I’ve said it another thread but moderators need to be patient with all of the new people. I made a post trying to get some questions answered and was shit on by a mod for not knowing the rules. I couldn’t even find the sidebar at that point. If that is the attitude new users are met with when making mistakes then new contributions will be limited.
I really feel like "rules" for different magazines should be lax at first and just take out the obvious scum or completely irrelevant posts. Ease everyone in. There isn't even an actual community in most magazines yet because there's so few people. Let the people come first, then figure out the ins and outs of them.
I don't think quality filters are needed yet as any post is a bit of a miracle
Yeah. Good point. There will be some growing pains and mistakes in posting with all the newbies, like me. I think it will be a slower growth than some Redditors will want, but I was there for over 10 years so I don't mind a little wait. I think it won't be that long and I'm already enjoying discovering different communities.
Reddit lurker checking in. I have a total of 2 posts and 15 comments in 13 years of using reddit. Not sure about using kbin or one of the smaller lemmy instances, but I'm here for now.
Welcome. It’s good to know that your comments won’t get deeply buried in a thread that was posted 15 min ago. It’s still a small community so there’s a great chance of good interaction (at least in my experience using it for a few days now).
Exactly. Maybe I'm sounding awfully optimistic, but I actually enjoy the slow pace here. Posts can be 1 week old and there are still comments popping up after a while. It also makes interactions more meaningful in a way.
welcome, glad to see we have chill people
Reddit lurker commenting. Still not sure about using kbin or a smaller lemmy instance for the long term but for now I’m here!
Hmm, 63 upvotes and two comments… there is certain level of irony here.
The problem is, I never really have anything to say that's worth contributing 😢
Haha, that's kind of the point of it. You would suddenly realised you are not alone in how you think or feel
In that case... How has your day been?
Thanks for asking! I've actually been inventorying my mineral collection today, trying to keep fresh content for my magazine, lol. Minerals@kbin.social Started soaking one of my specimen, to clean the rust off of it.
Now I have some French bread pizza in the oven for dinner.
Have you been having a good day?
That sounds like a pretty solid day! I collected minerals as a kid and recently found a handful in storage. I'd love to get back into it.
My day has been solid. I think I finally organized all my digital files, across everything I own and all services I use. I even made some proper backups. It's a massive source of stress gone so I'm planning to just relax the rest of the day. Oh, and trying to not be too jealous of you for having fresh bread to look forward to, lol.
Good job! That can be a ton of work, and rather tedious. I'm sure it feels much better having it done. I recently went through about 10 years of photos, looking to make prints. Not something I'd suggest putting off for that long, lol. Felt great after it was done though!
The pizza was delicious 😊
That is usually what happens to me. (<-- This is a pretty useless comment as well xD)
I agree, also join me on @Bestof.
That link is malformed - https://kbin.social/m/bestof exists, but when you click that it converts it to https://kbin.social/u/@Bestof@kbin.social that does not. I don't know how to make it not do that.
14:1 upvote to comment ratio on this post as of this comment...um....
That's fairly normal, isn't it?
I'd like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don't behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.
It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2
I'd only made one single post and it had 17 "upvotes" and 2 "downvotes" so the -2 confused me a bit. That's when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn't contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don't understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.
Edit: To be clear while "fake internet points" are not overly important to me. "Reputation" or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.
Seeing -2 made me think "Who have I pissed off?" Till I realised that "Favourites" don't contribute to reputation.
Haven't posted on Reddit since the blackout, and don't intend to. Only reason I'm still lurking is because I'm loosely keeping up on SubredditDrama, and manually deleting my comments and posts.
Developments in lemmy/kbin have been exciting and I've been focusing my time here instead of Reddit. Cake Day is the 26th. I plan on wrapping up my account then. Seems fitting after 11 years.
I'm doing this as well. It helps a lot that the user base is smaller (in a good way) here, which means posting something relevant/valuable has a better chance of being noticed, which in turn makes me want to post more.
Try posting a well thought-out comment in a huge thread on Reddit a couple hours after it was posted... you'll get lost under all the jokes and puns.
Trying. But there is so much fluff and garbage.
Am on it ! Been upvoting from the moment I landed here. So glad to witness and contribute to a watershed moment in the history of reddit and the fediverse!
You are right, I will try.
(First comment ever ;)
It took me a few days to realize that I could comment on threads without getting bombarded by every troll on the internet. The reddit conditioning is hard to break.
Things are much more polite over here, for now, and that's nice.
That kinda comes with smaller communities, I think.
I'm sure toxic people will figure out lemmy eventually too, but for now it's been nice.
The only subreddit I still care about has been private from the start and has between 300-400 people in it who have been randomly invited over time.
Post or comment every week and get kicked.
