I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I’m feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how other’s are taking it.
For me, I feel a bit of a sore hollow spot for what reddit used to be and watching it implode is not fun for me.
Yeah, I’m gonna miss the level of community engagement from my favorite subs. NCD, RoughRomanMemes, and Shermanposting. We likely won’t get that level of activity here for a long time. Also gonna miss updates from r/Ukraine, though I get most of the big news from ISW, the human interest stories shone most on Reddit.
I still have my reddit account to keep track of a few niche communities that can’t survive the move, but I haven’t commented or doomscrolled since I left for Kbin.
I think it maybe important for us to all collectively shift our views on commenting on “old” posts. I’m going to give myself a 2 week window on commenting on threads. If everyone had this kinda attitude it may help with engagement short term til things start picking up long term.
Do people have something against commenting on old posts? I’d do that all the time when I had reason to on Reddit
I didn’t have a problem with it, but in a large sub, anything more than a couple hours old that hasn’t attracted much attention is not going to be seen by many or get much conversation, and anything 24 hours old is usually gone.
Small subs could have older posts see activity for much longer.
As long as the original poster is still active, I don’t see any reason to not comment on “old” posts if there is something to contribute and/or ask. I’ve had people comment on posts that were older than a year (and of course I answered).
[email protected] and [email protected] are both relatively active, though I realize that that’s still less-so than Reddit.
(As of this writing, the auto-hyperlinking of the above magazines is still broken, but using that format as I understand that it’s supposed to be fixed in the next update).
NCD was like the first magazine I saw with actual activity that was clearly explicitly from Reddit. I mean, it doesn’t have the volume yet, but it’s definitely a thing already.
[email protected]
Or until kbin’s auto-hotlinking is fixed in the next release, for kbin.social users:
https://kbin.social/m/NonCredibleDefense