1y ago

One of the advantages of being on Kbin is that you can scroll All by New, and see genuinely interesting content

On Reddit, browsing r/All by new would show so much spam, it was really pointless if you just were looking for content. One relied on reddit's algorithm to show you new stuff you hadn't actively searched for. The nice thing about Kbin, and the threadiverse in general, is that you can browse m/All by New as see genuinely interesting posts.

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I use this to come across magazines or communities i might not have thought to search for and add those I find interesting. After scrolling a little bit I switch to the subscribed list. This works well for me at the moment.
- Same! Have found several interesting magazine like that.
- Yes definitely! I've also been doing that

I'm afraid that's just because spammers, trolls and other bad agents haven't discovered this platform yet and/or there's not enough people here for spamming to be worth it. The current selection of users who were likely to join also probably has an effect. Once (if?) this grows and reaches more general population, I'd bet it will look similar to /r/all/new.
Edit: It's a kind of paradox. You want more users on the platform so that there's enough content and more niche communities can form but that inevitably makes the place less pleasant. Although this moment is still very, very far for kbin. I mean Reddit became absolutely humongous in the last several years.
- We have to learn and evolve. If we just keep making the same mistakes over and over again with social media, we are just gonna see Reddit after Reddit get shit down the toilet by asshole CEOs. I want to see lemmy/kbin grow, but I want the platform to evolve with the growth to stave off the bullshit that reddit allowed in for the sake of turning a profit.
- Reddit has like, several hundred million users.
  I think back in 2012, when it had about 50 million users it was already starting to feel really crowded. So at less than 200k users in the fediverse I'd say that worry is far off.

Totally agree! I never touched new on Reddit.

I used to browse r/all/rising and sometimes peeked at /new. It was made somewhat bearable because I used rif and filtered out subreddits like crazy.
I just checked my rif settings export. I had 906 subreddit filters.
(And one domain filter: battleforthenet.com.)

It’s how I find interesting magazines and Lemmy communities. Browse new for a while with federation on and see what interesting things come past on the stream.
- what's the difference? I mean is there a setting I need to change or is it by default on?
  
  In the kbin web interface, I click the federation button (triangle icon) in the sidebar and a federation status On/Off option appears, and yes, the initial setting (default) is On.

Agreed. I'm finding the same on Lemmy.world (when it works) and tildes. All great communities!

Yea :) like a few times in new i saw stuff that seemed like they miiight be ads in disguise but it seems to happen a lot less than reddit (where new posts couldve been several reposts and bot nonsense.)

by /m/All you mean the front page, right? Couldn't find any magazine named "All"
- Yeah for me all is just the homepage of https://kbin.social/ with federation ON
- You can sort the posts by new

Yet to find interesting content.
- Given the volume and breath of content going past in the federated feed, that may say more about you?
  
  I wouldn't say necessarily more, since fediverse lacks tools to find interesting content in the first place, and everything is still in the wild west area, but certainly, if you dislike a book, movie or a dish, it tells something about you. It would be however prudent to not make a boatload of assumptions about the consumer.
- Well a lot of stuff posted on here seem tech related (or cat related lol) so i get if youre not into that maybe doesnt seem so interesting. But it can help if you look in magazine for your country/city maybe. Or for your interest. Or even something like cooking or news if you like news?
  
  This sounds more like you're only looking at subscribed magazines... I see way, way, more stuff than cats and tech. There is also an infinite number of fricken anime posts out there that I can't block fast enough.
  I see very few cats posts in Allnew, but it's a link aggregation social site and majority of the early adopters here are tech nerds so of course there is a lot of those articles posted.
  
  Well a lot of stuff posted on here seem tech related
  I am subscribed to the tech-related magazines, but their content is only a speckle of what is posted on reddit, even after a bunch of tech people migrated. And the discussion is also less interesting, on Reddit there usually was a number of lengthy posts explaining the background and commenting on the news, not much here. At least in the magazines I subscribed to.
  Most stuff on the main page is just circlejerk about how kbin/lemmy has is so much better (community, content, discussions) than Reddit. I don't find that interesting at all.
  So far it feels like the fediverse is full of immature children who are more interested in validating their own opinions rather than deep and lengthy discussions about topics.

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