How would you explain Lemmy/Kbin to a Reddit person or to a social media person?

Trying to "recruit" more folks in Kbin but I think I lack enough information to describe Kbin effectively.

"It's like Reddit but it's in the fediverse world. It's a new thing, gaining speed fast and it has less chances to get corrupted because of the fediverse thingie compared to Reddit (lol)!"

AgentGrimstone,

To a Redditor: Basically Reddit

To a social media user: Like other platforms except there’s no following and no one looks at who’s posting the content

Tyr_Raidho_Othala,
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Still a bit sad I can’t follow peeps on here. Have to do this on mastodon

yessikg,
@yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You can subscribe to a lemmy user’s rss feed (I know it’s not the same, but close)

Tyr_Raidho_Othala,
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Ok, thanks for the headsup. I will do this then.

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

At least here in kbin I can push a button that sets a user to be followed.

LegionEris,

It’s a federated reddit alternative. The most I’ve ever had to elaborate is to clarify that “federated” basically means “decentralized.” I’ve never tried to explain it to someone who can’t figure it out from that.

altima_neo,
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The federated part is what confused me the most when I was looking into making the switch.

The ideology behind it is simple, but the term “federated” made it sound like some government thing.

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

federations are decentralized

Marin_Rider,

more toxic than reddit these days and that’s saying something.

frankly I’m tired of even mundane, apolitical comments resulting in angry rage filled replies. not as nice a place it used to be

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Peculiar.
I don't see this behavior.

Are you referring to a news or a politic community?

Marin_Rider,

almost any community really if it’s on world. I prefer stick to my home instance

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Peculiar.

I am subscribed to some .world's but I don't recall such behavior.

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

does using an analogy about an unrelated topic work

Damaskox,
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What do you mean?

sour, (edited )
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Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

My guess?

Maybe.
Should look into the analog first before being certain though.

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