• zym0x@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Agree completely. The average user doesn’t need to know any of this, at least not like right away. Just join on kbin.social like you would on Reddit and start using the site.

    • duringoverflow@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      its not that simple. If for example you want to join m/technology and the community in your own instance is empty, a new user will think that there are not users/traffic. You need to explain them somehow that the m/technology@another-instance is different community even though that they share kind of the same name (first part of the name).

      • tripp@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I think thats why the fediverse will never take off with the majority of reddits users.

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          2 years ago

          kind of agree. I cannot think of any way that this could be overcome. Something like having “default” communities but then this breaks the federalization. Where would this community be hosted and does this mean that there is a central entity? But still need at least a better search where one can easier discover communities from other instances. It is very tricky indeed

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      2 years ago

      What I’ve been doing during switching, so far so good with kbin. A bit under polished, but otherwise a great solution, esp with being both a Twitter+reddit alt. Looking forward to seeing it’s further development

      • CynAq@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        One thing to know is, the up and downvote buttons don’t do anything to the placement of a comment or post. It’s a general like-dislike marker.

        If you want to upvote something as in the reddit functionality, boost it.