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Absolutely. In my experience, there's a really strong tendency from people who are already all-in on fedi to treat "this thing doesn't have feature X that my previous site Y did" as simple whining and respond to it with hostility rather than constructive criticism, you can see that with the thin-skinned reaction to some criticisms of Mastodon back in November about e.g. lack of quote posts or poor discovery features.
They don't treat it as constructive criticism or actual feedback from users but instead as an assault on something they identify with personally, which is a recipe for disaster
@[email protected] One of the reasons why I like Kbin quite a bit. People tend to start identifying with the community and the software, and tend to take criticisms personal. Kbin does not have that history, and thus criticisms are less impactful.
It also explains why Mastodon has a serious pushback against search on masto servers like universeodon, but not against search on every other software such as *key
I think kbinauts just do things differently than the mastodon crowd as well. It's been just a few days and yet we've already gotten 3 userscripts to modify how kbin works, with some of those features added into the main development roadmap. I can't imagine that happening with mastodon.
Could you, by chance, please give some links to those userscripts?
Unfortunately, it seems kbin search is broken ATM (returns a 500) and google seems to only index magazines, not individual threads, so it's a bit hard to search for them
Userscript for collapsing comments and adding instance names: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/22210/kbin-enhancement-script-Userscript-to-collapse-comments-and-add-domains
userscript for adding instance names: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/23936/kbin-social-I-wrote-a-user-script-to-add-the-home-instance-name#entry-comment-95321
userstyle to make kbin more like reddit (and put comment box at the top of the page rather than bottom): https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/13287/Kbin-it-Changelog
firefox extension to convert community links into kbin links: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/21693/Introducing-Kbin-Link-Navigate-between-communities-with-ease
Thank you!