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Wanted to say it’s pretty cool to see how fast this place has grown in just the past few days and it’s starting to really feel like what Reddit used to be in the good ol days.

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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how all of this will be next year.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do we have any of those !RemindMe bots yet? Haha

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

All in due time ;)

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man. Some of us are never going to get some of the reminders we set.

[–] Navigate@partizle.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are bots exempted from the new API costs? There might be less of them around too

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

Yes, so long as they are non-commercial and they stay under the usage limit (which was also increased).

[–] TechExpert@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk if I’m going crazy but this feels exactly like reddit now. At first it was confusing but I don’t see any difference now?

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

New here. Can't figure out how to reply to the OP itself. Help?

[–] BiaThemis@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Don't use the reply button and just directly use the comment box at the bottom of the page. You can think it as not directly replying but as commenting in a thread because technically OP does not post but creates a thread, does that make sense?

[–] Klunk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scroll to the bottom of the thread. Comment box is there

[–] polaroid@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Iirc there is also a user script to put it at the top of the page

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For some reason, the box to reply to OP is at the bottom of a thread.

Not sure why it wouldn't be at the top, but it is how it is.

I might look into whether I can fix this using a custom theme 🤔

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I found myself. All I need to do is to scroll to the end.

[–] jeebus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] detwaft@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Kbin is to reddit as mastodon is to twitter, IMO.

[–] sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s definitely capturing the old electricity. I like it a lot. Finding a good client for using on mobile definitely helps ease the transition, too

[–] hibbfd@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what client? only one I've seen so far is that closed/full beta :-(

currently using a webapp which isn't terrible but isn't that great either

[–] BiaThemis@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean aside from not being able to collapse comments, the webapp is not that bad. Although I confess Jerboa is much much better which is tempting me to switch to lemmy.

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

Theres a userscript that alows you to collapse the comments

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[–] sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy

It’s in TestFlight currently but it’s getting there

[–] miroppb@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still waiting for Memmy to work with Kbin 😕

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

At least the web app for kbin works reasonably well. It's a lot easier to get around on than the Lemmy mobile site.

[–] sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I might not 100% grasp how this all works yet, but I signed up for lemmy.world and I’m talking to you here on Memmy. Is kbin not supposed to be connected to other instances?

[–] DianaHasWings@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It absolutely is connected! I’m replying to you from kbin.social.

But kbin is different software, and will need a different app to access.

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 1 points 1 year ago

It's not that we all can't talk to eachother, but rather that Memmy has no idea how to login and interact with Kbin, but it DOES know how to login and interact with Lemmy.

Sharing posts between instances is handled by, well, your instance. It'd be really slow if each user had to share posts with eachother like a Torrent or something :P

[–] Nugget_in_biscuit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for Memmy!

I’m also pretty excited for Artemis, which is…ahem…inspired by Apollo (which was my exclusive portal to Reddit since it launched in 2017)

[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Just needs a bit more content every day and we're good tbh. Also I miss my video game subs like MonsterHunterMeta...

[–] SalivatingDeadGuy@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, me too. I was so sad about Reddit. I'm just starting to explore the fediverse. It's very exciting. Change is good.

Agreed. I'm reminded of the Digg exodus from years ago which was when I joined reddit initially. Kind of sad how far it's fallen from the 2010/2011 days.

[–] Klebbenator@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I'm a desktop only kid of person, and so far the experience is really pretty fantastic. It feels like the fun internet of about 2012 or so.

[–] ryanmr@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found an equivalent sub to the game I play here, that had since closed on Reddit. I was really pleasantly surprised. That makes it feel like home. Sure, not as much traffic there yet but it's all seemingly setup.

[–] AlexanderESmith@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Based on his subscriptions, I'd assume guildwars2@kbin.social.

[–] polaroid@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like the comfort of a close community, like small subreddits. Fortunately for me that's exactly where I thrive.

Vague 2008 Reddit vibes (including the chaotic techie vibe and the weird nsfw but that's part of the charm).

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Having porn randomly pop up was weirdly comforting. Just means we're still in the wild west phase and I love that.

[–] shiggityshwat@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still crazy new here, but why can't we browse comments by Top? I'm wondering if a choice was made not to allow that (the way that Mastodon made some choices not to support some Twitter features), or if it's hard because of federation or something. That's the only thing I'm still jarred by here.

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try asking in /m/kbinMeta - it’s a fair question. Maybe the dev just hasn’t implemented it yet

[–] yesdogishere@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sadly, reddit needs to die asap. everyone pls leave and come over to lemmy or kbin or whatever.

also we need to bankrupt reddit and all owners like ohanian and spez for stealing OUR MONEY. We put in the effort to build reddit, not them. they are worse than that fbook idiot.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The answer is, and will be, "the software is very early beta, and the server launched only a month ago".

It's a good feature request, though. It belongs in the issue tracker.

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's mostly because kbin is incredibly new. Ernest didn't expect to have this amount of traffic on his hands. Things will catch up

[–] AbaixoDeCao@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely noob here, is there an RSS feed in the magazines?

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 1 points 1 year ago

Kbin doesn't seem to support this yet, at least I can't find an option in the web interface or by appending .rss to a magazine's link.

[–] Merlin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’m still getting used to it. Not that bad, a bit slower and I believe we still have no video support. Still, I don’t intend to go back to reddit. I’m trying Memmy and Mlem apps interchangeably and I’m pretty happy with it. I need to participate more though, not just being s lurker. Hopefully saving stuff, checking what you liked, etc will be available soon. For the time the app devs had on this, what we’re getting is amazing. This will be in much better shape than reddit very soon.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Same. Hope it continues to grow.

It's nice to not be advertised to. It's nice to be on a (group of) platform(s) where connecting people is a goal rather than merely a side effect of a particular way of generating profit. I have trouble talking to people IRL, so Reddit was where I actually connected to people for the most part. Not at all healthy now that I'm writing it out, but it is what it is.

And I've seen a higher proportion of "essays" on here than on Reddit. Definitely starting to feel like home. I just hope that more Redditors agree.

[–] LevelUp@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

Ayyy, welcome to the fediverse, glad to hear things are feeling good for ya!

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

I agree. Mostly using it on a mobile but works ok but specifically the people are great.

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