The best possibility is something like I’ve done. I split my social media time between here, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, and a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate (in addition to being a viewer on YouTube & PeerTube). You can’t hold all the people all the time. It’s just not feasible. So yes, people going back to Reddit is expected. But it’s when they come back and find something they want that’s important.
I’m going to present the opposite opinion to yours here. Kbin represents the best way forward for social media, to me. If we can get a working PeerTube integration after Threads federates, I’m all set. It’s what Google Plus was supposed to be, it’s why I first (as a user) used TweetDeck back in the day. It puts everything in one place again. I was a LiveJournal user back in the day, which was another place like this - communication & community, but individual places for your thoughts. I tried Tumblr for a while and it was close to an LJ replacement.
Everything since then has fractured and fragmented so we have very aggressive echo chambers, but no private places. This might be able to give that back to the users.
I accept that it can feel like drinking from the firehose at the start. It was to me at first too, but I was aware of Lemmy early on, and I was on two Mastodon instances that didn’t cofederate. I knew what I was going in for. I stepped back from Kbin when a known tech issue degraded my experience, and it’s been fixed. I think the thing is that Kbin allows you to curate your own experience, rather than be tied into doing one thing or another all the time.
I think when Kbin is ready for prime time and when the major issues are fixed, there might be a need to look at the first-timer experience, maybe even a tutorial. Because it’s not a beginner focused interface. It’s meant for us who want it all back in one place, and accepted the burden of experience that means.
Because Threads presents an opportunity to grow the community on ActivityPub services, and because the Fediverse presents the opportunity to extend the community I’m involved in that’s on Threads right now. My hope is that if that group respects what the Fediverse offers, they will also start sharing the podcast on PeerTube
My hand is raised.
I’m getting back into Digimon World: Dawn recently.
kbin finally has notifications not throwing an error every time I try to check them, so that much is nice now. I’ve actually had no problems with the Reddit software on my phone, and I’ve unsubbed from most of the communities I was part of there which moved across to lemmy. That choice has really trimmed my experience down to a more focused one nicely. I’ve also gotten done turning federation back off as I want it to be, and my user block list here is getting pretty long, blocking out the spammers that come across my feed.
Of course, because kbin is still one of the smallest sites related to the ActivityPub protocol, there’s limited content here compared to Reddit, Then again, there’s also less content on all of PeerTube (let alone a single site) than there is on YouTube, and I’d take a shot at saying that even Threads has the largest Mastodon community beat by a country mile, let alone what Twitter still has.
So basically, I guess I’d say I’m not a refugee, I’m just doing as I did with Facebook when it first launched after MySpace and Friendster - keeping my options open and looking around.
When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.
Laptops, Chromebook, tablets (iPad and Android), and an android phone. I’ve basically got everything but an actual desktop (which is fair since I don’t have a desk).
The “corpo drones” in this case are people willing to follow the directions from Reddit/Advance Media, but not get paid.
I have so many shows I need to catch up on that I could never run out of “new-to-me” media. But there’s some I could suggest:
I do find that interesting - but the status site doesn’t list API requests; and they don’t have any diagnosis yet. I wonder if this is come kind of DOS.
After the 2-day blackout, I went back to using it as normal. Now, I usually have two tabs open; one for kbin, one for Reddit. On my phone, I have the Reddit app, and while it’s heavier than RedReader, it works well enough. I just make sure to tap every ad I see, to drive up the advertisers’ costs and help to drop campaign conversion.
And it’s not indexed or archived in any public way.
Is there any Owncast host that’s similar to YouTube or Twitch in terms of relative painlessness? If it requires each person host their own caster instance, it’s not going to gain wide adoption.
The amount of Excel/spreadsheets I use in my hobbies and “leisure” time is massive. Otherwise, it’s mostly about having surrendered to the presence of online ads.
Super Mario Bros. - I’m sorry for Hopper & Hoskins’ experiences (RIP). But between the directorial chaos, editorial saves, and constant drunkenness, they turned out a pretty solid dark cyberpunk movie that feels more like “two New York plumbers save the day” than the recent movie. The visuals mostly still hold up, the story is okay. There’s maybe a few things that could be improved, but overall I don’t think it’s all that bad.
Given that there were 2 TV shows with the same tone, and a whole Evil Dead reboot thing, it’s safe to say that Army of Darkness has gotten it’s fair praise.
Dredd was a great movie. It’s an apology to the fans after the Stallone movie.
I’m confident in saying that Speed Racer is the best Wachowski film.
Maybe on your instance - it’s your loss. But admins have a choice - defed from them and lose access to all those users and having actual content worth looking at, or federate with them and actually grow your network into something that has enough going on to make people interested. As it is, I use Threads right now. I strongly prefer it to Mastodon. Kbin comes close, but has less content to idly scroll through. If no Fediverse site I use supports Threads, I’ll keep on using it.