Reddit Migration

I’ve said it another thread but moderators need to be patient with all of the new people. I made a post trying to get some questions answered and was shit on by a mod for not knowing the rules. I couldn’t even find the sidebar at that point. If that is the attitude new users are met with when making mistakes then new contributions will be limited.

Reddit lurker checking in. I have a total of 2 posts and 15 comments in 13 years of using reddit. Not sure about using kbin or one of the smaller lemmy instances, but I'm here for now.

Reddit lurker commenting. Still not sure about using kbin or a smaller lemmy instance for the long term but for now I’m here!

14:1 upvote to comment ratio on this post as of this comment...um....

The problem is, I never really have anything to say that's worth contributing 😢

I agree, also join me on @Bestof.

I'd like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don't behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.

• Up arrow = Upvote on Reddit and Favourite on Kbin - This is very different to reddit
• Down Arrow = Downvote on Reddit and Reduce on Kbin
• Boost (at bottom) = On kbin this is the equivalent to a reddit upvote.

It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2

I'd only made one single post and it had 17 "upvotes" and 2 "downvotes" so the -2 confused me a bit. That's when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn't contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don't understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.

Edit: To be clear while "fake internet points" are not overly important to me. "Reputation" or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.

Seeing -2 made me think "Who have I pissed off?" Till I realised that "Favourites" don't contribute to reputation.

Hmm, 63 upvotes and two comments… there is certain level of irony here.

I made a post, I'm doing my part!

Trying. But there is so much fluff and garbage.

nowadays I just lurk reddit to see how the dumpster fire is burning. I try to contribute here more.

Thank you for the reminder.

It's so easy to fall back into mindless scrolling; I'm needing to remember to make a concerted effort.

Am on it ! Been upvoting from the moment I landed here. So glad to witness and contribute to a watershed moment in the history of reddit and the fediverse!

Haven't posted on Reddit since the blackout, and don't intend to. Only reason I'm still lurking is because I'm loosely keeping up on SubredditDrama, and manually deleting my comments and posts.

Developments in lemmy/kbin have been exciting and I've been focusing my time here instead of Reddit. Cake Day is the 26th. I plan on wrapping up my account then. Seems fitting after 11 years.

I'm doing this as well. It helps a lot that the user base is smaller (in a good way) here, which means posting something relevant/valuable has a better chance of being noticed, which in turn makes me want to post more.

Try posting a well thought-out comment in a huge thread on Reddit a couple hours after it was posted... you'll get lost under all the jokes and puns.

It took me a few days to realize that I could comment on threads without getting bombarded by every troll on the internet. The reddit conditioning is hard to break.

Habitual lurker checking in. On kbin and loving the difference in vibe and waiting patiently for the migration to boost the communities I used to frequent.

I'm trying to boost and upvote as I scroll. I've feel like I've commented more here than I have in the last several years on reddit.

Tried to make a beer- themed magazine but I have no clue what I'm doing.

You are right, I will try.

(First comment ever ;)

I'll do my best!

Ok here's my first comment! Enjoying kbin so far and I love that I can interact with lemmy and mastodon as well.

I have been using KBIN since yesterday and Lemmy since the beginning of June. I was completely convinced that the Up Arrow was an Upvote until i saw this post. What kind of bonkers design decision was this? I know that Kbin wants to differentiate itself from Reddit, but this is really counterintuitive.

First comment on here! Trying to get the hang of things. So, in theory we can use accounts from Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon interchangably, right? What's your optimal way of browsing the Fediverse on Android?

Get out of here with those good ideas

Posting as I was once a Reddit lurker who originally made my Reddit account while waiting for my baby to be born… occasionally I wanted to interact with the pregnancy community, breastfeeding community and house plant community. My account was permanently banned/suspended for absolutely no reason at all. It happened when my husband got banned for a comment he made (I would have to ask him the details) but my account was permanently banned a few days after his was. Initially I thought it would be an easy fix! Clearly it was just a simple mix-up! My account was very clearly not my husband’s account. We had much different use patterns etc. plus my username has the word “mama” in it. However, I quickly found that it was not going to be so simple. They basically ignored me. I knew they were reading the messages, but I just kept getting automated responses. At first I thought it would just be the one account that was suspended, since I figured it was tied to my husbands account. So I actually refrained from making a new account as I was waiting for Reddit to tell me the best course of action. It was radio silence on their end. Finally I made a new account and within days it was banned. I knew It was personal when I told them that they hadn’t yet banned my oldest Reddit account made in 2011, which was completely not tied to my husbands account at all… was banned when I told them I had been able to log into that account without issue and that it hadn’t been banned. I never gave them the user name and within a day my account was also permanently banned. They were reading my messages and it felt like they were mocking me. They never could give me a reason for being banned. So, here I am. It was incredibly frustrating and felt embarrassing to be that desperate! At one point I told them I would never stop emailing them until they answered me! Of course I eventually gave up. It feels like they banned be because they didn’t like my husband or me? Who knows. The funny thing is, I had paid for many months for Reddit gold, and could not get legitimate customer service as a consumer- how are they getting away with this??