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Kbin is currently designed to encourage brigading. The fix is easy. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The current default "Homepage" value is "All". That makes sense for users with zero subscribed magazines, so they see something.

But for users with one or more subscribed magazines, the default value for "Homepage" needs to be "Subscriptions".

That's partially just because subscriptions mean little if the default frontpage ignores them. But there's a more important reason than that.

The current situation is that posts in m/Conservative are heavily downvoted, and barely upvoted. (Whatever your politics may be, consider if this was happening to you.) As more ex-redditors join, this problem is likely to worsen.

Eventually moderators need better controls, to say things like "Only members can vote", etc.

But for now, a very easy fix is to change the default value of "Homepage" to be "Subscriptions". Of course, "All" should still be a selectable option for those who prefer it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, not to be rude, but if you just want a single instance with many communities, you're describing Reddit.

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

Correct. Many of us who left reddit for kbin are fed up with reddit's governance and policies, not its platform architecture. Kbin seems to have been chosen as the world's probable reddit replacement, so here we are.

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

Fair enough, honestly.