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People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war — Business Insider
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To be honest, I've been dissatisfied with Reddit for quite a while now but just didn't realise it. Once I dipped my toes into the Fediverse I realised what it was I'd been missing: that sense of community that Reddit used to have before it became too big, too cold and too corporate. In my defence I used RIF for years and was shielded from the worst excesses of corporate culture. After setting myself up on Lemmy and getting a bit of a handle on what's what I'm really enjoying the sense of intimacy and DIY ethos. It's far more like the Reddit I used to know. It feels good to be back.
Same. I've really been enjoying Kbin. More than I've enjoyed Reddit in years.
When Relay for Reddit goes down, that site is dead to me. If someone can make a Relay-quality app for Kbin it's game fucking over haha.
The only thing I'm going to miss is /r/askhistorians. What a great subreddit.
I would wager that some of of the history folks there will most-likely show up here.
They looked at Lemmy/Kbin and said it didn't meet their criteria.
Their goal is to reach as broad an audience as possible and the platform is too small right now. One of the reasons they can get professional historians to write thesis-length replies is that those historians know their responses might be seen by tens of thousands of people or more.
Same here. Had been using RIF for a long while as well and recently realized that it really was like a screen that managed to filter the worst of it if you knew how to customize your experience. Without that, there's no point anymore. The Fediverse has its own learning curve, but it will be worth it just to find the instance and comms I'll be most comfortable in.
I generally post in search of comments rather than upvotes, and I feel like Kbin/Lemmy are a lot better about that than Reddit. On Reddit, a post with only 50 upvotes is probably dead and will only get like 3 comments, meanwhile here it's easy to get a huge number of comments with even a comparably small number of votes.