JonEFive

Yup. That’s the beauty of the fediverse. Don’t like the way one app manages content? I’ve got good news - there are at least two dozen other apps to choose from.

If you don’t like the way Kbin does things and think it should be more like Lemmy, just go join a Lemmy instance. Neither platform will be perfect or will satisfy every whim of every user.

I think that’s the issue. People really need to remember just how early Kbin is in it’s development. Ernest is working on the main features and keeping the insurance alive (and doing a fantastic job of it). Tutorials usually come much later in the development cycle one the product is ready for the masses.

Kbin got super accelerated adoption because of the reddit drama. It’s missing a lot of polish and even some core features. It is also a different platform from reddit with different goals and design concepts.

People coming here expecting a 1:1 replacement for reddit are frankly in the wrong place. There are plenty of reddit alternatives out there that are much more complete and are much closer to the reddit experience. If people are here, they need to be okay with using a different platform that is in active development and doesn’t have all the kinks worked out yet.

He’s emulating a guy who is running his own company into the ground. They’re both going to be left with empty shells of what they first inherited. I can at least give the slightest benefit of the doubt to spez’s original intentions years ago, but it hardly matters now.

And if course there will be no consequences to either of them that affect them directly. They’ll both still have more money than they know what to do with.

Combined with personalities that were ambitious enough to leave literally everything behind and make a rather perilous trek just for the opportunity to access and potentially exploit those resources.

Who here remembers Bill Lambeer’s Combat Basketball?

change community rules to apply retroactively that in order to maintain freshness and improve visibility of smaller posts, anything over x days old or over x karma will be removed.

reminds me of /(thatothersite)/itsaunixsystem

well, yes and no. It’s an attempt to force the sub open and give the “option” to no longer moderate. They’re perfectly willing to part ways with you as a moderator as long as it gets the sub open. Their view is that everyone is replaceable.

depends on the desires of the majority of the community I would say. If the majority of the community says they want to change the community, then who are we to disagree? I’d vote for the change. Unfortunately for that vote, I haven’t been on Reddit since before the blackout. The only reason I’ll be going back will be to delete some/all of my posts.

His broader point is that he thinks mods should have stuck to their guns and kept subs private which would include their historic posts. By even reopening, they’re allowing traffic to return to the site even if a few large communities are memeing hard. For the most part, subs that have reopened are going to return to business as usual. All because the mods of those communities didn’t want to sacrifice their control. Spez called their bluff.

While thousands of users have been driven away, there are still more than enough who will remain and continue to engage with the site. The only lesson Reddit will have learned is that they can just wait it out no matter how unpopular of a decision they make.

I’m very curious to see if there will be any meaningful drop in traffic at this time next month.

I’m really curious to see if we start to see separate instances dedicated to separate topics like that. Imagine that forum you used to participate in on its own instance with all the same subforums/categories. The difference now is that you can federate that niche forum with the wider fediverse if you want to engage with a larger audience.

People are used to that singular reddit feel. I never started new posts on reddit because I would rarely get a response. If nobody catches your post in the new section of a semi-popular sub within an hour or so, it’s gone. Or on a large sub, I had a post removed for being too similar to other posts even though a search didn’t yield any results. When I asked which post it was similar to, I get a snarky comment from a power tripping mod about “not being a librarian” and muted for a week so that I can’t respond as punishment for daring to question them. Come to think of it, reddit is kind of a shitty place with the exception of a few niche subs.

Now, I’m feeling much more inclined to start new threads since I feel I’d actually be able to have a conversation here.