• nevernevermore@kbin.social
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    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.

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        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

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        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.

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          and “Lemmy”

          Also, communists or whatever. Not that I care if people have a particular ideology. But, I just want to shoot the shit about shit. Not get dragged into propagating someone’s manifesto or political treatise.

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            I think this point has been overexaggerated a bit. Sure, the main devs might support the CCP and actively try to silence critisicm about it, but the software is open source and decentralised for exactly this purpose. Anyone can fork it and host it themselves, and users can use any other instance which allows free speech with practically no difference in user experience.

            I think both Kbin and Lemmy are great software, I am using both hoping that at least one of the two ends up becoming popular

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      Making accounts all over the place and talking to myself, shouting into the void like I did in social media from like 1996-2010

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      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.

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      I’ve made accounts on lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca, requested beehaw.org, and here, but probably going to stick with here for UI reasons plus I like the microblogs for things that don’t exactly warrant a post. The Mastodon integration is neat, but I doubt I’ll really use it since I never used Mastodon before.

      Probably going to stick around here and Tildes (though that’s not the fediverse). Subscribed to a bunch of communities in the various lemmy instances before federation was took down for a bit, so hopefully one niche community grows there. Made one of my own for a relatively niche game I play (it’s a decently popular game, but it’s definitely niche).

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        I like the microblogs for things that don’t exactly warrant a post. The Mastodon integration is neat, but I doubt I’ll really use it since I never used Mastodon before.

        Pretty sure you just described the Mastodon integration! 😅

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          Oh damn, really? That’s funny. I thought the microblogs and Mastodon integration just shared the same area, but goes to show how much I know lmao.

    • rgb_leds_are_love@kbin.social
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      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.

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      Jeez, I’m on kbin.social, ramblinreaders (bookwyrm), pixelfed.social, and dmv.community (mastodon). So far I have persuaded 0.0 of my Instagram and Facebook friends to move to ActivityPub instances. :-( Might just be me. I’ve stopped posting on the facebook except for a quarterly post about Mastodon and I deleted my Twitter. I don’t know how fast Insta will reach terminal enshittification, but it seems to be holding on.

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      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).

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          Like another user mentioned- content across the fediverse isn’t federating with kbin.social except in a very limited capacity. This is temporary.

          https://fedia.io/ is another instance of kbin which has a much smaller local population but is federating much more than kbin.social at the moment. You can see posts from lemmy on the front page.

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            Yeah, when you joined a reddit community after the 2010s, most of the popular ones would have some posts as a backlog to jump into. Only very rarely would you get a niche sub that hadn’t had anything posted that week. Kbin’s really just getting started and it’ll take a little while for things to fill out, but I have a lot of hope! The cat and dog photos are starting to roll in already, amyfou is posting regularly to /m/dogs! /m/food has photos and a discussion about cake!