I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
I’m finding I post and comment at like ten times the rate I did on reddit. The actual user interactions over here are MILES better.
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
Quality over quantity. Not a slight to reddit users still on reddit. I guess the lack of a karma system doesn’t encourage karma farming. The lack of bots also help, i guess.
There’s also the fact people on new reddit and the official app have “recommendations” in their feeds. The whole point of reddit to me was self-curation. Now it’s just yet another algo-driven doom-scrolling hook.
This is such a brilliant way of putting it
you nailed it. Even when I went to reddit to read tech tips or check in with my gardening community, I got sucked into outrage topics that were pinned everywhere. It was slow how it happened too
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.
It didn’t even occur to me that I can see the downvote count, wow. That’s how Reddit used to be too, so it didn’t register as different, I guess.
@cody has been doing some work revamping parts of the UI, including the voting buttons. See his post here and let him know what you think.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign/p/375852