What is one thing that you miss the most about reddit?

s804@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 26 points –

I miss that i could google something, write reddit in the end and the results would be honest and not ads or trash

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I think the biggest thing that I didn't really notice at first was just how Reddit 'works'. It was very much 'what you see is what you get' and didn't really take much to figure out how to use it.

With anything new though there's a learning curve and after 24 hours or so on kbin, I'm starting to figure out how this and the wider Fediverse works and it's feeling more and more like home.

Also Reddit is also 18 years old (in a few days) and has 52million+ users so there's obviously more content. As this platform grows it will be easier to get the content you want but at the moment it's going to take some work from the user to search for magazines and contribute.

'what you see is what you get' and didn't really take much to figure out how to use it.

Yeah you say that but...do you remember first going there and seeing like "TIL" "AMA" "AITA" "ELI5" etc shouted at you and having NO IDEA what any of these things meant and it made 0 sense at first?

Yeah very true but I suppose those are just anagrams and each sub has their own in a lot of ways. The user experience of 'Front Page', 'Subreddits' and how to subscribe to them and navigate the site is what I was referring to.

I just recently figured out what IANAL meant after a decade plus on Reddit.

i definitely agree.. Now the site feels natural.

I miss being able to easily find communities (subreddits) about most of my interests.

Mostly the communities that were already niche on reddit.

Yep it was always nice to discover the small and knowledgeable userbase. I hope we get more here

Hm...

  1. More robust formatting, like being able to hide a portion of your text under a clickable spoiler. We already have most of what reddit had in that regard. but spoiler marking is crucial for any community centered on media discussion.
  2. Not reddit, but RES: the ability to click an expando and quick-preview images and videos without loading a separate page, the collapse it back to the compact view once I've seen it.
  3. A centralized inbox where I can see people's replies to me, since notifications seem inconsistent.
  4. RES: The ability to collapse comment threads so I don't have to scroll past deep-nested conversations that are less broadly interesting.

That's really about it, feature-wise. Otherwise it's just a matter of getting the population here to sustain content generation.

Edit: added #4

I miss a few of the more niche communities I belonged to Over There. But I'm trying my best to see it as a fresh start, and a chance to find some new ones. :)

I agree completely. Just yesterday I was trying to get help on a computer problem my son was having. Usually I could just search for the issue with reddit at the end and get sent to a post where someone had a similar problem and others chimed in with possible solutions. I always preferred this because of the variety of answers, as whatever problem I'm having is rarely exactly the same as what the OP is having. Unfortunately all I could find, even without "reddit" at the end of the search, was blacked out reddit posts and thinly veiled ad sites.

I'm sure that lemmy will one day be just as helpful, once it grows and once I'm more familiar with it, but for now the situation is infuriating.

Probably April first. That stuff was usually always very fun, with the exception of the fucking quantum potato.

Go team periwinkle!

Those were always something I looked forward to, after /r/place I don’t even remember any of them.

at this point, nothing. I've found the majority of communities that i want on kbin, the community is far better, less toxic, more helpful

All of the various mental health meme and [x]_irl subreddits, to make fun of all my intrusive thoughts and overall broken-ness and laugh with other people who are doing the same

The niche communities that haven't moved over. Mainly r/twobestfriendsplay and r/regards. Only reason why I will probably keep my reddit account despite everything

Edit: also no rss on kbin makes me sad. It's my favorite way to quickly view my subscribed communities.

All the infomation that could be gone forever , that was my only use of it

I miss having the pulse on news/happenings for Sky: Children of the Light. I know I could start my own magazine, but I'm new here and am not ready for the responsibility tbh