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This feels like old reddit :) I love it here

I've tried lemmy.world, Beehaw and Kbin. Kbin is by far the closest experience to Reddit as you can get (That I have tried)

It’s feeling a bit like 2008 all over again, the community feels smaller, more engaged and with a main sense of purpose. It’s refreshing.

I’m glad to be journeying on this spaceship with y’all.

It is great here! I love how much engagement there is. It doesn't feel as if I'm yelling into the wind anymore

First day it's been usable for me! Grabbed some niche mags and trying to populate. Really enjoying the UI. Brings me back.

I’ve registered on and experimented with a handful of fediverse instances, apps, etc this week and really keep coming back to Kbin.social as my main point of entry. With the progressive web app on my phone and iPad I’m having a similar experience to Apollo, and really liking watching this community (and Lemmy) grow. Glad to be here with you all, let’s keep this excitement going!

That's basically a stadium full of people. Well except that most people here probably have never seen a stadium from the inside.

Nerds.

For 30k monthly users some magazines that seem to be popular for most people (gaming, pcgaming) seem awfully dead

This is exciting! It's like being a pioneer on the "new" internet.

thanks for making this possible @ernest

I'm one of them!

You could say that we’re a community on the… GROW!

30k is small compared to Reddit, or Twitter, or Facebook, but it's very large compared to what's necessary to keep a space lively and engaging.

And on that front, there is such a thing as too big. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands of active users all engaging with a single topic stop being, well, engaging, and start becoming white noise generators: See a post, comment on the post, never have anyone read your comment because 20,000 other people have also done the same. That kind of environment just turns us into consumers of media, rather than social beings, and is just fundamentally kind of bad for us.

We have enough passive, unidirectional media we consume. Spaces like this are better when they're not one of them.

And may it keep growing!

I'm so happy to have learned so much about the Fediverse and its communities in the past week. A big thanks to the admins and developers who have put in all the hard work.

Seriously loving kbin so far

This is awesome !

While this is great, I hope it's not too much. The system is really really promising, but still apparently needs a lot of work. Hope the refugees like me came to stay!

It's strange, because Reddit changes so slowly that I've forgotten how much discussion used to take place. This platform actually has people engaging in conversation and it's awesome.

I joined Kbin.social four days ago, and I'm already having a great time! 😃 Excited to see what the future holds for this project!

So how do we new users help keep kbin alive? What are the hosting costs and what do we need to do to stay adfree or at least prevent long-term enshittification now?

It seems to me that there are several factors. Firstly, the instance was created recently, about 1-2 months ago. There wasn't even an official instance opening, you know, with cake and confetti ;) During this time, I've been observing people on the Fediverse. It's unlikely that any follows were given by chance. Later on, wonderful people who discovered kbin did the rest. That's how it is in the Fediverse. In the beginning, not everything is easy and obvious, but if you put enough heart and effort into it, it pays off in the future.

I joined on Sunday. Took a few days to figure out how to do things. But I haven't opened Relay since then. Loving it here.