Maybe I just miss Reddit is Fun, not Reddit, but I still have RiF installed (I just can't delete it) and it still "works". I can't sign in or participate, but fuck I miss browsing everything. I've definitely replaced it with Kbin, but opening the RiF app just gives me sadness. Fuck spez.
There’s some specific information that I can’t quite get easily. Like recently looking for information on headphones, amps and dac. R/headphones is still the easiest way to get a lot of information.
I no longer go there recreationally but when I really need good answers it’s still a part of my duckduckgo search query.
Yeah this is where I’m at. Not part of my casual reading. Just part of my internet search if I’m after something specific. Basically just a database now.
TBH that’s Facebook for me as well. Just go there occasionally for very specific reasons. But not to spend time. Which is a shame, as I have a lot of good friends there. But Meta had to go and fuck that place up as well.
after 12 years on the platform, no. the amount of change for the worse that's taken place during that time is too much, and this most recent fuck up was the final straw. i was online before reddit and i'll remain online after reddit
Thanks! I was curious about Tildes but didn't have an invite the last time I checked it out.
That being said, I'm super happy with Kbin now that I've taken the time to sub to communities and follow folks - my feed here is now as active as Reddit's ever was, and the content is lightyears better.
Did not meant to convince you to drop kbin in favor of tildes, as you can see, I'm on both. Though tildes does have that old reddit feel, the "subreddits" are still fixed (users can't create own ones), they are trying to keep effort to be friendly and accepting (that's why the invites, to prevent people joining massively and drastically changing the culture), it's also run by one of old reddit admins (Deimos). The goal is to have "reddit" that isn't a company seeking profits but a non-profit org living from donations.
But yeah, lemmy/kbin on the other hand has communities/magazines on topics that aren't available on tildes.
Hey so this might come off combative but it's not my goal, I really want info. Why is tildes not just Reddit redux? I could be very wrong here and would appreciate correction but as i understand it tildes is not part of the fediverse and control seems to land in the hands of the few, isn't that what ended up driving most of us here to the fediverse? Maybe I'm wrong about all of this and I'd be thrilled if I was because the person who made RiF said they were moving to tildes and I loved RiF.
From what I found tildes was created in 2018 (https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/), lemmy was created in 2019, kbin I think started in 2023.
Edit: I just noticed that tildes is under AGPL, and doesn't look like they don't require contributors to surrender their copyright, so it means the code will need to stay open source even if something would change with the company.
I was an active redditor for 15 years. I don't miss the platform, because kbin and Lemmy are far superior, but I do miss the volume of subreddits and activity. Maybe we will never have that here, but I'm not going back to that shithole.
Same for me, i was part of many smaller subreddits that had nothing to do with tech and i think most used the reddit app. They still haven't moved and I don't think they will. They simply don't care(bc they didn't yse 3th party apps)
I was there 17 years. Can't say I miss it, but I do lament it. The community there helped change my life in some very significant ways. But it became glaringly obvious that the administration have little to no appreciation or respect for their users. I've been enjoying watching them scramble to re-engage lost value in their IPO. I will only return to participate on r/place ... whether that's thru the void or a "Fuck u/spez" ... they will get my traffic for that.
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