I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
Bruh lmfao reddit is tweaking the fuck out now.
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Paging Streisand, paging Barbra Streisand. Your effect has arrived.
Absolutely. It's really quite fascinating, sociologically speaking lol.
Reddit is speedrunning the death of Twitter.
I run the r/kbin subreddit.
I'm just glad I got out and found lemmy
Absolutely wild that they looked at what happened at Twitter, identified all the things that triggered the several periods of mass migration to Mastodon (shutting off api access, policy changes, shutting down conversation about alternatives) and decided to speed run it. Next thing is trying to directly monetise people by giving them a red tick or something.
Reddit is shifting from user-focused to investor-focused and AI-focused. It doesn't matter what users think. They have done their job. They can all literally quit the site today, and it still doesn't sink Reddit's plans. Reddit has no reason to care what any user thinks anymore. Those days are over.
Technically it has kinda worked out for Twitter though. They still have a sizable userbase, its just a dumpster fire now.
Probably depends on how you define success with these things. The valuation of the company is down a significant amount since it was purchased and recent reports had ad revenue also down a significant amount too. Whether the owner cares about those things is probably up for debate, and evidence would suggest he might be looking for something other than money out of it, like influence, or just a play thing. I'm not sure the owners of Reddit are motivated by the same things, I think they just want to be richer. Time will tell I guess, it's difficult to tell the difference between incompetence and intentional acts from the outside.
I mean, there's an argument to be made that reddit was going down this path long before Twitter, what with their hosting and perhaps even promotion of r/t_d
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Used for spam. Right. 🙄
This wild banning of subreddits that promote alternatives to reddit is likely to push a lot of people to leave who may have been on the fence about staying on reddit
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Reddit really hates lemmy since lemmy is practically better than reddit
I tried to register for Kbin and never got the registration email.
Sorry if this is a dumb question - wtf is Kbin? I ass it mentioned on here everywhere, is it another Lemmy instance? I feel out of the loop!
kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
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Could it have gone into a spam folder?
That's crazy. This is the sole reason in decided to create a lemmy account.
That’s crazy lmao, I found out about kbin through all the fiasco and the subreddit called redditalternatives where it was rated very highly, just a few hours ago too
But anyway, hello everyone, been a reddit user since 2013, this seems like a nice place to lose productive hours to
Welcome! I've been here for a few days now and this reminds me of the reddit of old. You'll love it!
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I’m on both beehaw and kbin. I’m still trying to understand kbin. I guess magazines are like communities? But the list of magazines, while long, appears to only be local? How do I see communities on other instances to subscribe to them? Beehaw is more understandable. I can see what instance someone is posting from. I can see and subscribe to communities for other instances. I can select to see all my subscriptions from any instance.
So for now, I’ll keep both my accounts. Let the dust settle. Learn how to drive “this thing” and eventually delete an account from a server that I don’t need. It’ll free up space for someone else.
You can find lemmy communities via the search function. Search with @COMMUNITY@LEMMY-INSTANCE, this produces a magazine that is linked to the community.
I don't think it has communities like Lemmy - it all seems to be kbin.social so it is all local. However, if you head over to Lemmy and locate the communities you want to follow from their big list (like the beehaw.org communities), you can add them to your kbin subscriptions and follow along from kbin. The only difference I've found is that Lemmy community links start with the ! sign, so that has to be changed to @ when you search for the community through kbin.
Edit: I'm keeping my kbin and my sh.itjust.works accounts for now to see which I prefer.
It looks like someone is making an extension to handle subscribing to Lemmy communities easier from kbin. I'm still trying to figure it all out myself though.
That would be great! The easier things are for anyone who migrates the more likely they are to stick around and contribute.
Hahaha oh god this is just... wow...
Hard to believe how different reddit was back in 2010
It is strange that they neither banned Lemmymigration or Reddit alternatives
I haven't been this entertained by reddit shenanigans in a long time tbh
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