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Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how other's are taking it.

For me, I feel a bit of a sore hollow spot for what reddit used to be and watching it implode is not fun for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a hole in my heart, absolutely. I moved over to kbin on June 12, and I hoped that my grief would have subsided over the following 2 weeks, but I feel just as displaced.

I echo what others have said that at least here in the Fediverse, it feels safe enough to comment without getting trolled or dogpiled, so I have been much more engaged here than the last 6 years of my time on reddit, combined. But there are barely enough users here to even have a repartee. 😓

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

Some of that is servers not keeping up with load or smashing into various other scaling problems. I've seen posts on both the Lemmy and kbin side with people trying to work load issues out, but if I look at either kbin.social or lemmy.world, the largest kbin and lemmy instances right now, I see a bunch of activity on each instance that hasn't yet propagated over to the other.

That being said, it beats early Reddit, where the whole shebang would go down for a day or two sometimes as they tried to scale up. At least here there are always more working instances that one can fall over to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't mind server hiccups or very slow load times, though that has been the case for both kbin in the past two weeks and huge swaths of reddit's history.

Although I'm not a programmer, I keep up a little bit with the threads for kbinMeta and other magazines that are direct links to Ernest and his patch notes. Kbin defedded temporarily after the first big migration push from June 12-15. During this time, everyone was also being auto logged out for being inactive for more than 2 minutes at a time, and captcha was a requirement nearly every time you tried logging back in.

I have seen a big uptick in activity on a lot of topical and current events magazines, but my hobby communities don't exist here. I've subscribed to every magazine accessible to me across kbin and Lemmy for knitting and crochet, and I still have yet to see any of those threads on my m/sub > sort by hot page.