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Reddit Migration @kbin.social

Jcb2016 @kbin.social

1y ago

Reddit Migration

The real #redditmigration starts the 30th or the 1st, I hope lemmy and kbin are ready for the traffic!

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reddit about to find out
- reddit will be fine lmao people thinking reddit is actually doing to die down because of other, subpar websites
  
  it will be fine in exactly the same way Twitter is fine ... by making up win conditions after the fact
  
  Realistically, this will end like Twitter migration. Some going to move, but most of them still using Twitter (or Reddit).
  
  Expecting that reddit will go down within weeks: Unreasonable.
  Expecting that reddit will have a slow and painful death and that spez completely fucked up the upcoming IPO and the long term future of the platform? Absolutely reasonable.
  
  I see the Reddit shills are coming in in force
  
  Those other, subpar sites like Slashdot and Digg.

Unfortunately as we have approached July 1st I have noticed more and more hostile users on kbin. Obviously I've only been using kbin for a little bit but within the past couple days I am starting to see mele users who come online just to start arguments, which is one of the main things I didn't like about reddit's userbase.
For example, today I was name pinged several times by a user who had "born and bred slur" in their profile. They kept name pinging in an attempt to start an argument. I haven't seen this at all over on tildes
- @pizzarolls@kbin.social this is expected, that is why fediverse is discussing about moderation all the time.
  
  I just home we can come up with some sort of solution to keep the discussion higher quality, I don't want a new reddit because reddit had a lot of problems.
- I can’t speak for Kbin but I’ve had only really positive interactions on Lemmy
  
  The Eternal September hasn't really even started yet.

Maybe the bulk of users have already created accounts.
- I agree I think the majority of those who were going to move on have do so already. In time as the Fediverse grows it will pull others in.
  
  There'll be another wave. It'll be significant, by current threadiverse standards, but not by Reddit standards. Servers will strain some people will be unreasonable about the degraded experience. Some others won't be. Resources will catch up as new instances come online. Things will relatively quickly return to organic growth.
  
  I was holding out hope up until now. Just recently showed up on the memmy app (TestFlight app for iOS) to try and replace Apollo. UI is ok so far. Lots to learn it seems but hoping this scratches the same itch.

Frankly I now don’t really care what happens to Reddit. I was an 11 year account there but the second I moved over here I kind of stopped caring. I think it would benefit people to not be so emotive over social media.
That said I still muscle memory type Reddit into my search box… maybe it will take some time to get over

I'm still a little confused on how the whole fediverse thing works. For example, what is analogous to a sub in a fediverse?
- On Lemmy, they're styled as "Communities"; on kbin, they're named "Magazines"; Friendica calls them "Forums". In most of the rest of the Fediverse, they're called "Groups".

They are not, but it's better than nothing.

what the couple hundred people moving over? lol

I hope so as well.

Exciting times.

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