The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

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    Anyone have the numbers of today’s new users for any of the kbin or Lemmy instances?

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    When RIF died today a part of me died. But with death comes rebirth, and here we are. Forcibly pushed out of our comfort zones and into the brave new world of the fediverse. I have a feeling I will look upon this day with the same joy and reverence as the day my friend download rif on my phone for me all those years ago. It felt weird at first then became something I used almost every day. I have a feeling the same will happen here. We’re all about to create something beautiful. Oh yeah and fuck spez

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      I’m happier here. I feel like I’m surrounded by intelligent people again. The reddit userbase had become hot garbage during the past 5 or so years.

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        Same for me. I feel like the reason kbin in particular feels so much like coming back to a long lost home is because it appeals to the old guard of reddit, people with 10+ year accounts who really just wanted an aggregated collection of forums for niche interests. Reddit kept getting shittier as that format got diluted and they tried to push it towards being mainstream social media.

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    Fuck /u/spez, and more importantly, welcome to everyone coming in today. It’s been amazing watching the growth of kbin, and I’m super thankful for the developers who have kept me connected to my communities - first Christian, now Ernest. I’ve never been in on the ground floor of anything and this has been absolutely wild.

    Kinda mad I didn’t grab a short handle while I could, but I wasn’t thinking and just used the same as I had on Reddit. sigh

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      Deleted my account of 11 years just now as well after verifying PowerDeleteSuite didn’t miss anything the past few days. I thought this would be my hardest non-federated social media account to delete, since it was the last one standing and the one I used most. After what I’ve seen this month, it’s an easy delete. My time there is done.

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        Is PowerDeleteSuite working since the API change? I would like to edit all of my comments but didn’t get round to it before the change.

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          No idea. Give it a try and report back? It’s easy to use, shouldn’t take too long to find out :)

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    A fair number of people seem to be spilling out into Lemmy, kbin, squabbles and other places. Be keen to see how the growth accelerates over the next few weeks as people weigh up their options.

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      I think once some nice 3rd party apps get rolling we’ll see a lot more adoption as well

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      Problem with squabbles is that it has sole ownership. Can literally turn into reddit or Digg again.

      Good to know there are a bunch of alternatives though.

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        Yeah a few friends have spread out, reach looking into new replacements. Kbin got my attention since it’s open source and PHP based, so it’s something I can jump right into and fix up issues. Lots of people working on fixing up several parts of the site to make it even better

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      This feels like a good landing site.

      It’'s taking me a while to learn navigation and buttons etc - no disrespect to developers, that’s just me.

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        It’s a whole new system so it’s going to take a while to get used to it. There’s several things behind the scenes getting improved, lots of new UI improvements pending

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    I want to compare this to how I felt about Digg, but it’s different. Digg was a platform that was okay, but then the redesigns happened and I didn’t care about wanting to leave.there wasn’t anything there that I really cared about. I remember finding Reddit in undergrad, creating the University’s subreddit, and watching it grow. I was active on subs I cared about, topics where my passions lie. Now it’s all gone, and time to start again.

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      I absolutely mourn the loss of a useful tool and my awesome communities. but I’m pretty excited to be watching something new grow out of it.