On the whole, lemmy reminds me of that place a bit since the communities are smaller and idk how to put this but that feels. .. more human?
Lifelong lurker here, you can’t force me to post! Oh, wait… shakes fist
Get out of here with those good ideas
Ok here's my first comment! Enjoying kbin so far and I love that I can interact with lemmy and mastodon as well.
Habitual lurker checking in. On kbin and loving the difference in vibe and waiting patiently for the migration to boost the communities I used to frequent.
I'm trying to boost and upvote as I scroll. I've feel like I've commented more here than I have in the last several years on reddit.
Tried to make a beer- themed magazine but I have no clue what I'm doing.
Beer is always good! Source: I'm German
Posting as I was once a Reddit lurker who originally made my Reddit account while waiting for my baby to be born… occasionally I wanted to interact with the pregnancy community, breastfeeding community and house plant community. My account was permanently banned/suspended for absolutely no reason at all. It happened when my husband got banned for a comment he made (I would have to ask him the details) but my account was permanently banned a few days after his was. Initially I thought it would be an easy fix! Clearly it was just a simple mix-up! My account was very clearly not my husband’s account. We had much different use patterns etc. plus my username has the word “mama” in it. However, I quickly found that it was not going to be so simple. They basically ignored me. I knew they were reading the messages, but I just kept getting automated responses. At first I thought it would just be the one account that was suspended, since I figured it was tied to my husbands account. So I actually refrained from making a new account as I was waiting for Reddit to tell me the best course of action. It was radio silence on their end. Finally I made a new account and within days it was banned. I knew It was personal when I told them that they hadn’t yet banned my oldest Reddit account made in 2011, which was completely not tied to my husbands account at all… was banned when I told them I had been able to log into that account without issue and that it hadn’t been banned. I never gave them the user name and within a day my account was also permanently banned. They were reading my messages and it felt like they were mocking me. They never could give me a reason for being banned. So, here I am. It was incredibly frustrating and felt embarrassing to be that desperate! At one point I told them I would never stop emailing them until they answered me! Of course I eventually gave up. It feels like they banned be because they didn’t like my husband or me? Who knows. The funny thing is, I had paid for many months for Reddit gold, and could not get legitimate customer service as a consumer- how are they getting away with this??
I'm very rarely submit a post on Reddit (mostly commenting, only submited a handful of posts in my 13 years of redditing across multiple accounts), but I'm trying to be more active here. We absolutely need more contents!
Ha, I feel better about posting here than reddit. I want to encourage more people to come over, but not sure of the best way.
First comment on here! Trying to get the hang of things. So, in theory we can use accounts from Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon interchangably, right? What's your optimal way of browsing the Fediverse on Android?
nowadays I just lurk reddit to see how the dumpster fire is burning. I try to contribute here more.
I'll try my best.
I usually lurked, threw the odd vote out there but usually kept to myself on Reddit.
I was already on Mastodon so am familiar with the fediverse, but setting up a kbin instance was a learning curve and a half!
Took me a while to work out how to find and subscribe to magazines on other instances, but shortly after I did I realised that you can subscribe to Lemmy communities in the same way. No more worrying about which app is busier, as it just doesnt matter too much. Just use what you prefer, its the fediverse way.
I'm eagerly awaiting the Android app 👍
Jerboa is a mess but usable
I've been a lurker on Rəddit for almost a decade, but I've never been on such a commenting spree as I've been in the past couple of weeks.
Back on there, I was maybe, posting comments once a week on the average. There might be spurts of activity as I get involved in a discussion, but that usually happens once every a couple of months. In contrast, here, I've made a couple of hundred comments in just less than twenty days. That's more comments than I would have ordinarily made in half a year over on the other side.
Also, while my posting over on the other side isn't stellar, only having made a handful of posts over my nearly a decade over there, here, I've already made three--not much, but still way a lot more activity than I'm used to. I find commenting and engaging with others in threads a lot easier than starting my own thread. It's kinda scary.
Having said all that, I think what is needed here is not just "more content" but more quality and engaging content. While a dead community where no one's talking is bad, I also hate to see communities devolve into spamming sessions in effort to push up activity.
EDIT: Added a word for clarification.
I agree and I have been. Cheers to making this space better for everyone.
I used to comment quite a bit on reddit, but that was usually to get into technical discussions or political arguments. So far there hasn't been much technical content for me to sink my teeth into and I have yet to run into posts or comments calling for my extermination so I haven't felt compelled to say anything. I'm glad that people here are nice, but I miss answering questions about electric circuits, embedded systems, etc.
Here's hoping that some day soon when people can't figure out why their op-amp is driven into saturation they don't post about it on reddit first.
I used old.reddit.com without an account for so long that I usually forget I even have the ability to do those things here.
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