2y ago

I definitely think r/gaming has the biggest banger of a privated notice

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Another subreddit posted the date he said it, which I think added to it - He said it on April 19th of this year - https://www.gq.com/story/steve-huffman-reddit-public-tiktok-ban - that aged poorly very very quickly
- r/agedlikeavocado
  
  You mean m/agedlikeavocado
- I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.
  
  I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.
  Spez: How dare you record a private conversation showing my hypocrisy?!

If this is how the admins choose to act, so fucking be it. I'll deltree my 12 year old account and never go back. As it stands, the fediverse is already my new home, and the users who decide to remain on reddit can explain to all the new users what the fuck went wrong.
- I replaced every comment I had with a rant about how Reddit has become corporate shills and none of their actions are about profitability and all about easing corporations with the ability to targeted advertise to users while being openly hostile to all their volunteer labor and users.
  12 years and 75k of comment karma worth.
- The only people on reddit who are against the blackout are conservative assholes who hate picket lines. They're going to be the majority of remaining users.
  
  Also the people who say "well I'm not using third party apps so who cares anyway"
  The thing they should care about is how reddit has handled this situation. Imagine what nonsense they'll come up with next if they're willing to turf away some of the oldest and most dedicated users
  
  It almost feels like that's by design these days.
  
  Nah I’m “conservative” (at least that’s what they call me on Reddit now), and most of us support this blackout. The site has been hostile to diverse political opinions for a long time. Note how one of the largest subs, r/Politics, remained open the whole time. They are, by every metric, very left wing.
  Don’t let the silly culture war divide us on this one. We all think Reddit has jumped the shark.
  
  JUST LIKE TWITTER! I love that the new internet comes in two flavors, "open source hippie (doesn't work well)" and "vaguely fascist (also doesn't work that well tbh)"

How are y'all spreading yourself out in the fediverse so far? Right now I'm just browsing the front page of kbin and occasionally check in on my feed in mastodon, but I'm yet to find my "niche" communities.
- Already been here in Fediverse for a while (with Mastodon), but kbin is Vulcan's first link aggregation platform in the fediverse.
  Bumpy start was to be expected but so far a very enjoyable experience, also contributed content to magazines.
- There's a general lack of content here - and Ernest has been doing an extremely courageous job of keeping the lights on.
  I guess it's up to us now to start creating content, and improving this site.
- If you're a cat fan, I picked up a few of the more niche cat subs that I enjoyed on Reddit.
  https://kbin.social/m/catloaf
  https://kbin.social/m/floof
  https://kbin.social/m/floaf
  We'd be very happy to see you there! Even more so if you bring content :-)
- I think it'll take a little while but we'll find our niches. I'm finding a few magazines on kbin.social to be really active in and I also got on mastodon.social. I don't think the latter is for me. I need to figure out a little better how federation works then I'm gonna explore more.
  
  I'm struggling to find content. I saw some news about a sports team I follow, Xbox game, or show I'm watching- I would typically go to reddit, easily find a sub, and all of the content and comments I want. Now when I look on kbin or lemmy or beehaw ( I don't even know the difference), I could be in an instance? where there is isn't Xbox content but maybe another instance has tons of content. It's a bit confusing.
- Today was the first day I opened kbin and it felt like... not home, per se, but... familiar? I suddenly realized I'm genuinely enjoying this new spot!
  
  I like kbin a lot already too. I like the highly functional feel. It's close enough to Reddit that I hope it draws in more users. I found it a lot more approachable than Mastodon, and "Lemmy" just doesn't have a nice ring to it IMO.
  
  Well this ernest dude seems like he's reacting quickly to criticisms. The NSFW posts were showing full pictures and there was a complaint to have the preview blurred out. Took less than 12 hours for him to implement that so that's a plus
- One of my biggest challenges is getting the 'front page' to fill up with the kind of thing I'd get on r/all. I think at the moment it only shows posts from the subs I subscribe to. But I can easily see how Kbin could replace Reddit (im not going back).
  
  The reason it seems like that is because this kbin instance (kbin.social) isn't federated right now because of heavy traffic. So you'll only see magazines that were created here. As soon as the restrictions are relaxed you'll see other instances in the default feed. Or you could sign up for a different kbin instance like fedia.io which are currently still federated.
  Even so, the other instances that are working as intended don't quite have that r/all feel yet just because there aren't nearly the same number of users in all of the fediverse as there were on reddit. It'll take time for the content to catch up.

You either die as a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
Adios Reddit.

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