a few thousand people coming together to make the entirety of r/place say "FUCK SPEZ" at the end is insane but we all know they're just gonna go back to using reddit in like 20 minutes

@RedditMigration@kbin.social

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2012318

Links:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Edge - v1.2.3 is still being approved, you can grab the release from Github if you are eager
• Opera: Still under review, please download from Chrome webstore or Github release.

For questions / support: !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca (alternate: https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant)

What's new?

(read on the wiki)

• You can now customize the instance list to match which instances you actually use. This should be helpful for those that have accounts on different instances.
• Added a settings page so that you can turn off features that you don't want active
• Added buttons for helpful tools that let you explore Lemmy/Kbin communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com).
• Added a sidebar for those that prefer it (works on Firefox, Chrome & Opera; Edge doesn't have sidebars yet but the code is there)
• Fix for issues with the search trigger on the community not found page (thank-you to whqwert!)
• Various bugfixes, small theme changes, and improved wording

What's coming up?

(read on the wiki)

• Working with the amazing /u/howdy@thesimplecorner.org to bring over features from the LemmyTools Userscript^1^
• Integrating lemmyverse.net and search-lemmy.com so you can do everything right on your community page^2^
• Adding icons and simplifying the design, as the UI is getting wordy
• Adding support for alternative home instances (ex. Alexandrite - Issue 14)
• Ability to have multiple 'home instances', so you can open it in any without having to change your home instance each time.
• Finishing the setup so that people can contribute translations / other languages to the extension.
• Getting the extension on Opera (no immediate plans, but this would be good to have)

More details:

1. /u/howdy@thesimplecorner.org has created a really useful userscript that you can find here: https://thesimplecorner.org/c/lemmytools. We're going to be working together to bring those features into Instance Assistant, so that you can have all the features in one place.

2. Right now there are buttons to explore Lemmy/Kbin communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com). Both of these take you to the respective webpages. Instead, it might be nicer to have a lightweight version right on the Lemmy/Kbin community page (or in the extension popup/sidebar). This should be possible using their APIs/data access, and I have a little working proof of concept already (see GitHub)

I'm new, what is this?

Instance Assistant is a browser extension that started out as a way to quickly jump from one community to the version on your home instance, so that you could subscribe/participate immediately. Since then, a few other features have been implemented:

Features

• Redirect to your home instance:
  • Buttons will be added to the sidebar of any Lemmy or Kbin community you visit, which will let you open the same community on your home instance.
• Open links in home instance:
  • Right click context menu will allow you to open any links in your home instance
• Improved Error Pages:
  • 'Community not found' pages now have better information, a button to trigger a fetch, a button to open a community in the source instance, and more.
• Customizable popup & sidebar menus:
  • Customizable list of instances to let you quickly switch home instances. This is great for if you have multiple accounts on different instances.
  • There are also buttons for helpful tools that let you search for communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com).
• Settings:
  • You can change the default behaviour of the extension, customize the popup & sidebar menus, and turn off features you don't want to use.

Did Google help reddit? A short time ago the score for the reddit app was down around 3.2 as everyone gave it 1 star for how bad it was and all the drama going on. I just opened the play store today and the app has a 4.2. Did Google delete or discount some of those reviews?

I'm in the post-ban blackpilled mode right no so please forgive me. I know reddit is falling apart but it isn't happening fast enough. Is there any hope that the whole site will be destroyed? I really just want the whole site / app completely destroyed and thew Vichyite mods unable to have their power trips anymore.

Haven’t touched Reddit since 7/1 but decided to go back and unsubscribe from every sub today. Figure even if I’m not an active user, I’m also now not a number they can point to as success.

But holy shit, the ads I had to see. They’re bigger and more more blatant than I remember. I can only assume that they throw them right at the top of every feed to get that view before you leave.

Fuck Reddit.

Haven’t touched Reddit since 7/1 but decided to go back and unsubscribe from every sub today. Figure even if I’m not an active user, I’m also now not a number they can point to as success.

But holy shit, the ads I had to see. They’re bigger and more more blatant than I remember. I can only assume that they throw them right at the top of every feed to get that view before you leave.

Fuck Reddit.

Article by crypto crap website CoinDesk: Some Reddit manager hyped their NFTs at a crypto conference

Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin) -- maybe this is the wrong magazine for that; but I think it's relevant

So; we've got something special right here; a federated, thread based forum; but we're still on the forefront right now; most people are still stuck on the old thing; reddit--they'll come in time, but they usually have a hard time getting here--largely because they don't know what "here" is.

Say Lemmy or Kbin, and you've already got problems; you've got to explain all the details of the platform, and how Lemmy and Kbin are really the same thing, etc, etc--too specific--

Say Fediverse, and you've got the opposite problem; too broad and vague, such that nobody will know what you're talking about unless you unload a whole pile of overwhelming details--we need a term that talks about only this segment of the Fediverse; the thread based forum portion--just as the World Wide Web could only really catch on once terms like, "internet" or "web" became widespread, the federated alternative to Reddit will only catch on once it has a name too--it's a branding game.

