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It’s feeling a bit like 2008 all over again, the community feels smaller, more engaged and with a main sense of purpose. It’s refreshing.

I’m glad to be journeying on this spaceship with y’all.

It seems to me that there are several factors. Firstly, the instance was created recently, about 1-2 months ago. There wasn't even an official instance opening, you know, with cake and confetti ;) During this time, I've been observing people on the Fediverse. It's unlikely that any follows were given by chance. Later on, wonderful people who discovered kbin did the rest. That's how it is in the Fediverse. In the beginning, not everything is easy and obvious, but if you put enough heart and effort into it, it pays off in the future.

30k is small compared to Reddit, or Twitter, or Facebook, but it's very large compared to what's necessary to keep a space lively and engaging.

And on that front, there is such a thing as too big. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands of active users all engaging with a single topic stop being, well, engaging, and start becoming white noise generators: See a post, comment on the post, never have anyone read your comment because 20,000 other people have also done the same. That kind of environment just turns us into consumers of media, rather than social beings, and is just fundamentally kind of bad for us.

We have enough passive, unidirectional media we consume. Spaces like this are better when they're not one of them.

I've tried lemmy.world, Beehaw and Kbin. Kbin is by far the closest experience to Reddit as you can get (That I have tried)

I’ve registered on and experimented with a handful of fediverse instances, apps, etc this week and really keep coming back to Kbin.social as my main point of entry. With the progressive web app on my phone and iPad I’m having a similar experience to Apollo, and really liking watching this community (and Lemmy) grow. Glad to be here with you all, let’s keep this excitement going!

Not a kbin user but love how I can hang out with y'all just the same :D

That's basically a stadium full of people. Well except that most people here probably have never seen a stadium from the inside.

Nerds.

Enough to get some balls rolling, and possibly broken.

It's strange, because Reddit changes so slowly that I've forgotten how much discussion used to take place. This platform actually has people engaging in conversation and it's awesome.

So how do we new users help keep kbin alive? What are the hosting costs and what do we need to do to stay adfree or at least prevent long-term enshittification now?

thanks for making this possible @ernest

I’m happy to see the fediverse growing nicely!

I like it here! I'm glad to see so many people!

I joined Kbin.social four days ago, and I'm already having a great time! 😃 Excited to see what the future holds for this project!

I'm one of them!

I'm so happy to have learned so much about the Fediverse and its communities in the past week. A big thanks to the admins and developers who have put in all the hard work.

It is great here! I love how much engagement there is. It doesn't feel as if I'm yelling into the wind anymore

Seriously loving kbin so far

This is exciting! It's like being a pioneer on the "new" internet.

being on here made me realize of what has been missing from reddit for years now. This is a refreshing site, hopefully it continues to grow.

First day it's been usable for me! Grabbed some niche mags and trying to populate. Really enjoying the UI. Brings me back.

I joined on Sunday. Took a few days to figure out how to do things. But I haven't opened Relay since then. Loving it here.

I remember back in the day when reddit was like this, fun, high effort discussions, even with people complaining about how confusing reddit was to use.

And may it keep growing!

For 30k monthly users some magazines that seem to be popular for most people (gaming, pcgaming) seem awfully dead

This is awesome !