I feel good on kbin
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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We feel good thar you're here :)
Same. I've been on Reddit for almost 12 years and for so long now, every time I post or comment I go through a several-minute-long phase of "Ugh no one needs to hear from my stupid arse on this topic" and "Jesus Christ what a stupid ass comment..." Twitter I've been on years also but I barely use because it was going down the shitter long before Space Karen got his hands on it.
Been here in the Fediverse on Mastodon and Kbin for a few weeks now and it's like going from gas station sushi that may be fresh that day to a high end sushi shop with a great omakase. Reddit still has some subs that, in my own realm of interests, haven't picked up yet here in the Fediverse, but even just over the last 3 weeks the changes and increase in content has been very noticeable.
What I look forward to the most is when different interest groups start federating their own instances, like startrek.website is doing already. It takes time for these communities to grow, but I'm sure that in time decentralization is going to do wonders for them. :)
I've been commenting on (fediverse twitter equivalent) mastodon posts on kbin, with my kbin account, because mastodon is also federated with kbin.
Sure, the fediverse is fragmented, but it's also far more connected.
TIL there's someone working on federating wordpress with mastodon. That means we'll soon be able to 'boost'(retweet) a wordpress article on The Rules of Acquisition on mastodon with a kbin account and have lemmy users comment on it with a Quark gif they found on pixelfed(instagram equivalent) or a video from peertube (youtube equivalent).
Honestly, it feels a bit like we've been robbed all these years, commenting on screenshots of tweets you can't easily copy paste or snapchat videos that barely load in the janky reddit videoplayer. That and switching between 5 different messenger apps, because these greedy cunts refuse to allow you to send a message from insta to whatsapp, because it might mean you spend 5 seconds less looking at ragebait content surrounded by ads.
Same here! Been here since the blackout started, and it's been a fantastic community.
Happy to see it!! I'm enjoying my new home, and welcome others to do the same
Same here, lurked for a couple of days before making an account. Seems like a decent place to hang while doomscroll on the toilet.
Seems like a decent place to hang while doomscroll on the toilet.
I feel this comment.
I tried a few different places, but kbin just felt 'right' to me. Happy to be here with you all!
And it feels good to be one of them!
kbin definitely feels more... idk polished? compared to Lemmy. Lemmy feels like a proof of concept, while kbin feels like effort was actually put into it's UI. I bounce between both, but I certainly prefer kbin.
Squabbles feels even more polished.
@ripcord Squabbles is very slick. I think it does a great job of meeting its mission statement of being a cross between reddit and twitter. I think if it can scale well (it's still primarily a one-person effort I believe) it has a shot at being a serious reddit/twitter competitor. And its user interface feels modern, whereas both lemmy and kbin feel like they're a generation behind in terms of UX. (I know many ex-redditors prefer the old.reddit.com look & feel by the way, which is probably why they'd more likely to be drawn to the current crop of threadiverse sites, but the casual user is more likely to be drawn to something like squabbles.)
It's nice here. :)
Performance seems to not be an issue as well.
I really like kbins layout/structure, it's like a mix of reddit and twitter and with some optimization could really be something special.
Kbin has been great so far, massive props to the developers who are keeping this place running under a crushing influx of new people.
exciting to see kbin grow. it's really starting to get cozy here. not quite matching how i used to feel on reddit, but definitely starting to feel like home. I'm glad to see that more people are joining.
is the lemmyverse also similarly growing?
Lemmy.world topped 70,000 active users yesterday. It was a 40% growth in 12 hours, so pretty crazy. If you go there right now you can tell the servers are under heavy load.
reddit has 55+ million daily active users, just some food for thought
That's true, but I would just point out that the nice thing is you are not limited to kbin. I found the United Kingdom community on the Lemmy 'Feddit' instance. There isn't a United Kingdom magazine here, so I just subscribed to the Feddit one, via Kbin. Seems to be working pretty seamlessly.