Thus, if we want to beat Reddit at branding, we need a better name than them--In my opinon, "Threadiverse" is the best name for the job, for reasons I'll lay out below:

First off; any good name communicates a lot of information--like how "Reddit" contains both "Read+it" and Red, the colour associated with their brand--it's made up of those three parts, plus the company name:

"Reddit"=Read+It+Red+Reddit

We, however, don't have a company, and are thus not bound by a need for that kind of recognizeability--we're looking for a new term; a term like internet; that doesn't need to communicate anything other than what the platform is.

So enter Threadiverse;

Like "Reddit", "Threadiverse" is made up of a number of parts--first, and most obviously to an outside observer you've got thread+universe. Simple, and easy to remember, just like "Reddit" is from Read and it. But we've got more depth too, just like Reddit does; but unlike Reddit, our term has two deeper meanings; first, again, more obvious to an outside observer we have "diverse"--what we want our platform to be: a diverse marketplace of ideas; where reddit has "red" the colour of their brand, a superficial bit of brand information, and representation of their existence as a corporation, we have another descriptor of ourselves--all this is not even to mention "Fediverse", the term we take to get "Threadiverse" in the first place, but that part is not relevant to the outside observer who knows nothing of the platform, its makeup, or its history.

so in short; within that name we've got one more bit of meaning than they do, and, rather than using most of our meanings to communicate superficial brand information, as Reddit does with having their company colour as part of their name; we have "diverse", as our goal is not to be a company, as Reddit's is, but to be diverse marketplace of ideas, and an exchange of useful information.

TL:DR:
"Threadiverse": Thread+Universe+Diverse+Fediverse+Threadiverse
"Reddit": Read+it+Red+Reddit
More info = good; therefore "Threadiverse">"Reddit".

And therefore "Threadiverse" is probably one of the best names our platform can have.

I'm certainly not the first person to use the term "Threadiverse"; but I haven't seen much discussion of why it's the name we ought to be using--and none about why that in particular matters for getting people to understand the platform--hence why I'm making a post about it--a post which I meant to make two weeks ago, but accidentally deleted instead; so here it is now.

Thanks to @cat 's post, and a lot of the top comments, for getting me to think about this a bit more--check that out for more reasons why we ought to be using a name like "Threadiverse".

Anyway; those are my 2 cents (or 20) on the matter of names, and why Threadiverse is a good one; thoughts?

https://beebom.com/reddit-alternatives/

No Squabbles.io, Tildes, or Discuit, but somehow digs deep enough to find Saidit.net, Hive, Quora (IRK!?), 4Chan (spit-take: yes, you read that correctly), Imgur, Slashdot, and 9Gag (hey, I did not write this, alright?:-P), and # 15 is Digg!

You said you wanted to know if Kbin was mentioned in the media though, so here it is:-D.

I've looked around but haven't found updates on if or where the subreddit migrated.

I searched for instances on Lemmy. There are 4 but they're unmoderated or appear to be moderated by a bot.

The askhistorians.org website still links to the subreddit.

The subreddit itself seems to be open, but the list of moderators is hidden (probably because I deleted my reddit account).

I found some chatter on Discord, but not an actual server.

Thanks!

One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately.

Umm...yeah.

I was searching info on a crypto scam and saw that now reddit has jumped on the crypto bandwagon too? Everything must be on a blockchain for some reason

Just deleted my 12+ year account on Reddit and I'm still feeling weird.

Was a long time lurker. My grand total of upvotes reached 4K!

I used Redact to remove my comments; there were so few posts I could delete them on my own.

Experiencing those feelings of 'oh, this is a toxic relationship; but I really don't want to leave because there's this groove and so much history'

That's it. It is HISTORY.

and now I'm out

Old habit, I opened rif and it loads current posts! What's going on?

https://hackernoon.com/discussing-three-reddit-alternatives-after-reddits-api-decisions

Not much else needs to be said tbh. Fuck Spez.

Edit: Not sure why imgur marked the album as NSFW, but there's nothing NSFW in it other than the name of one of the mods including the word "bitch"

This is the user's 3rd post. Let's see how long before that is also taken down! 🤣

Screenshot:

Long-screenshot:

Edit: Seems like Lemmy just compresses long-screenshots, so here's imgur link:

https://i.imgur.com/3hrxeXt.jpg

Original post (this is the 3rd post, it was too late for me to see the other 2 posts):

https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/155emuz/so_i_cant_even_post_about_the_abuse_going_on_here/

Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230721110216/https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/155emuz/so_i_cant_even_post_about_the_abuse_going_on_here/

Hardly ever used it, but got a notification from it on my phone the other day which reminded me I still had it on my phone. It was still linked to my old reddit username which got suspended permanently a month or two back, so I finally got around to taking it off.

Just a reminder for those of us who mostly used reddit via laptop etc - you may still have it on your phone but forgotten about it - if a bunch of people uninstall it that will not look good for them

This popped up on reddit when I clicked a web search result. Just what we've always wanted.