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How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by east@kbin.social to c/chat@kbin.social

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I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality discussion with friendly participants.

This planted my initial seed about federated social media. I knew from some experience that it could be applied in many different ways. I started looking at Reddit alternatives recently as things started heating up over the recent API changes and came across both kbin and lemmy.

Anyways that's enough about my journey, I'm more curious about yours. What brought you here and do you plan on staying for a while?

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[–] Avatarlue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think same as many new people here. When I saw the news about Apollo it left a really bad taste in my mouth. It's funny, I switched from Alien Blue to the official reddit app years ago (as they intended) and while I've been increasingly annoyed with the official app it wasn't enough to deter me. When I saw the news about Apollo I was finally annoyed enough to delete the official app and switch to Apollo for its final month and got a glimpse at what I was missing out on. I also knew the clock was ticking to find a new home.

I started reading into reddit alternatives, looked at a few and saw stuff about lemmy and the fediverse. Tried to go to lemmy and couldn't connect, I assume because they had the same traffic surge as all the reddit alternatives. Then I saw the kbin migration subreddit was banned and decided to try out kbin. Here I am.