This is where breaking news, the latest numbers, information, and questions about the #RedditMigration will be posted. There will also be a place to discuss tactics to best help users make that jump and feel at home in the Fediverse. Welcome!
How to Sign Up for #kbin
- Go to https://kbin.social (fedia.io or other instance) >>> Log in
- Register
- Fill in Username, Email, Password and Repeat password >>> Click Consent… >>> Register
- IMPORTANT! NOW CHECK YOUR EMAIL (MAYBE SPAM FOLDER) look for email and click Confirm…
- Fill in Login or email, Password >>> Click Remember me >>> Login
- And there you are! Check top right to see your user name.
How to Set Up your Profile on #kbin (after you have signed up)
- Go to https://kbin.social (fedia.io or other instance) >>> Hover over [Username] and select Settings
- Click Profile
- Fill in the comment, Username, Select Avatar and Cover images >>> Save
- Hover over [Username] and select Profile
- And there you go!
I would hope for Reddit to really suffer from this and become a shelf of itself maybe even like what happened to dog . I hope In a couple of years people will make memes about what happened with Reddit.
But to be honest I think this is just wishful thinking and Reddit might be fine down the road. Don’t get me wrong lots of people will migrate and this can be great for places like Kbin or squabbles or any other Reddit alternative but my hope for Reddit just going away is not very high.
Not sure what is happening today but people are putting up with a ton of shot and very few are down to actually do something about it.
Like look at Netflix for example, with their new password sharing cracking down policy. Tons of people being vocal about cancelling their accounts and I do believe most of the vocals ones did it. But truth is most people and big part or the ones not being vocal just put up with it and subscribed to their service. According to recent reports (I could probably cite them here but it’s easy to find) their subscription numbers are up even more so than at the beginning of the COVID lockdown. So even tho they did lost some of their subscribers they did gain a net amount of new ones.
I am just baffled and honestly a bit pessimistic about Reddit and Twitter in general to feel much of this.
Sure some mods will leave, the quality of many subreddits will fall but eventually new people will join and new mods will be appointed.
Instead I want to focus on new places like Kbin getting new people or people from Reddit and just making this my new home.
But how knows, hopefully I am wrong and Reddit will actually feel the consequences of being greedy.
But I swear in todays society feels like being greedy is rewarded instead of punished. Something is very wrong with how we as a society are doing things.
Based on observations of which subreddits are going dark/migrating and which ones are staying, IMO Reddit is about to swing hard toward conservative/fascist in the coming days/weeks.
Today I’m undertaking the effort of moving all my persistent post content relating to my projects from Reddit elsewhere. I think in the mid-term future Reddit will be as bad a name to be associated with as Voat or 8chan.
I’m thinking the same. I already nuked my 12 years of comments (I was a commenter, not a poster) and I’ll delete the account at the end of this month.
What did you use to nuke it? Probably going to do the same on my 11yr account.
I used this here script called Power Delete Suite.
Are you also getting the feeling that this was the intention the whole time? To “clean house” as it were and cause an exodus by certain people they deemed to be…freeloading…or not conducive to their future bottom line? Those who tend to have a negative impact (or drag) on their advertising and investor pools?
Because that’s been my feeling all along.
I just don’t see how driving out old users that have years and years of quality comments could be a good idea.
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Interesting piece on #Reddit today includes some discussion of lemmy vs. kbin and good links:
Switch to kbin, (or lemmy), its reddit but federated and without censorship > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/archcraft/comments/1470ccd/switch_to_kbin_or_lemmy_its_reddit_but_federated/
Had to scroll all the way down to find a way to comment ! It’s hard to migrate, but I’m happy to do it
Hi everybody, and to new horizons we go
New user here, its only been my first day here and I already like how helpful and kind many people are, here’s hoping for more growth!
Just completely nuked my main and alts, 15 and 10 years, respectively. Tens of thousands of comments and several thousand posts have been wiped.
Might be good to add https://reddark.untone.uk/ to the description as a useful resource!
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