I think ultimately, this would be the best move for the users, and would open them up to a lot more content all across the board. But Reddit does not care about its users, so it won't happen.
@Chozo Thank you, yeah I was thinking that it would help push the Fediverse well making the users that want to stick to Reddit the ability to do so, or even more away well still having access to the previously preferred boards.
It would be more representative, but the thing that would kill it is it would also be annoying. I rolled my eyes at reddit pushing non-subbed content to me, and it would personally feel like a callback to that. Not out of disinterest in the poll, but because I didn't get to choose. User-generated pop-up is still a pop-up.
I'd be concerned about the possibility it may end up being a sub that's popularly blocked to avoid being spammed with unwanted questions, or at least one that's complained about.
I understand what you mean. If we asked like 2% of all active users (which might be enough), you'd get a pop up on average once every 4 years, which is probably not enough to annoy anybody.
Beneficial because Reddit captured a ton of niche communities that used to exist on forums/usenet/etc, and there's a lot of actual unique, useful content buried under all the noise. Ideally that content would be able to filter back into places that aren't tied to some startup that never figured out how to be profitable.
Impractical because I imagine quite a few servers would have to defederate because they simply wouldn't be able to manage mirroring the constant stream of stuff coming out of Reddit. It's a bit early to tell how long any of the general interest reddit-a-likes can sustain on donations or whatever, and turning on that firehose would transform some hobbyist servers into money pits fast.
@gradecurve Yeah I would say the Fediverse as a whole needs to be slowly moving bringing people in otherwise a wave for millions of people if Reddit or any other big tech social media did fall it could break the Fediverse so fast.
I blocked lemmy.world. Fortunately, all shit post communities disappeared, which is a big win, and browsing m/all is delightful. However, I'm still seeing some communities from that server. Which I don't bother, because I can see posts from other servers too, but it's kind of odd.
Domain blocking isn't quite the same as instance blocking. It generally works for text posts or image posts from that instance's users, but things like image posts may not be on the feddit.de domain. For instance, when I block that domain, I see the latest thread in m/[email protected] is actually from the domain discuss.tcncs.de (as shown in () next to the title). This is because the domain of an image post is where the image is hosted, as users posting images upload it to their own instance, not the instance the magazine is on. Ernest last said instance blocking should be coming in the future
I think I found the answers, posting them here so one less person ends up needing to search that other site. (I need to make a Tools magazine to ask questions in)
Well, I was more meaning like if you don't know a specific name for a community and you just have a general topic in mind. I'm guessing search is the best option?
I've noticed it's only specific comments too. I was able to upvote yours fine but on another comment in a different thread I tried 5-6 times and gave up. It doesn't seem to matter if the user or comment or post is local to Kbin.social or any other instance either.
Yeah, I've tried a good ten times to upvote your comment just now, including through several refreshes and a logoff/logon cycle, and it takes me to that error page every time.
I'm genuinely a little confused because this only started happening to me a couple weeks ago, but it's been getting significantly worse lately. I know the roadmap is long, but this should probably be prioritized because it's making it feel pointless to even use the site when one of the fundamental methods of participating doesn't work a good 70% of the time.
I'm still working on it because it doesn't happen to everyone, which is why it's not that simple. Before the release, the problem should already be resolved, so please have a little more patience :)
Thank you for all the work you're doing to improve kbin!
Only somewhat related, but along with periodic logouts, I've noticed that if I interact with a page that's been up for a while (I get distracted, read a bunch of headlines, or going back to a previous page) it will error out and attempt to resend the data when I try refreshing. I can go back to the original page and reload and it works just fine.
@ernest Thanks very much for taking the time to reply. Kbin is great and I appreciate all of your hard work. Take the time you need, no one could have imagined how this instance would take off!
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