Wanted to say it’s pretty cool to see how fast this place has grown in just the past few days and it’s starting to really feel like what Reddit used to be in the good ol days.
I’m a desktop only kid of person, and so far the experience is really pretty fantastic. It feels like the fun internet of about 2012 or so.
I’m still crazy new here, but why can’t we browse comments by Top? I’m wondering if a choice was made not to allow that (the way that Mastodon made some choices not to support some Twitter features), or if it’s hard because of federation or something. That’s the only thing I’m still jarred by here.
I think it’s mostly because kbin is incredibly new. Ernest didn’t expect to have this amount of traffic on his hands. Things will catch up
Try asking in /m/kbinMeta - it’s a fair question. Maybe the dev just hasn’t implemented it yet
Same. Hope it continues to grow.
It’s nice to not be advertised to. It’s nice to be on a (group of) platform(s) where connecting people is a goal rather than merely a side effect of a particular way of generating profit. I have trouble talking to people IRL, so Reddit was where I actually connected to people for the most part. Not at all healthy now that I’m writing it out, but it is what it is.
And I’ve seen a higher proportion of “essays” on here than on Reddit. Definitely starting to feel like home. I just hope that more Redditors agree.
It’s definitely capturing the old electricity. I like it a lot. Finding a good client for using on mobile definitely helps ease the transition, too
what client? only one I’ve seen so far is that closed/full beta :-(
currently using a webapp which isn’t terrible but isn’t that great either
I mean aside from not being able to collapse comments, the webapp is not that bad. Although I confess Jerboa is much much better which is tempting me to switch to lemmy.
https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy
It’s in TestFlight currently but it’s getting there
+1 for Memmy!
I’m also pretty excited for Artemis, which is…ahem…inspired by Apollo (which was my exclusive portal to Reddit since it launched in 2017)
Still waiting for Memmy to work with Kbin 😕
At least the web app for kbin works reasonably well. It’s a lot easier to get around on than the Lemmy mobile site.
I might not 100% grasp how this all works yet, but I signed up for lemmy.world and I’m talking to you here on Memmy. Is kbin not supposed to be connected to other instances?
It absolutely is connected! I’m replying to you from kbin.social.
But kbin is different software, and will need a different app to access.
I agree. Mostly using it on a mobile but works ok but specifically the people are great.
Just needs a bit more content every day and we’re good tbh. Also I miss my video game subs like MonsterHunterMeta…
I’m still getting used to it. Not that bad, a bit slower and I believe we still have no video support. Still, I don’t intend to go back to reddit. I’m trying Memmy and Mlem apps interchangeably and I’m pretty happy with it. I need to participate more though, not just being s lurker. Hopefully saving stuff, checking what you liked, etc will be available soon. For the time the app devs had on this, what we’re getting is amazing. This will be in much better shape than reddit very soon.
Agreed. I’m reminded of the Digg exodus from years ago which was when I joined reddit initially. Kind of sad how far it’s fallen from the 2010/2011 days.
I found an equivalent sub to the game I play here, that had since closed on Reddit. I was really pleasantly surprised. That makes it feel like home. Sure, not as much traffic there yet but it’s all seemingly setup.
What was the game?
Based on his subscriptions, I’d assume guildwars2@kbin.social.
Idk if I’m going crazy but this feels exactly like reddit now. At first it was confusing but I don’t see any difference now?
Kbin is to reddit as mastodon is to twitter, IMO.
New here. Can’t figure out how to reply to the OP itself. Help?
For some reason, the box to reply to OP is at the bottom of a thread.
Not sure why it wouldn’t be at the top, but it is how it is.
I might look into whether I can fix this using a custom theme 🤔
Kbin enhancement script got you covered.
I wonder how all of this will be next year.
Do we have any of those !RemindMe bots yet? Haha
Oh man. Some of us are never going to get some of the reminders we set.
Are bots exempted from the new API costs? There might be less of them around too
Yes, so long as they are non-commercial and they stay under the usage limit (which was also increased).
