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As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a carbon copy of reddit. From the interface to the group dynamics, please lets us now...

What can we do NOT to ruin kbin for you?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

best thing you could do prolly is to never use the word keebinetter again

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

Dear pre-migration Keebieweebies...

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

We've all missed the memo, I just found out it's officially the kawaii boys international network.

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

Yeah, that word is giving me the keebeejeebees.

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

It makes no sense. Without context, I would have no idea that "keebinetter" is supposed to mean "user of kbin." What's wrong with established naming conventions? And who reads "kbin" as "keebin"?

A name based on kbin doesn't make sense anyway, the whole idea is that this isn't just kbin.

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

I hope it doesn't stick because it really sounds stupid, no offence.

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

Agreed!

How about kbinians or kbinistas?

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

This isn't just kbin, that's kinda the whole point. A name based on kbin is short-sighted, because kbin is only one small piece of this thing.

Instead of instantly doing the same shit we did on reddit 15 years ago, why don't we do things differently this time? We don't have to call kbin users anything. In any case, please god not "keebinetter."

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

"Dear Fediverse Citizen..."

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

"Hey there, fellow feds!"

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

I unironically like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I'd wager keeping our narwhals and bacons out of this is probably a good first step? I'm here to join Kbin not turn Kbin into reddit 2.0. Hope we can get some real feedback on this one from people who have been here for a minute. lol

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

It's been super refreshing to have some change, before I'd check comments on Reddit I could generally guess the top 3 comments and be right almost always. Take into account that sometimes things get crossposted and reposted and it starts to show you how unoriginal it all can be.

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

What do you mean, the same song lyrics or an endless string of "nice" after the number 69 show up is sooooooooo funny the umpteenth time.

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

Or a transcript of the entire Spanish Inquisition sketch.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What can we do NOT to ruin kbin for you?

Just a bit of patience and understanding. The software is a prototype. It'll fall over a lot.
Not every question needs an answer today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For being a prototype, it's still damn good.

I agree that patience will be key to making kbin into a greater place, the rest will come naturally as community(ies) begin to form and prosper.

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

The software is a prototype. It'll fall over a lot.

...Remember that Man of Steel trailer?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

/r/politics, /r/blackpeopletwitter, /r/whitepeopletwitter, /r/til, /r/tifu, /r/aita, /r/askreddit and all sorts of trans/terf/whatever activism should stay on reddit.

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

It might not seem necessary, but Reddit was extremely hostile to minorities when those subs were created. There are parts of Reddit that remained hostile until the very end. If it turns out that it's necessary here, then it's necessary here, but a lot of those hostile elements are hopefully going to go off to voat or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

AFAIK /kbin is pretty new, even more so than Lemmy, I've been here for some days and the explosion of users is honestly insane, but also pretty exciting to see.
Also the users that have migrated so far have been "high quality" and really friendly, in my opinion users like you, like us, are pretty much the base of what /kbin will be.
We have to keep in mind that this site is not Reddit and probably never will be, but that's what I like the most about it.

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

My thoughts on this is that things shouldn't be changed to conform with how Reddit did things.

I saw people saying that default settings need to be changed because that's what Reddit people would expect by default and it's like .... How about no?

I'm part of the migration (Saturday), but I don't want this to become Digg3.0! I want it to be better and its own thing.

Now, those settings I was talking about (basically who/what you follow is shown to others by default), I fully think those settings should be changed by default, but not because that's how reddit did it, but because it's a good idea (imho).

We've also got to keep in mind that KBin is basically a one man operation right now and not a company with 2000 people and expectations need to go through that filter first. This site is fucking amazing with that in mind and I think if you just look at it as Reddit 2.0 it's easy to forget the achievements that Ernest has made.

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