People are not moving over here for convenience, it's new young software with many flaws and missing features. I think most of us are just looking for a brighter future of social networks, one not dictated by a megacorporation and instead segmented more under our individual control. It's impossible for this to match reddit in everything since that's a company with thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, but perfect shouldn't be an enemy of good.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Also the Kbin web UI is already better than the official Reddit Mobile app or site, IMO.
It's no Relay for Reddit, but I'm cautiously optimistic that in six months there will be a bunch of third party apps to choose from.
I'm with you. Plus I really miss the pre-socmed days of the internet where it was just specialized forums. Being early at kbin kinda sorta maybe feels similar.
Kmoon (3rd party app) is in development
edit: called Artemis now after a community vote
As someone who just stumbled onto this a few minutes ago, I just want to add that it’s now called Artemis (rip Apollo)
you left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off.
I left reddit because reddit sucks and I've been looking for an alternative for a long while now.
We are not the same.
It's showerthoughts. not supposed to be taken entirely literally!
my post is in the format of a meme, it's not supposed to be taken seriously. but yeah it's pretty ironic.
my meme game is obviously severely lacking.
Not understanding every meme? Believe it or, straight to jail.
I haven't deleted my account or anything, but after RIF Is Fun closes it's doors, I will likely be on Reddit very seldomly if at all. Most of my browsing of Reddit has been via RIF since 2015. The official app has always been a slow, glitchy, ad-riddled piece of shit. RIF was like using a mobile-friendly version of the old layout and was 1000% more stable. So instead of finding a way to integrate something similar into the official app and fixing their bloatware, they decide to kill third party apps altogether. You'd think EA owned Reddit by the way they're going about things these days.
No skin off my nose if Reddit ceases to function. The Reddit that exists today bares very little resemblance to the website I fell in love with 14 years ago.
Maybe the lack of third-party apps is the friends we made along the way?
i left because 3rd party apps were being killed off, I'm staying because this is a superior community
I left because the way they went about killing third party apps. Bad faith notification, shit communication, and slandering Christian.
I left because having that sort of person at the helm is just disconcerting.
Same, they could have easily bundled in third party apps as only something you can use with Reddit gold or something, and I would have happily done that.
To be fair, kbin on a mobile browser is already leagues above the official reddit app
I saw some roadkill on the way to work today that looked and functioned better than the official app.
I tried the official app an hour ago. Now I'm on Firefox mobile. This is accurate.
About the only thing that sucks is the comments being separated by page. Also, I don't seem to get notification when someone replies to a comment/post.
So the only thing lacking here is just the user numbers
I had that problem too but turns out I didn't turn on notifications in settings. Maybe tweaking that might help?
I have explored all the settings options and I don't see an option to turn on notifications. Where?
To me, I loved using Relay for Reddit, but them killing the 3rd party apps in itself wasn't why I left. The whole situation just showed that Reddit doesn't care about the community, they just care about profit, and they'll happily shaft the users and prominent members of the community.
This, I was all going with the flow with the blackout (my 3rd party app in particular is apparently "in talks" so good chance won't get shut down), but after the AMA I just left. I spend time here and on tildes, fulfills my need to be social on the internet.
Hell, before the AMA I was willing to pay a sub to use an app on my phone, not anymore . . . after all the shit of the past decade I am just done, and I think there are thousands like me.
Even then, the way they went about getting that profit was so sleazy to me. I don't like it, but I get a company needing to make a profit. But there's ways of doing that where you can still put the community first.
Fine, it just means things go back to the pre-mobile days when you did everything on your PC.
The reasons we used third-party apps were to avoid ads, bots, big brother. I'm personally looking forward to the fediverse making an app though.
We didn't leave because we wouldn't have them any longer, we left because we saw it as unfair how third-party developers have been treated and how the content from users was exploited.
Either way, many people are already working on Kbin and Lemmy apps, some of which already exist.
It's about locking down the API so that they can harvest user personal data with their own app. It's about the open hate from spez, hoffman, admins toward the community.
It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it's not subject to Reddit's bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren't going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.
Kbin's got potential. Reddit... not so much.
I'm not having a go or anything. I'm loving this whole transition period. I do miss my boost app though! Does jerboa connect to kbin? or just lemmy? I should go find that out for myself. brb. Also realise that others are most likely being worked on.
Just lemmy, far as I know. There's one in development called Kmoon, but I can't currently pull up a link and it's still in development anyway. I do really miss Boost, though. The tagging system was both fun and useful, and color-coding the threads made them SO much easier to follow if I had to scroll back up for something right quick
I also find it interesting that lack of mod tools is a big complaint of reddit but it seems that lack of mod tools is immediately an issue on kbin/lemmy.
But the decisions made on one vs the other are moving in the opposite directions.
This is a new town, not a razed town.
Remember that we didn't leave because there were no moderation tools to begin with, but rather because existing ones would die and new ones wouldn't be able to flourish.
The Threadiverse (what people like to call the combination of Kbin + Lemmy) is growing day-by-day, more communities are arriving here, and with that more developers will take interest in developing tools for use on the Threadiverse, but also the Fediverse as a whole.
After all, there's already mastodon instances (like https://botsin.space) which are purely for hosting bots. I presume that instances like this will soon also be made specifically for Kbin/Lemmy bots.
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