I tried out my own, one person instance, and I had a hard time getting comments to pull in. I would have to browse to the original instance to view all of the comments. Have you found a good way to overcome that?
I switched back to a more public instance just because I found the process of going out to view the content, back to my own instance if I wanted to comment, then back to the original again to keep reading the discussion very tedious.
Being on a more populated server seems to give most if not all of the comments directly.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
Back when blogs were a bigger thing, they would be setup with RSS to “push out” notifications when new posts were published. (Technically your RSS client pulls the RSS feeds but the end result is the same - the feed is just a list of posts basically).
You open up your RSS client or site and there will be a list of sites you’re “following” and any new posts they’ve made.
Plenty of sites still support RSS. A lot of readers can pull the RSS feed automatically if you just give them the site URL/web address.
My personal choice is NewsBlur which is at https://NewsBlur.com. You can get a free account there to try it out.
I had an account there for over 10 years (I think 12, actually? - not going to login and check right now) and yes, as far as I remember it was a very similar start. A bit small. A bit broken. But definitely a similar vibe as to what I'm getting from Lemmy/Kbin
The Road haunted me for days. Now that I have offspring I don’t think I can ever read it again.
Agreed 100% but you also have to remember it took Reddit years to get to that point. You’re losing a community that was already built for you, but you can focus on building it back here in the Fediverse.
If you are into word games, Paperback Adventures is a lot of fun!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/338468/paperback-adventures
Inertia is a thing, both in a positive and negative way. What I mean by that is, you can reach a threshold where people are leaving fast enough that Reddit will lose more people than not (positive from our current point of view).
The other way it works is people are just so used to Reddit and the habit returns quickly once the blackout is over (negative from our point of view).
Which way will this go? My pessimistic outlook is that tons of people are exploring Lemmy/KBin/whatever fediverse thing now while they have a Reddit sized hole in their daily routines, but once Reddit is back they will go back there. I think this is shown in how Twitter users bailed off pretty hard at first and Mastodon got a bunch of new people but those people slowly went back to Twitter. Some people will stay at the new place for sure, but a lot won't. None of that is really a problem per se, either.
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