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I'm finding I post and comment at like ten times the rate I did on reddit. The actual user interactions over here are MILES better.
Agreed, Reddit was needing a culling, I’m all for this fresh start even if it’s less people. Hate to sound like a internet hipster but something can become too mainstream lol
Quality over quantity. Not a slight to reddit users still on reddit. I guess the lack of a karma system doesn't encourage karma farming. The lack of bots also help, i guess.
There's also the fact people on new reddit and the official app have "recommendations" in their feeds. The whole point of reddit to me was self-curation. Now it's just yet another algo-driven doom-scrolling hook.
This is such a brilliant way of putting it
you nailed it. Even when I went to reddit to read tech tips or check in with my gardening community, I got sucked into outrage topics that were pinned everywhere. It was slow how it happened too
Reddit has been boiling its users for years. We're lucky u/spez walked in with a flamethrower and scorched the dish they were cooking..
Same thing over here. It seems that karma being absolutely irrelevant makes us more confident and more prone to participate in discussions and content. That, or maybe the lack of toxicity and vitriol.
That much is true. I love how the upvote/downvote system works on Kbin much better, since there isn't just one total karma sum number.
It didn't even occur to me that I can see the downvote count, wow. That's how Reddit used to be too, so it didn't register as different, I guess.
@cody has been doing some work revamping parts of the UI, including the voting buttons. See his post here and let him know what you think.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign/p/375852