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Madison_rogue

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Reddit refugee...wasting my time at kbin.social now.

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First...Kbin's UI is IIRC currently in its alpha state. This isn't the finished product. Secondly, the UI is setup in the manner old internet forums used to be organized, with some additional tweeks to prioritize boosted and upvoted topics. Finally, this UI may not emulate Reddit in its final upgrade because it's a different kind of social platform.

I'd just ask people to be patient. There has been a huge influx of users to kbin, and lemmy over the course of the past month and the people behind the scenes have been working tirelessly just to keep up with user/server demand.

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Spez wishes he were as nefarious as Arasaka. It's tough being Steve; where even fictional corpos make him look like he's in Romper Room.

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I've been playing it over a year now. Once I was able to snag a PS5 and Playstation put it back in the store I picked it up.

MUCH MUCH better playing than launch...r/cyberpunk2077 used up a lot of salt throughout its tenure as a subreddit. Yet most the extreme hate the game drew was due to the insane promises CDPR made prior to launch. I'm personally not buying the DLC coming out in September until after it's released because of the botched launch, however I do expect it's going to run a lot smoother than the game's launch.

BUT as a base game, if you can pick it up on sale now, by all means I recommend getting it.

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Trust me, before I deleted my account there were so many users in the sub salivating at all the unfolding drama. While they didn't participate in the blackout, I wonder how many migrated to Fedi. Might indicate why there isn't as much activity as I remember.

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feeds that machine like I'm playing Dragon's Lair in the 80's very poorly

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The API pricing would cost him nearly $20 million per month to run his app

I really wish journalists would get this right. I've seen $20 million per month instead of per year more than once.

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On top of that, Reddit hasn't been able to fully integrate Spell's technology since its acquisition, two employees familiar with the matter said.

No time for Reddit to comment because they're working on mod tools....right....RIGHT?

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Although I didn't use your app, Christian. The work you and other devs have done with your 3rd party apps for Reddit was outstanding. Good luck with whatever's over the next horizon!

Sorry things went sour with Reddit, and wish it could have been different.

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It's different, it's not that difficult, only mildly annoying with some compatibility issues for platforms that are still basically in their alpha phase (like kbin).

It's incredibly annoying, and pushes people right back to centralized systems.

Yet the community of active users continues to grow.

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I'm just as old as he is, maybe only a few years younger. I started to learn computers on a Commodore VIC 20 and 64, used tape drives for storage. I entered into BBS near the end of its popularity, however I used chat boards, AOL, and Geocities...old forums as well. I also moderated a forum for a few years on a Star Wars fan site before the admin shut it down and I moved to Reddit.

I have a lot of experience navigating forums as well...Fediverse sometimes takes a little bit more digging to find what you want. The point I was also trying to make is that these platforms are also in their infancy, their alpha programming state. So things will change, the platform will develop. This kind of thing isn't built in a day, yet IMHO it's so much nicer not having ads forced down my throat on desktop every five posts.

If this person doesn't like the experience here, then there's nothing saying he can't go back to Reddit.

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I just find ActivityPub kind of confusing. It works for Mastodon because that's user-centric, and most people only have an account on one site. But the same communities can exist on multiple sites, and it's confusing to navigate all of that.

This sounds like someone who hasn't even tried. These instances aren't difficult to navigate, they're just setup a little differently. It's like refusing to go to another country because they use metric instead of imperial (or vice versa).

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I don't think it's a question of enough people ditching Reddit, but just enough to create and/or provide quality content.

And really that doesn't matter as much as participating in a platform that's free of all the BS Reddit evolved into. Fediverse has a platform free of almost everything long term Redditors came to hate.

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So true...my well thought out comments mostly flew under the radar. Stupid ones, or low effort ones received the most upvotes.

It's such an odd measure, and people in different subreddits were all over the place with their upvotes. I often couldn't make sense out of it.

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What would you do if you had to engage in conversation?

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@shellsharks

You could also add the Artemis mobile app which is in development for kbin. More information here!

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Isn't that going to happen anyways if Reddit doesn't supply better mod tools by midnight tomorrow?

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