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So what corners have redditors gathered to during the blackout? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I ask because I haven't felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on... But there might be other alternatives I haven't looked at that are worth that look.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I tested the waters at several sites:

Mastodon felt too much like Twitter my taste, too many angry people and too much politics; the UI is slick, though
Squabbles UI felt weird
Lemmy had some problematic stuff around the person who runs it, and it felt more confusing on which instance to pick
kbin has been my favorite; familiar UI, and people seem mostly friendly and chill

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What you said about Mastodon would surely differ from instance to instance, unless you’re referring to the global feed where everything is federated.

What I personally like most about Mastodon, Lemmy and Kbin is that they don’t use an algorithm to decide on my behalf what I should or shouldn’t see. If I subscribe to another user, I will see their posts, and I will see them in the correct chronological order. Not this hidden secret “personalization” algorithm that randomly decides to hide something from me because it wouldn’t draw engagement, and decides to show me something I didn’t ask for because it would.

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

Yessss, I didn't even think about that once I started using kbin/mastodon, but you are totally right. There's a reason why the for-profit social media things absolutely don't want to just give you a chronological feed.

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