck them over and take twice as much value from them.
When we are talking about enshittification, we’re talking about these stages:
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Initial Stage: When a platform starts, it needs users, so it makes itself valuable to users. It provides services that are beneficial to the users, attracting them to the platform.
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Second Stage: Once the platform has a substantial user base, it starts to abuse its users to make things better for its business customers. It starts prioritizing its business needs over the needs of the users.
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Final Stage: Finally, the platform starts to abuse its business customers to claw back all the value for itself. It starts taking a larger share of the value that passes between the users and the business customers.
That is, Reddit made it attractive for users to come and write content, and moderators worked for free, and Reddit loved that because they didn’t have to pay them. But lo and behold, they have to answer to their shareholders, so they came up with these restrictions to squeeze more money out of users and moderators.
And right now, because of Reddit entering the final (Digg v4) stage, the fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, & KBin) will shortly be entering the second stage. Keep the ad blockers and all shields up, be ready for brand deals, and “sponsored” federation.
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