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RIP RIF. I’m another one who used it 99% of the time. I’m glad I found kbin and I’m mostly over reddit, but I’m not over RIF. Thank you for all those years. Fuck you u/spez for destroying the site I’ve been a part of for almost 10 years… in a single week.

I say let’s not even give them a chance. We owe them nothing.

Maybe it’s silly, but i love that I haven’t seen a single one-word reply such as “*their”.

EDIT: omg, what about those infinite threads of “this” or forced puns? Haven’t seen those either (and I love bad puns, but those usually contributed very little)

I just realized that it’s hard to imagine someone saying you should speak English because lemmy/kbin is an amaerican website. I’m sure we’ve all seen that more than once on reddit.

Good God, Lemmy! 🍋

Yep! Kinda surreal to see that something like this is even possible since it seems like a contradiction.

Exactly. On reddit I’d probably type out this comment, see that the post is X hours old or see that there are already 5000 replies and think “meh, no one will see this anyway. Best case scenario I get an upvote or two”. But here I feel like I’m part of a conversation and actually contributing something.

I wonder if anyone at reddit is starting to think “wait… maybe the community IS important?” Nah, probably not.

Reminds me of stories I’ve heard of dictatorships where newspapers would replace censored articles with random things, so you’d see in the economy section a full page with a cookie recipe, stuff like that.

My curiosity about kbin has become much greater than my desire to go back to reddit which is really weird. Definitely NOT what I had in mind, but I’ll take it!

Yeah, I’m so used to not having to put in effort lol. On reddit I’d only comment whenever I felt I wanted to say something. I rarely posted because my post would usually just get drowned out by others.

I think in the beginning we all have to lower our standards a bit when posting. As in create a Harry Potter magazine and post “who’s your favorite character and why?”. You know, stuff that we’d never consider posting on reddit because it’s probably been posted a million times. Simple stuff to get started.

Also, for those that want karma (reputation?), realizing that being starved for content means your posts will likely get more attention.

Now let me go relax after work and be a hypocrite… (no, but I’ll definitely put in more effort!)

Strangely cozy, isn’t it? It’s like moving from the big city to a nice cabin in the woods. “Hmm, a bit different, but I could get used to this!”

Exactly this. I’ve used RIF since forever, so RIF is Reddit for me. Even if they take it all back and everything goes back to normal, there’s still a bad taste in my mouth. Reddit is clearly against the community, literally fighting it. Not even trying to find some sort of compromise or anything. So screw it, kbin seems pretty cozy so far, to be honest.