As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new “home” and I hope I’m not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we’re bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don’t want this to become a carbon copy of reddit. From the interface to the group dynamics, please lets us now…

What can we do NOT to ruin kbin for you?

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    1 year ago

    I’d wager keeping our narwhals and bacons out of this is probably a good first step? I’m here to join Kbin not turn Kbin into reddit 2.0. Hope we can get some real feedback on this one from people who have been here for a minute. lol

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        To some extent, but I agree with @ski. I was on Reddit pre-Digg and did my fair share of baconing at midnight with France. But that said, I don’t really want Reddit 2.0.

        To agree with you, though, @NumbersCanBeFun, I think we can show Reddit that we don’t need their platform by creating something new and unique here that fits our needs. The fediverse is a pretty cool place, and we can create a section the way we want it. Let’s make it awesome on our own terms, not beholden to any ideas of “how things have always been done”.

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          You know what, I’m open to both those ideas. Change is just as good. Maybe I got a little to hyped up on trying to make a point 🍻

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                This whole exchange is reminding me of how reddit used to be. I didn’t realize how far the site had fallen.

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                  Do you remember how proper grammar used to be a big deal and any typos in the post title would get eviscerated in the comments?

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        Honestly large scale things like this sort of organically self organize and evolve. I’m sure some people will be the old Reddit people, some will be new, etc etc. I started using reddit around a year after its launch and was super active. Over the years my interaction with reddit became mindlessly browsing. Kbin has been fun because I’m way more motivated to be active as it’s a new, exciting community.

        I think we should all just be friendly and let things go how they go. That’s pretty much what’s going to happen anyway. I like that people here generally seem nice and thoughtful though.

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          Agreed. I’ve found in general the fediverse is made up of people who are usually nice and thoughtful. There are dark corners to be sure, but we’re trying to create a place that is welcoming and without the toxicity that exists elsewhere.

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      It’s been super refreshing to have some change, before I’d check comments on Reddit I could generally guess the top 3 comments and be right almost always. Take into account that sometimes things get crossposted and reposted and it starts to show you how unoriginal it all can be.

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        What do you mean, the same song lyrics or an endless string of “nice” after the number 69 show up is sooooooooo funny the umpteenth time.

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    What can we do NOT to ruin kbin for you?

    Just a bit of patience and understanding. The software is a prototype. It’ll fall over a lot.
    Not every question needs an answer today.

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    My thoughts on this is that things shouldn’t be changed to conform with how Reddit did things.

    I saw people saying that default settings need to be changed because that’s what Reddit people would expect by default and it’s like … How about no?

    I’m part of the migration (Saturday), but I don’t want this to become Digg3.0! I want it to be better and its own thing.

    Now, those settings I was talking about (basically who/what you follow is shown to others by default), I fully think those settings should be changed by default, but not because that’s how reddit did it, but because it’s a good idea (imho).

    We’ve also got to keep in mind that KBin is basically a one man operation right now and not a company with 2000 people and expectations need to go through that filter first. This site is fucking amazing with that in mind and I think if you just look at it as Reddit 2.0 it’s easy to forget the achievements that Ernest has made.

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    AFAIK /kbin is pretty new, even more so than Lemmy, I’ve been here for some days and the explosion of users is honestly insane, but also pretty exciting to see.
    Also the users that have migrated so far have been “high quality” and really friendly, in my opinion users like you, like us, are pretty much the base of what /kbin will be.
    We have to keep in mind that this site is not Reddit and probably never will be, but that’s what I like the most about it.

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        Yeah, more or less. I’ve been on the fediverse for a little bit, but about a month ago it was mainly just the dev Ernest posting to himself. The fact that this is still in prototype phase and working as well as it does is frankly amazing. Timing wasn’t great with reddit imploding now, since it’s a bit trial by fire, but I’m really excited about where we’re going.

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        Considering that we were able to make 3 letter usernames, we’ve gotta be in the first few thousand.

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            I spent like an hour going back and forth about whether to keep the original spelling, number, and multiple underscores in my old name because that was just how my main always was and I haven’t had a non-numeric handle in decades.

            Suddenly realized the sheer specificity of it meant googling my user could easily find the most ancient stuff, got creeped out, dropped it immediately. Now all anyone who tries to find me is getting is Victorian era poetry and pictures of plants.

            Become unsearchable.

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    • Stop asking for email at registration time, if you can (it’s not hard to spin up new email addresses, so it really solves nothing).
    • Avoid all forms of censorship. Free speech is sometimes painful…that’s the price we pay for it. This is first and foremost.
    • I’m OK with moderate advertising…you gotta keep the lights on.
    • Keep the UI simplistic.
    • Robust APIs.
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      Avoid all forms of censorship. Free speech is sometimes painful…that’s the price we pay for it.

      No. Not worth the pain for me. If this place gets infested by Nazis and alike, i’ll be gone in no time.

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    I’m not a pre-migration keebinetter, but wanted to point out that kbin was published as a very early version of itself about a month ago by the user /u/ernest, Might not find many pre-migration keebinetters.

    Also lmao love that the “keebinetter” sticked!