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We Should Focus On Building Kbin, Not Getting Back at Reddit. Here's How We Do It. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.

That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.

I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.

At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.

Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?

We would be leveraging Reddit's own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That's the biggest L we could ever deal them.

EDIT: WASN'T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.

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

Fully agree with every word.

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

I like your idea :) Has anyone contacted the 3rd party app developers to see if they want to make any apps or bot scripts for this fediverse?

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

Agreed, I‘m actually on somewhat of an upvoting and commenting spree and creating accounts on all sorts of instances. I know I can move around too, but with defederating being a thing I prefer multiple accounts. Kbin so far visually is the nicest to me and it loads super fast!

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

@BasicallyClean It's an interesting take on how to accellerate a migration. And I hope to see it work and for kbin to grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] Faendol 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a Lemmy user but I absolutely think the fediverse could be the real web 3.0. Corporations showed they can't be trusted to build sustainable products. I'd much prefer to build up the fediverse to a point where it is seriously competitive than to go back to reddit. Even if they roll back the changes now they've shown their hand. They are just going to keep finding more ways to squeeze users for profit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I much prefer building up Lemmy over Kbin.

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

How come?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I much prefer they build to be 100% interoperable and people just choose what they like

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Por que no los dos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kbin needs quite a few UX improvements, speaking as a designer/photographer

I don't know anything about development though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed about the mirror of posts. Even if the engagement isn't as high yet, if people at least feel they can get the rough news feed they are used to, they'll more likely jump over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The fiercest way to get back at Reddit and u/spez is to make the Fediverse succeed.

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