I understand why they did it, four mods is not enough for the traffic. However, I think they could've anticipated this better than just removing one of the largest instances. Hire more mods. It seems beehaw has banned so much that I am honestly unsure why they want to be federated. I like the idea of beehaw, some things, like limited communities and no downvotes are really smart. But the closed community mindset may kill it.

Doing that! But still would like an alternative for reddit.

I'm asexual as fuck so the lack of horniness is my jam.

If it helps, I joined kbin cause I like the UI more :P

It was fine when there was three (some comments here say back when there was one...or two which I guess depends on joining point haha). But I personally found the balance between gold, silver, and platinum the sweet spot. Gold for really good posts, silver for posts that, while not as good as gold, were still pretty helpful/decent, platinum being the best of the three, where the post was so extraordinary it deserved more than gold.

When they added more rewards it removed the whole flow. All of them were the most worthless, cringworthy memes, and a lot of them were given out for literally free. To make things worse, they were often misused as well, there were a ton of posts marked with the cringe "wholesome" award that were very not wholesome because the users awarding didn't have any of the other free awards and couldn't pay.

Getting reddit gold beforehand was already having a perception of being "cringe" but I think the addition of the many "meme awards" only made things worse. I think it would have been better if a system was implemented where awards could have been voted upon to posts that truly deserved it or were considered "historic" in some way.

Wow it's insane how fast technology goes. Feels like yesterday the first LCDs were releasing, but apparently not!

they already bought alien blue and ruined it.

Had no idea! Thanks for informing me. I will keep this post up because I think it is an interesting discussion to have

its probably my favorite feature of lemmy/kbin

Congrats on the growth .world!

Safari allows you to install adblockers, there's multiple options too. Most vpns these days also come with adblock even if your browser doesn't allow it.

I am not sure what interface(s) or the conditions are, but apparently every post now has a reddit watermark. Presumably for people trying to repost their work to other sites.

In that moment, I will use piped. If piped goes down, I will use nebula. Anything over paying youtube.

My top ones:

DuckDuckGo - may not be as private as they claim, but has been my go-to for years. Simple, but feature-full and still mostly decent for search.

Marginalia - a search engine that favors text heavy websites, perfect for research

Searx instance - not my main due to how spotty the instances can be and lazy to set up mine. But can basically grab stuff from all the "big" search engines, which saves a lot of time. I don't consider it a godsend like most people do, though. As since big engines can give poor results.

frogfind - a duckduckgo interface meant for older computers that converts webpages to basic html. Perfect for news articles and tutorials where you want to skip the "fluff".

Use redirector! Here's one i will copy paste for everyone to use:

Description: reddit bye bye
Example URL:https://www.reddit.com/*
Include pattern:https://www.reddit.com/*
Redirect to:https://lemmy.ml/$

Make sure to replace lemmy.ml with your instance of choice and reddit.com with old reddit if you default to that (I always had "use redesign" turned off in my account settings).

For bonus fun, you can copy redirects with the extension, so you can adjust for your favorite subreddits if you choose.

I think it would take a while for any social media to have one, then again I didn't expect Reddit to shit the bed the way it has. If there's any that I think will be specifically fast, it would be Twitch.

Youtube is the least likely, no matter how many times it shits the bed, people stick to it because all the other video sharing services simply aren't supported by the big content creators.

It's weird but I like how can you see the ratio of upvotes and downvotes for each post/comment people make. It makes it feel less like a mob going towards/against a single thing and more personal.

Awards were fine when there was only three of them: gold, silver, platinum. Once they added twenty billion, all meaning the awards once had were lost, especially since many of them were given to users for free when they were once paid only.

I've gotten it a few times, but today was the max point. I am guessing the api news is bringing reddit's capacity over the edge? That's just a guess though.

I broke reddit not once, not twice, but three times today.