Howdy Y’all,

With the subreddit opening today there’s been plenty of questions regarding whether or not we’d be shutting down this instance.

Short answer is : “No”

Long answer is : “Noooooooooooo”

There’s no reason to, and as far as things go this has mostly been ignored by the mod team at large, outside of a few of us (me, gloom, willpauer) there really hasn’t been any legitimate discussion or focus given.

With that, I don’t intend to close this magazine, and instead keep it open and, if anything, try to more actively work on building an alternative community here as an offshoot for those who prefer to stick to the fediverse rather than reddit going forward.

That being said, kbin is having it’s growing pains and there is discussion about this versus Lemmy, I am open to any discussions or suggestions about what next steps we should consider in this community.

For those of you who have been trying to grow something here: I see you, I respect you, and I don’t intend to do anything to stifle that.

Whatever reason you have for coming to this corner of the IWC, as long as you’re respecting one another you’re welcome here.

  • JelloBrains@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    discussion about this versus Lemmy,

    I think Kbin looks and functions better than Lemmy, at the same time I also know that Lemmy feels a bit more Reddit-like thanks to its threaded forum style as opposed to Kbin’s BB forum style. Either way, it’s not really necessary to choose one or the other in the long run, thanks to federation, be it here or Lemmy I should be able to follow the content without leaving here.

    if anything, try to more actively work on building an alternative community here as an offshoot for those who prefer to stick to the fediverse rather than reddit going forward.

    I’m not necessarily opposed to using Reddit, I think there are a lot of great communities there, but I think after seeing everything Spez has done and especially the way they’ve acted, something else horrendous is likely coming, just look at Musk and Twitter.

    I very much would like to see more activity here, and I know that should have come from us here already helping. Perhaps we could all make more effort. I don’t even really need the latest rumors, I’d be happy with some weekly show discussions, not even needing them to be live threads.

    as far as things go this has mostly been ignored by the mod team at large, outside of a few of us (me, gloom, willpauer) there really hasn’t been any legitimate discussion or focus given.

    It’s that damn discord generation. shakes fist in air /s

    Seriously, I’m glad you tried, it was always worth a shot, even if in the end it doesn’t work out.