While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we’ve created on on Reddit here, so that people don’t feel like they’re missing out being on kbin.

That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.

I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.

At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.

Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?

We would be leveraging Reddit’s own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That’s the biggest L we could ever deal them.

EDIT: WASN’T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU’RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.

  • nonfuinoncuro
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    1 year ago

    Please post content that matters to you, not to what you think the audience want.

    This. I think the existence of karma and people’s natural obsession for building a “brand” and profile with statistics you can watch increase as you satisfy your audience led to a performative aspect of posting and commenting which resulted in a hive mind mentality and degrading of quality to the lowest common denominator. You see this in popular music, airport books, mainstream media, Hollywood remakes and sequels, housing developments, cars and appliances, Amazon products, and plastic surgery recipients. I’m not sure what the solution is, up/down voting is a very good solution to the old school forums/BBSs that were cluttered with junk, but I think not having karma for posting or commenting on the fediverse is a good first step. I think having the freedom to jump federations and defederate is also key as well as the ability to aggregate/“view all” across all sites allows people to see everything all at once to avoid FOMO.