The hard part of recreating the Reddit experience while kbin gets off the ground is that there’s very little stuff to repost.

  • Yoshizuki@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As an old Redditor, I hated reposts or crossposts. This is not creating contents, it’s just flooding a sub/magazine with the same thing. Karma farming was a dumb thing that screwed content diversity.

    • D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Does kbin have a “karma” of sorts? Because I’m now wondering if removing that mechanism wouldn’t be good for originality. The only effect karma had on me was that I wanted to get more of it, like a score to increase. And it’s definitely a major contributor to reposting

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    1 year ago

    I think it’s a good opportunity for renewal: since Kbin is so young, it doesn’t have the vices or the overwhelming amount of contents from Reddit, while also having a simpler and less intimidating UI.
    So if the user sees a magazine/community that seems even a little interesting, I think it’s worth subscribing. There’s a chance it’s a good community the user always skipped on Reddit for the aforementioned reasons.
    And that’s also what I’ve been doing, and I certainly don’t regret.

    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It is the act of duplicating someone else’s original content that is posted previously into another magazine other than where it was originally posted. Often, the repost submitter takes full credit of someone else’s original content to make it seem as the originator is the person who created the duplicate.