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What are some kbin or Lemmy alternatives to common Reddit subs?

I'll certainly miss r/unexpected, r/guitarlearning, r/damnthatsinteresting, r/historymemes and many more

Hopefully this can turn into a useful thread for everyone looking to replace Reddit with a close enough experience, and maybe even a better one once it gains traction

Here are some I have found:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Up top, if you hit "Magazines" it gives you a list of magazines on Kbin, sorted by subscriber count. You can find recreations of common Reddit communities here. There's also a search function to look for a particular magazine. These are the ones you mentioned:

As for other suggestions, I'm a bit biased. I moderated /r/Disneyland on Reddit, and I've recreated it here on Kbin alongside some of the original mod team: @Disneyland (mobile link). I didn't moderate /r/modeltrains... but I saw there wasn't any model train communities on here, so I decided to create @modeltrains (mobile link).

As far as things I don't moderate, here's a bunch of cool communities I've found here on Kbin. Note that Kbin magazines are case-sensitive (something I'd wish they'd change):

If you see something in here you like but there's no content in it - content comes from users like you!

Be the change you wish to see. Contribute something - anything - to get the community going. If everyone pitches in soon enough communities will start thriving.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once federation is turned back on, will the magazine list show the federated magazines and their subscriber count too? Or is that list local to this instance only?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It only shows the subscribers that belong to this instance. But yes, every federated magazine will be shown.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe this doesn't matter, but if magazines are unique between instances, how will we know if we are patronizing the most active magazine? E.g., Lemmy has, I dunno, @factorio, and Kbin has @factorio, is there an easy way to tell which one is more active?

Further, I saw a diagram floating around that suggested that magazines between different instances of Kbin are also unique. E.g., @factorio @kbin.social is unique from @factorio @fedia.io? Isn't that the same fragmentation as accessing different forums?

Wouldn't mind an ELI5.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk where to ask this, so asking here, what is the next step after the two day blackout? Will subreddits stay dark if reddit refuses to make any changes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A list of subreddits remaining dark indefinitely is being made.

There's a few hundred of them, including big ones like /r/aww and /r/videos. There's also popular ones like /r/perfectlycutscremes, /r/lotrmemes, /r/murderedbywords, /r/Nintendo, /r/Hearthstone, etc. There will be a full list soon.

Many other subs are watching to see what the majority opinion is before making a move.

One subreddit has been taken out of the protest, /r/AdviceAnimals. The head mod got removed by Reddit admins and the remaining mods re-opened the sub, deleting all the protest posts. It's unclear what prompted this, and whether it was something Reddit admins did at the request of the other mods or not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit changed their policy yesterday with this post.

We also want to reiterate that we respect your decisions to do what’s best for your community, and will do what we can to ensure you're safe while doing so. However, we do expect that these decisions have been made through consensus, and not via unilateral action. We ask that you strive to ensure that your moderator team is aligned on community decision-making – regardless of what decisions are being made. If you believe that your community or another community is being subject to decisions made by a sole moderator without buy-in from the broader mod team, you can let us know via the Moderator Code of Conduct form above.

It's old fashioned union busting tactics. Try to foment internal discord and break the strike. Until yesterday, the head mod was king and could do whatever they wanted. Administrators have upheld this standard for literally 15 years. Interesting how radically it changed yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

can confirm. been a mod on reddit for a long time and it was always very clear that head mod decided how things went, and there was a hierarchy of mods. now it seems they just decided to throw that out the window?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can’t I see comments :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1Blocker was blocking it on my iPhone, maybe check anything like that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Forgot I wrote this! Also forgot I had 1Blocker! Switching to Firefox fixed it. Was using safari before. Thanks!