I’ve enjoyed my time on the fediverse but have been disappointed with the leveling off of growth and lack of participation in niche communities. I still visit Kbin several times weekly, but it isn’t like the old days when I would spend tons of time on Reddit. I have left my old Reddit account redacted and haven’t started using it again, as that time is over. There are some communities and niche interests that unfortunately, it looks like Reddit will always be the main home for since we didn’t hit the critical mass for people to move those communities over here. Because of that, I’ve started a new reddit account (with my real name attached, and started actively participating in those communities). For me, Reddit is no longer a place to anonymously participate in community discussions (because those discussions were becoming increasingly worthless alot of the time), but a place to participate with my IRL identity in communities related to topics or hobbies I care about. The anonymous community stuff is fulfilled by Kbin/Fediverse which I prefer now.

i havent been active here for weeks, months maybe, but before i was arguably one of the most active on the site during and after the reddit stuff. i do miss making scripts and styles for kbin, the feeling of community, and the urge to create content. coming back i see a lot of activity died off, expectedly, but there is a tight-knit but welcoming community that has formed and it’s nice too see. does feel a bit empty though?

There is so much less pretentious misleading alienated crap here. Love that. I’d like some more non-repost interesting videos, that’s something I miss… But totally worth the tradeoff of not getting pissed at how dumb of shit you can post and still get positive mass response. Plus the feed here has an end. No more oops I spent an hour looking at shit

On the whole, Kbin and the wider fediverse have been great! I feel that I’ve been able to engage a lot more meaningfully with others here, though that’s likely due to it being relatively small. Likewise, I’ve been posting a lot more to help this place grow, which has been great.

The whole decentralization aspect is particularly great. From Kbin, I can view threads from other Lemmy & Kbin instances as well as microblogs from Mastodon instances, and it’s great to be able to view all of those in one place with Kbin’s UI.

All of that being said, there are definitely some growing pains, primarily related to activity. Outside of general communities on big Lemmy instances, people don’t post much. This is the case with any social media site — way more people are willing to view or even engage with content than to post it — but I can’t help but wish that some of the people voting and commenting on posts would also make some of their own and contribute to magazines. Often, this is due to people just not having ideas for what to post (speaking from experience), but I think a lot of it is people just not thinking to post that cool thing they saw somewhere else or on another magazine.

There are also a lot features that have yet to be implemented on Kbin. Microblog federation is very poor, there isn’t a built-in subscriptions panel, the image UI in post creation provides no visual feedback, you can’t follow tags as useful as it would be, moderation is still limited unless you’re the owner and have access to the magazine panel, etc. Of course, Ernest et al. can only work so quickly, and the progress that has been made so far is great — for example, the crossposting UI is awesome and has helped me discover more magazines — but the lack of features does still impact the experience regardless of what can be done about it.

Kbin is great, and I’m hoping that development continues at the current pace. Above all, I’m hoping that a few more people here decide to post a bit more regularly or at all.

Settled in, mostly.

Of course I need to access information I can’t find elsewhere at Reddit once in a while but if I create content in there, it’s about kbin only.

Looking at interesting discussions to be a part of, trying to make kbin a more fleshed-out service with ideas rushing through my head, enjoying the reputation points dripping in 😃 And trying to come up with different themes under a topic to a magazine while dreaming to get even a few more peeps over there!

I still use reddit for some of the niche community-based subs that haven’t been replicated here, like What’s That Book?, a place where a while bunch of readers and librarians try to help people find books they remember a bit about, but not the title or author. That one is a lot of fun because people are so excited when they get an answer, and because the community is strong enough that most people do get answers. It seems like it would be hard to recreate that experience here. Similar is the Learn Math subreddit, where people ask about things they aren’t understanding or can’t figure out in their math studies, at pretty much any level, and the community comes up with multiple explanations and thoughts. The variety of questions and the in-depth answers are remarkable.

Generally it just feels a lot smaller and a fair bit more homogenous here. I like this site too, but it kinda feels like what reddit used to be is just gone now.

Using an open source client of my choice (voyager) that I actually like better than the reddit clients I used before, enjoying fewer posts with less, but usually better, more interesting and/or funny contents and comments. The only thing I miss is the rust (programming) community, which ironically didn’t really move to lemmy (but still got smaller/less active on reddit), so I sometimes still lurk that subreddit while obviously not contributing anything to it myself.

With Artemis development on hold and the corresponding instance down, I started using this account again.

Are there any other mobile apps out there? I ended up experimenting with Lemmy a bit, but I find myself coming back to kbin. The communities I follow seem much more active here.

I miss my local city sub and Detroit Lions, that’s the only thing I can’t seem to replace here on fedi

I still use Reddit a bit (on desktop only), mostly to check on some niche communities that aren’t really on the Fediverse yet, but Kbin has been very nice also. It’s nice and chill, and overall a lot less fascist/bigot friendly, which is refreshing.

Nice Kingdom Come Deliverance profile pic btw

Miss the niche, enjoying it otherwise. Easier to name and shame the fascists and the tankies and just chill with people in discussion about media or what have you

I enjoy being here. I already forgot Reddit and only stumble on it occasionally when it appears in a search result on DDG. Keep strong Lemmy!

For my day to day time wasting, kbin and the fediverse is enough. But if I need help with anything, I’m extremely lucky if there is anything at all.

I’ve only ever lurked on reddit and here I’m actually interacting, which I enjoy. Still, the feddiverse would profit from some more users and content creators, and it doesn’t really have an advertisment budget. So keep telling your friends (in a non-anoying way, of course).

kbin finally has notifications not throwing an error every time I try to check them, so that much is nice now. I’ve actually had no problems with the Reddit software on my phone, and I’ve unsubbed from most of the communities I was part of there which moved across to lemmy. That choice has really trimmed my experience down to a more focused one nicely. I’ve also gotten done turning federation back off as I want it to be, and my user block list here is getting pretty long, blocking out the spammers that come across my feed.

Of course, because kbin is still one of the smallest sites related to the ActivityPub protocol, there’s limited content here compared to Reddit, Then again, there’s also less content on all of PeerTube (let alone a single site) than there is on YouTube, and I’d take a shot at saying that even Threads has the largest Mastodon community beat by a country mile, let alone what Twitter still has.

So basically, I guess I’d say I’m not a refugee, I’m just doing as I did with Facebook when it first launched after MySpace and Friendster - keeping my options open and looking around.

Still visiting both, unfortunately a bunch of niche things I follow on reddit just don’t have activity here.