I miss Reddit's size

IntendantTradwife@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 133 points –

I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.

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I, too, am a size queen.

Jokes aside, I was telling irl people about how even if I post something to the craft communities, there just isn't a critical mass to make me feel validated from posting.

I made kind of a big overture in many comment sections agreeing with others that kbin felt kinder and different from 2017-present reddit, but then a lot of folks came in and started up the same low-effort content communities and fell back into the same patterns of memes, so now it kind of feels grubby.

And the places on reddit where I loved lurking and reading analyses and hot takes (news, world news, politics) all are total ghost towns in the Fediverse (at least, what early magazines I've subscribed to last weekend).

Whatever the perks are here - and I'm aware it's all a work in progress at this stage - it lacks robustness for me.

I don't know if others have the same strategy but I deliberately did not subscribe to any political magazines. I noticed that since I left Reddit I've been feeling really great and I think it's because I haven't been as exposed to rage inducing political news articles. I'm sticking mainly to chat and Reddit related posts, and I've been posting a little bit on the NYC and Brooklyn kbin.social magazines to try and breathe a little life into them (they have no activity). In short, i am curating my Fediverse experience a bit to be mellow.

Do what you need to do for your mental health, but not paying attention to the bad faith actors is how they have gotten away with so much for so long to the point it is now so brazen.