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I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most people aren't even thinking of moving to reddit alternatives. Users have a lot of power in this situation. Just move your community to Lemmy or Kbin. It's not that hard.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (43 children)

We're early adopters. Early adopters have a higher tolerance for (and ability to deal with) things like bugs, confusing UI, uncertainty, and probably continual change for the short term.

But hey, someone's gotta do it. The end result of this will be an established community and a more polished product. Over time, more and more people will show up as this place gets better and better, and Reddit continues to worsen. (Everyone knows that old.reddit is going away, it's just a matter of when.)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (24 children)

We're early adopters. Early adopters have a higher tolerance for (and ability to deal with) things like bugs, confusing UI, uncertainty, and probably continual change for the short term.

Not to mention, a lack of content. While it's populating nicely it's still not like Reddit, especially for niche subjects. You definitely have to endure a lot of shouting in the wind situations while this builds up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think a lot of my reddit usage boils down to searches.

"Best pregnancy lotion reddit"

"Bed gouging ender 3 pro reddit"

"Submarine disaster askhistorians"

Are the main ways I used reddit this week.

Before all the drama I had pointed to many friends that most discourse and live interaction on my regular subreddits had already moved to discord. The unified ui and functioning search make it more useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, and just googling something will be completely useless with a project named after a famous rock musician.

„How to upload pictures lemmy“, yes, thank you google, I know how Lemmy Kilmister looks, thank you.

That’s (among other things) why I hope kbin will be the victor of that race…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

im not sure I want a victor or even see a race as long as the federation survives we all win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I'm not wrong, kbin right now isn't allowing for web crawlers. So using kbin for searches like for Reddit isn't possible for now as well.