Reddit Migration

It‘s not intuitive, but you can find your subscriptions in the settings

In terms of features kbin is kinda lacking, but considering that it‘s basically existed only for a few months and has been developed by a single guy it‘s pretty impressive

I‘m sure new features will be added relatively quickly now that a lot of people are willing to help out

look up top left of your nick on top of the site, there you will see a list icon (three dots with lines after them) Click on that, and then on subscribed I hope I uploaded a picture in my comment correctly :)

How to find your subscribed magazines:

• Hover on your name at the top right of Kbin
• Click on "settings"
• On the bar at the top, select "subscriptions"

How to see your subscribed content on the home page

• Hover over the icon to the left of your name (the icon is 3 rows of 1 dot and 1 dash)
• Select "subscribed" to see subscribed content only

OR

• Visit /sub on the server you're on (e.g. kbin.social/sub)

OR

• Click on the "gear" icon just below your name
• Look for "Show top bar" and click on "yes"
• This will show an old school reddit style/reddit enhancement suite style top bar, with "All", "Subscribed", "Moderated" and "Favourites" buttons on the top left corner.

Depending on what you're using, but on PC if you go to the menu bars by your username there's an option to filter your feed by different categories including subscribed.

I agree though, would be better to have that in a more noticeable place eventually because it's not super intuitive.

To see the magazines you're subscribed to, you have to go to your profile. There is a small bar (at least on mobile) next to your username, that starts with overview, threads,... And all the way at the back is subscriptions.

Try out lemmy too. Maybe the UI will fit you better. I made a kbin account too and I actually hope that kbin is the one that catches on, since it supports interaction with mastodon.

That said, I also really miss the subscribed subreddit bar on top of the page like old.reddit.com had.

Go to settings and at the top click on Subscriptions. It lists them all there.

Agreed, Reddit was needing a culling, I’m all for this fresh start even if it’s less people. Hate to sound like a internet hipster but something can become too mainstream lol

Same thing over here. It seems that karma being absolutely irrelevant makes us more confident and more prone to participate in discussions and content. That, or maybe the lack of toxicity and vitriol.

That much is true. I love how the upvote/downvote system works on Kbin much better, since there isn't just one total karma sum number.

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I used to go to bed after 3am sometimes reading that damned site. I think I did 1:30 last night. I really desperately needed to get away from there. Nothing about it was healthy. I can get my stupid depthhub and TIL style information from Wikipedia. I will miss the professionals chiming in until that starts to happen around here.

I definitely welcome the detox. I think I might have even felt it for real the first couple of days.

It might get more addictive but there's still not the same incentive to design for more engagement like on mainstream social media.

About NSFW content randomly popping up, I actually haven't seen any of it yet.
But still I wouldn't scroll any of the fediverse (or Twitter if I was still there) around people. Never know for sure what will pop up.

There are Kbin styles and scripts being shared.

This one blurs NSFW domains which helps a bit (among many other features): https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/27201/kbin-enhancement-script-QOL-updates-for-the-kbin-UI

There may be others in that Mag: m/kbinStyles/ (I'm on kbin.social so the link goes direct to there; I'm still not sure how to share fediverse links in a less server specific way!)

Also obviously you need to tick "Hide adult content" under settings, but that currently relies on people flagging content appropriately when posting. Hopefully Kbin and Lemmy will move rapidly to autoflagging content in whole communities as NSFW to make that better.

Aside from the hide NSFW toggle, another workaround is to simply toggle off thumbnails.

I think that's a conscious design choice - trying to drive people to read the existing comments before posting their own.

This workaround may help.

I as well feel more engaged in every fediverse community I'm part of.
I've even been tooting on mastodon, when I don't even have a twitter. It's fascinating how a welcoming community can make you feel at ease.

Agreed, less people makes it also feels more personal, and less daunting to interact sometimes.

I feel that the "small" bump it has to be accessible makes it interesting for people that really want to access it. The 15 likes on a post feel like 15 real people, engaged, interested, and hit completely different from the 1.5k likes a post in reddit would get.

feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.

That's been my issue with Reddit for a while now. People are extremely polarized on everything. You can't have a conversation about a casual disagreement without being downvoted to oblivion and people interpreting it as a personal attack. The smaller, focused subs are better, but still fall firmly into the groupthink dynamic of the rest of the site.

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