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stopthatgirl7

@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social

Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@stopthatgirl7
Bookwyrm: stopthatgirl7@bookwyrm.social

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stopthatgirl7,
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So they’re getting rid of coins and awards, but don’t have any kind of replacement actually planned yet?

They should have held off until they knew what the replacement would be. As it is, they’re yanking something that made Reddit unique for…what, exactly?

stopthatgirl7,
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Iirc, you can follow them from lemmy. Kbin will let you interact because they show up in a special “microblog” area, but I’m not sure how lemmy handles it.

stopthatgirl7,
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Reddit is about to turn into an even bigger mess.

stopthatgirl7,
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R/pics is also refusing to go down without a fight, and I’m kind of loving watching all this from the sidelines.

Reddit already got caught using ChatGPT to astroturf in posts supporting the admins, so I wonder if some of the people the mods mentioned popping in for drama are actually ChatGPT.

stopthatgirl7,
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Never underestimate the power of spite.

stopthatgirl7,
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The Cyberpunk 2077 mods are as well.

stopthatgirl7,
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R/pics is going Full Petty, and it’s amazing.

stopthatgirl7,
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They really are just bungling this completely.

stopthatgirl7,
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You make a very good point.

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I really just do not get why he thinks Elon Musk has it right idea, only isn’t going far enough. And it’s the board has just decided in for a penny, in for a pound and are determined to stick with him even if Reddit burns to the ground. I wonder what metrics they’re seeing that we aren’t, besides dollar signs.

stopthatgirl7,
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I think this is a really good analogy for what Reddit is becoming and why most folks are staying there…for now:
Reddit is a Dying Mall

stopthatgirl7,
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To be fair, if it wasnt for the blackout it wouldnt have given me the motivation to finally move on to kbin.

Absolutely same here. Because I use Mastodon a lot, I heard about kbin when it first came out, and poked over to look at it, but decided it was a bit too empty and rough around the edges, and stuck with Reddit. Then came the Blackout, and I went ahead and made an account.

As Reddit gets more enshittified and kbin and lemmy get more polished and active, we’ll start seeing a bigger shift.

stopthatgirl7,
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I think a LOT of folks overlook point 2. Kbin.social was a halting mess for a few days during the Blackout, because they had to enable Cloudflare to keep the servers from imploding on themselves. There still aren’t that many kbin instances yet, and more instances is how you handle large influxes. The platform needs time to stabilize before large groups of Redditors come over.

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