Post AWQSVchxMRi8DBZNJI by malakai@the.occultist.space
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(DIR) Post #AWQQXM6drDxXOPoXmS by malakai@the.occultist.space
2023-06-06T20:09:50.664Z
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I've been hearing about distributed Reddit alternatives like Lemmy and Kbin, and since Reddit has been imploding, it might be a good time to set up a public instance.But the thing is, I really don't like the Reddit "culture" or Redditors in general. Everything about the discourse on Reddit screams "bots arguing with bots" to me — the same comments and opinions regurgitated all the time, daily. r/confidentlyincorrect and r/iamverysmart are not just subreddits, but a way of life for most of the commenters.Even if you somehow fill it up with smart people, the entire premise of being able to silence someone by just clicking a down arrow next to their post seems... wrong.
(DIR) Post #AWQSVbsCSsJJcfM2dc by ada@blahaj.zone
2023-06-06T20:27:13.147Z
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@malakai@the.occultist.space As an admin, you can disable downvotes on your instance! That was one of the first things I did
(DIR) Post #AWQSVchxMRi8DBZNJI by malakai@the.occultist.space
2023-06-06T20:31:55.577Z
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@ada@blahaj.zone oh, thanks so much for this info! That addresses the biggest issue.Now I only have to deal with confident incorrectness :madfiremadcrazy:
(DIR) Post #AWQT2NtBTiTbo9RWHg by ada@blahaj.zone
2023-06-06T20:33:42.543Z
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@malakai@the.occultist.space So far, that is less of an issue in my experience. Of course, the culture is at the beginning of the inevitable change that comes with growth, so who knows where it will end up...However, I have hope that because it's moderated by teams on smaller instances, reply guys and the like will be less of a cultural norm
(DIR) Post #AWQT2OYezVeZsmqdvs by malakai@the.occultist.space
2023-06-06T20:37:50.989Z
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@ada@blahaj.zone fair enough. In the same vein, I never liked Twitter discourse either (contrary to popular opinion, it has been in the shitter since way before Musk took over). However, the people who fled to fedi and stayed have been much nicer overall. So I might give it a try.
(DIR) Post #AWQUsRWLJyGS5F98WO by dannekrose@brioco.social
2023-06-06T20:34:55.471Z
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@ada@blahaj.zone @malakai@the.occultist.space In addition to this, /kbin has not implemented down-votes (even though the button is there) and it's not sure they will. /kbin will also allow you to consume non kbin content really well (minus the fact that they are working right now to add Signed GET requests in the next release which should help a lot). #kbin
(DIR) Post #AWQUsSZDQm9lKRUwdc by malakai@the.occultist.space
2023-06-06T20:58:27.780Z
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@dannekrose@brioco.social that's good to know. Thank you :blobfoxthumbsup: