Jotting some quick notes I’ve observed so far from running /m/scifi for a couple of weeks and getting to 3K subscribers:

  • Even though most people will return to Reddit and it’ll be ‘business as usual’ - the seeds of destruction are already in place.
  • No one is coming to a place where there’s nothing to read / think about / interact with
  • The thing that made Reddit great is content - we came there for content. So when it comes to asking ‘how can we grow Kbin?’ the answer is simple: It’s the content, stupid.
  • Reddit has tons of free content - in the spirit of being a #chaoticgood, we can grab the best parts of that content and use it to make Kbin an interesting, thoughtful place to be
  • Creating spaces with well-thought-out rules to encourage inclusivity, collaborate, and mutual respect. It’s working out well for /m/scifi
  • Redditors know what’s up - they’re pissed at Spez but there’s not much they can do about it. They’ll vote with their feet if we give them a new place to come to.

Thoughts?

    • noodlejetski@kbin.social
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      they’re both parts of the Fediverse and are both link aggregators. similar to how, as a Lemmy user, you can subscribe to a community from a Lemmy instance (“server”) different that you’re on, you can subscribe to kbin communities the same way. I’m posting this comment from my kbin account.

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      kbin isn’t a lemmy instance. It’s server software for running a Reddit-like website, just like lemmy is. There are kbin instances – that is, website running kbin – just like there are lemmy instances (i.e. websites running lemmy).

      Lemmy- and kbin-based websites can share content.

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      Think of it as the people in Lemmy being Outlook users, and the people on Kbin being Gmail users. They’re just different flavors of the same thing (Reddit-like link aggregators, in this case).

      And, as you already know, as a user of one you can interact with the other, and vice versa.

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        Even cooler is that mastodon users can interact with lemmy users sort of