I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
Reddit is speedrunning the death of Twitter.
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Bruh lmfao reddit is tweaking the fuck out now.
Paging Streisand, paging Barbra Streisand. Your effect has arrived.
Absolutely. It's really quite fascinating, sociologically speaking lol.
I run the r/kbin subreddit.
I'm just glad I got out and found lemmy
This wild banning of subreddits that promote alternatives to reddit is likely to push a lot of people to leave who may have been on the fence about staying on reddit
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Absolutely wild that they looked at what happened at Twitter, identified all the things that triggered the several periods of mass migration to Mastodon (shutting off api access, policy changes, shutting down conversation about alternatives) and decided to speed run it. Next thing is trying to directly monetise people by giving them a red tick or something.
Reddit is shifting from user-focused to investor-focused and AI-focused. It doesn't matter what users think. They have done their job. They can all literally quit the site today, and it still doesn't sink Reddit's plans. Reddit has no reason to care what any user thinks anymore. Those days are over.
Technically it has kinda worked out for Twitter though. They still have a sizable userbase, its just a dumpster fire now.
Probably depends on how you define success with these things. The valuation of the company is down a significant amount since it was purchased and recent reports had ad revenue also down a significant amount too. Whether the owner cares about those things is probably up for debate, and evidence would suggest he might be looking for something other than money out of it, like influence, or just a play thing. I'm not sure the owners of Reddit are motivated by the same things, I think they just want to be richer. Time will tell I guess, it's difficult to tell the difference between incompetence and intentional acts from the outside.
I mean, there's an argument to be made that reddit was going down this path long before Twitter, what with their hosting and perhaps even promotion of r/t_d
My assumption all along is that the new API pricing thing was in preparation for a backpedal where they implement a paid tier for users that includes third party app access
Very plausible, but they can screw off with that psychological game bullshit. I am tired of everything being about profits these days. I want the early 2000s internet back!
Centralization needs to die, and community collaboration needs to take its place so stuff like that stops happening.
A single entity made a single decision, killing countless devs years of work in an instant.
Used for spam. Right. 🙄
Reddit really hates lemmy since lemmy is practically better than reddit
I’m on both beehaw and kbin. I’m still trying to understand kbin. I guess magazines are like communities? But the list of magazines, while long, appears to only be local? How do I see communities on other instances to subscribe to them? Beehaw is more understandable. I can see what instance someone is posting from. I can see and subscribe to communities for other instances. I can select to see all my subscriptions from any instance.
So for now, I’ll keep both my accounts. Let the dust settle. Learn how to drive “this thing” and eventually delete an account from a server that I don’t need. It’ll free up space for someone else.
You can find lemmy communities via the search function. Search with @COMMUNITY@LEMMY-INSTANCE, this produces a magazine that is linked to the community.
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That's crazy. This is the sole reason in decided to create a lemmy account.
I haven't been this entertained by reddit shenanigans in a long time tbh
I tried to register for Kbin and never got the registration email.
Sorry if this is a dumb question - wtf is Kbin? I ass it mentioned on here everywhere, is it another Lemmy instance? I feel out of the loop!
kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa.
How does one do that?
It's bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to "All", wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you're on lemmy.world)
Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.
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Hahaha oh god this is just... wow...
Hard to believe how different reddit was back in 2010
Is there any advantages to kbin over lemmy? php seems like a much worse tech stack for no benefit.
Kbin is nice. It’s easy to register on kbin.social so might as well check it out, although they are possibly under DDOS attack right now. I’m on there and lemmy at the moment.
Both systems are very similar and are compatible. You can follow lemmy from kbin and vice versa. Lemmy is probably more mature, but kbin is also pretty slick and seems to be moving fast. The community on kbin.social is fairly large so you will likely find more interaction on there without having to subscribe to federated servers. That probably makes onboarding a little easier for reddit refugees. They also have a microblog feature that works like Mastodon (federated twitter alternative) so you get to use lemmy-like and mastodon-like in one app and federate with both.
The fact that kbin is written in PHP shouldn’t put anybody off. Modern PHP isn’t the same as the old stuff that earned a bad reputation. I haven’t used PHP for a long time, but my understanding is it’s now a solid stack that’s on par with other mainstream stacks.
You can follow people on kbin, can't follow them on Lemmy "because it would require an overhaul"
I mean it's easier to develop new features when you're using a language like PHP. I love Rust but it's going to be laughable at how slow they will move new features out compared to other platforms unless they can get a ton of more developer volunteer support (and way less people know Rust to begin with).
How many new features are there really to add?
I'd rather them be made in a much more solid language than having them fast.
Better profiles, followers, better community customization, better embeds, I can keep going on. Yeah, Reddit has a ton of stupid features that nobody asked for but it also has a lot of things that are very good for everyone. Obviously we're still in the early days but they're already running into issues (they are just finishing ripping out all the websockets and chat server stuff, which was one of the big things slowing down instances)
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That’s crazy lmao, I found out about kbin through all the fiasco and the subreddit called redditalternatives where it was rated very highly, just a few hours ago too
But anyway, hello everyone, been a reddit user since 2013, this seems like a nice place to lose productive hours to
Came here throught the same post as well! The fewer numbers here are actually motivating me to be more active on this platform.
Me, three! I have to agree that I've already commented, posted, and boosted stuff more in the past 2-3 days than I have in the last couple of months on Reddit.
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It is strange that they neither banned Lemmymigration or Reddit alternatives
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