I made my home here permanently now. It seems like such a friendlier place but how are you all doing?
i havent been active here for weeks, months maybe, but before i was arguably one of the most active on the site during and after the reddit stuff. i do miss making scripts and styles for kbin, the feeling of community, and the urge to create content. coming back i see a lot of activity died off, expectedly, but there is a tight-knit but welcoming community that has formed and it’s nice too see. does feel a bit empty though?
Miss the niche, enjoying it otherwise. Easier to name and shame the fascists and the tankies and just chill with people in discussion about media or what have you
Absolutely love it here. Kbin is awesome, and I love the fediverse. I’m way more about content creation here than I was on reddit because I want to be part of this. @ernest keeps making it better too.
I love interacting with all the instances and also I love the access to Mastodon content. I was never on Twitter or Mastodon before but now I follow these cool people I found from my community microblogs.
I never run out of internet, the fediverse has all I need. Yet, I feel more productive irl than I used to be.
A search result took me to reddit last week and was shocked by how many bots, shills, and just how much general anger and fighting is over there. Also they seem to have more dumb or trolling people than I remember.
That reddit blackout did me a huge favour. Never going back. The future is federated.
Haven’t even directed my browser to reddit since migrating to kbin in June, but it’s never fulfilled the same dopamine hit for me. I’ve supplanted my online addiction with YouTube now, which because of what I flit past and what I actually pay attention to has been extremely educational because of the algorithm!
Pretty early on, I ended up becoming the head moderator for a magazine on kbin, which then made me feel an ethical sort of guilt about commenting there anymore, so really the only place I wanted to be part of the dialogue is now gone for me here on kbin. Our magazine has a much larger mirror community on lemmyworld, so our magazine is barely holding on by a thread even after an initial burst of new subscribers. Discussion is almost non-existent in the magazine, and I’m not sure if it’s because we tried to instate common-sense community guidelines early, or if because we missed the momentum of growing userbase after the rexxit since most people migrated to lemmyworld instead of kbin.
I’m not even sure why I keep my account. (I know I sound like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh in this post.)
@HandsHurtLoL wait, are mods not meant to comment? I’m doing it wrong.
Edit: nvm, you’re modding politics, I can see why you’d need to remain neutral for that.
Yeah, it’s a 100% self-imposed moratorium just because I don’t want to appear to have a modding bias. There was a period where I was trying to enliven the community by posting a few articles each day, especially from sources not submitted to our mirror community on lemmyworld, but then my real life job was draining my soul for 3 straight months, so that endeavor fell by the wayside. Also, unless it’s an article dumping on one key player, our user base doesn’t tend to comment on news articles. It’s a weird phenomenon I’ve observed.
I will add though that my hobby communities that I belong to never make it to my feed, which seems to imply that those communities are stagnant, too. I would probably comment more in those spaces, but it’s rare that new threads are created, I guess.
I still comment a fair bit just from sorting by all > new. But yeah we’re still in the early days comment-wise. The magazine I created almost never gets any comments or posts but there are a few lurkers who upvote and it slowly grows.
I’ve recently taken on a couple that were stagnating due to absentee mods and it’s going slowly, but I still think it’s important for kbin to have our own chill communities on these topics rather than outsourcing it all to the lemmys.
You must be doing something right, because I’m pretty sure I noticed your mag in my feed the other day which made me realise it’s active. (I contributed an article but unfortunately it’s on NZ politics because that’s the only one I follow)!
It definitely feels like the kbin hosted magazines that have overlap with Lemmy magazines are struggling to get attention/engagement. I think part of it is just that so many people are over there and don’t look at federated content, so more kbin users don’t bother with contributing to our own magazines.
I’m not sure what the answer is to fix that, or if it’s even something that needs to be fixed since we federation we’re still receiving and engaging in content. Would love to see more activity on our home turf though.
Took me a moment to realize what exodus this was referring to which I guess answers the question. I deleted my fairly old account during the AMA at the beginning and I do not miss it. From time to time I have been back for those specific things that have developed communities that do not really exist on kbin but I’ll never post there again and I probably visit the R site maybe twice a month.
While kbin doesn’t have everything that I hope that it would, so far I find it good and I visit daily.
So these days my only social media, if you call kbin that, are kbin and Mastodon. X, FB, insta, whatever corporate BS are all 0% usage for me now. Very occasionally I view tildes but I don’t even have an account there.
I’ve muted and or blocked about 200 places so far. As long as you don’t go into anything political or religious it’s okay. Of course, just like Reddit, Lemmy is dominated in those categories by extreme leftist authoritarians and edgy atheists
Bruh you literally post edgy inflammatory political comments everywhere. Why are alt-righters hypocrites AND dumbasses?
Edit: ah, shitjustworks poster. It explains everything
