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 not going to lie, I don’t really use any 3rd party reddit app, and I like the official app and all that, but I’ve made the switch because I’m not going to support the CEO of the company doing the same thing that reddit mods get made fun of for. However, kbin is a bit more user unfriendly and it certainly is a learning curve. I haven’t figured out how to see which magazines I’m subscribed to except for hunting them down from the list of mags. I haven’t had any issues with the community yet, and I get how the federation works and all that, I just think kbin is missing some of the features that really made reddit a breeze.
It‘s not intuitive, but you can find your subscriptions in the settings
In terms of features kbin is kinda lacking, but considering that it‘s basically existed only for a few months and has been developed by a single guy it‘s pretty impressive
I‘m sure new features will be added relatively quickly now that a lot of people are willing to help out
I’m really impressed with all the work earnest has done and now is extremely busy doing.
look up top left of your nick on top of the site, there you will see a list icon (three dots with lines after them) Click on that, and then on subscribed I hope I uploaded a picture in my comment correctly :)
How to find your subscribed magazines:
How to see your subscribed content on the home page
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Try out lemmy too. Maybe the UI will fit you better. I made a kbin account too and I actually hope that kbin is the one that catches on, since it supports interaction with mastodon.
That said, I also really miss the subscribed subreddit bar on top of the page like old.reddit.com had.
It’s available. Click on the gear icon below your name at the top right. A menu appears.
Look for “Show top bar” and click yes. Although it’s not fully working yet; but it has the All/Subscribed/Moderate/Favourites buttons. The Mags listed seem to be random at the moment.
Thanks for this! I learn something new every day.
To see the magazines you’re subscribed to, you have to go to your profile. There is a small bar (at least on mobile) next to your username, that starts with overview, threads,… And all the way at the back is subscriptions.
Depending on what you’re using, but on PC if you go to the menu bars by your username there’s an option to filter your feed by different categories including subscribed.
I agree though, would be better to have that in a more noticeable place eventually because it’s not super intuitive.
Go to settings and at the top click on Subscriptions. It lists them all there.
Same, really. on Reddit, I mostly used the desktop interface so the third party app issue did not affect me directly. Still, Reddit emulating Twitter with the whole effectively killing third-party apps and likely putting everything behind a login-wall, combined with their CEO’s tone deaf, smarmy responses… pushed me to jump into the fediverse after contemplating a move for months.
There’s a lot of work to be done here, but I like what I am seeing so far. The best thing is that no one entity controls this, so bad actors’ impact can be mitigated.