Frozyre

I was a frequent Kbin.social user and I miss it. But also, you have to move on when the end is reached for the foreseeable future. One of the strengths of the Fediverse, is that you can make an account on something like MBin and still interact with Lemmy instances as if you were registered on Lemmy. Anything that makes me use one account and supports cross-platform is a major plus in my book.

Oh and uh maybe some of those running Lemmy, i.e mods, are kind of scummy so I don’t want to be at their mercy if I was just registered to Lemmy.

I disagree. The Reddit community at large is a bunch of spiteful shitposters who’ll spin anything and everything you put infront of them. They’ve done this for years.

It is the worst place for anyone with mental instability issues to frequent or seek advice in. Mainly because as we all know, Spez doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s privacy so anyone can just comb through your profile and stockpile ammo from you. Things you wouldn’t tell anyone else - now it’s in their hands. Information you thought was “safe” - now they know.

There are other places out there that are more knowledgable and credible than Reddit pretends to be. Plus, they care about privacy. Like there’s a suicide forum out there that will not let anyone outside, who hasn’t registered anyways, to view the contents of the forum. Does Reddit do that? No, not even if you’re a subscriber!

I don’t see a lot of dietitians, therapists, nutritionists, psychologists .etc spending all of their hard work to get the credentials to be where they want to be, just so they can offer sound and legitimate advice on a platform that doesn’t give a single shit.

Don’t underestimate Reddit coomers. They gots to coom and they’ll pay to coom.

We were seeing the warning signs already by the amount of bots and spammers who were taking over abandoned instances. They just posted a lot of garbage that filled up everywhere they went. And there was almost nobody there to deal with them. Ernest being out of action for prolonged periods didn’t help this.

I really hated to see kbin social get mistreated this way considering it was my true alternative since Lemmy got mostly bombarded with former Reddit users that took that over and made it their own.

Kbin social is a learning lesson that if you’re unable to maintain something due to personal problems, it is time to hand over the reigns. Ernest did do that but I’m not really sure if the person running it now knows what to do.