Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]
This got me to check out Reddit alternatives… Landed on kbin… so here we go?
Same. It got me to oficially jump over to Lemmy. Reddits been veering downhill and always wanted an alternative. Kind of glad all this got more people to Lemmy etc.
I landed on lemmy first, then I found out about kbin over there. I’m glad for the Fediverse because I don’t have to lose the ability to continue to participate in the community and not be tied to one website. Now, if they could figure a way to import the subscribed list from my old account, that would be icing on the cake.
Same here! Just so I understand, it doesn’t matter if you choose kbin or Lemmy, the content is the same? What about Mastadon? Is that also combined into this same network?
They all implement ActivityPub which is just the protocol used to move everyone’s posts and such around to any other server that’s supposed to receive it. So yeah, you can use Mastodon to follow Lemmy or kbin magazines. You can also do the opposite where you follow Mastodon users from Lemmy/kbin. As long as the blog uses ActivityPub federation, you can ingest that content in to whatever other compatible service you want.
I will say things get a little weird if you follow on a service that presents that information in a drastically different way, but it is doable.
I feel old and out of touch. 15 years of being Reddit only, and now I have no idea what half of those words mean or how these services work. Hah, time to do some learning again
I’m still trying to figure that one out lol
Also, what’s boost?
I’m here for the same. Let’s hope this place has what we’re looking for, eh?
Yeah but if we don’t see a community/magazine we want (that exists on reddit), do we take it upon ourselves to start it or do we wait for the mods of the reddit sub to create it?
@ADrunkenSaylor
There’s no guarantee they’re going to come over, so I’d say make it yourself. You can always add them in the future if they do make the switch and still want to be a mod.
I for one had modded for r/beards and r/moustache and decided to make a moustache community over on lemmy.ml. Anyone is welcome to join!! Moustache community on Lemmy.
So far I’m in the wait and see camp, especially until the apps actually shut down on the 30th. In an optimistic view where this site takes off (I don’t even know what that means in a federated situation. Aren’t the instances fracturing communities? Posts transfer but it doesn’t seem comments do…), moderation of huge magazines would be incredibly time consuming and difficult, I imagine.
Admittedly the system is a bit confusing as far as UX goes. I’m a fairly nerdy gal and am familiar with servers and software packages and “instances”, and I’m still having issues wrapping my head around the UX.
For example. I’m on Kbin, federated with Lemmy instances. Which is working obviously. But how do I go about discovery of networks and instances and communities within those instances from Kbin? That seems possible but to an uninitiated user, not exactly the simplest thing. None of this is a dealbreaker for me, but what about others? Am I the only one not quite understanding how it all slots together interface wise?
No, you are definitely not the only one. I explored this style of social media for the first time several months ago because of what was going on with Twitter.
I got confused pretty quickly and ultimately decided it would be easier to just quit Twitter and use Reddit only, even though I would be giving up things I liked about Twitter.
But now we’re here, so I’m trying again. Still confused tho
At least we have a reason to push through that confusion and try to make the best of what we figure out now.
I wish you luck!
Yeah that’s a really good point. Hopefully we (or someone) can get this figured out with a good solution
Also +1 for that marathon pic
This post can be very handy.
Do you really want a ton of super mods here too?
I’m new too but I thought I read boost is like a retweet