What Reddit features do you not want kbin to have?

This might be an unpopular opinion, but karma/reputation points. It only encourages hivemind and echo chambers. I'm ok with thread-specific points so that content can be ranked, but that's it.

I liked the idea is having awards or little extras that you can award to posts you're keen on, but what I didn't like was that Reddit profited from it

Something like that here might actually be useful as the money could act as donations for the devs to pay for their time / server fees. At least in that way people are getting something small but contributing.

I hope kbin never implements fuzzy votes or shadowbanning.

If you have a system of upvotes and downvotes, don’t falsify the numbers. If you ban users, don’t pretend they aren’t banned.

I never liked the auto-banning feature Reddit had where if you join X subreddit you get a ban from Y subreddit. Dogshit auto moderation like that needs to stay on Reddit tbh

Awards. I just think they're unnecessary for an internet forum.

Ad revenue. I'd rather give money directly to my instance owner.

Shadowbanning. Either outright ban someone and let the community know why, or don't. That's it! Transparency and honesty are the way to go. Arguably this is more of a moderator/admin morality issue than anything else, but still.

All the new crap that theyve added in the last 3-5 years. Chat, spamming me with "recommended" reddits, constantly asking for my interests, slow as hell site, avatars, NFTs,..

Auto generated usernames

Karma scores - on an account level at least. Up/down votes on a post or comment are fine and make sense, pushing bad replies down and the best, most thoughtful stuff to the top.

But a system where accounts can build up a karma/reputation score just leads to karma whoring comments just intended to gain upvotes and adding little to the conversation. Or worse, repost bots just reposting whatever was popular last week to gain karma. Reddit's been plagued with it for years and it just makes the whole place seem spammy and low quality.

NFT avatars 🫠

Anything they force upon you in new Reddit. Compare old to new, and you see that the same amount of page nets you a third of the content. So much bloat. Profile pictures are nice, tags and flairs are nice, but any of the crap they introduced to make things more like Facebook and Twitter can go right in the bin.

All those god damn awards & animations that came with the redesign. It's nothing but bloat & distracting.

An automod which deletes comments with words that are not allowed with zero human review.

I ran into issues using words like "kill" for example, which I understand isn‘t good in the context of calling for violence and should then be modded, but I only used it in a way that should be accepted. Like reacting to a headline which is about people being killed by a government, I should be able to use the word kill in a sentence that criticises that.

Probably why this stupid word unalive now exists is how common it seems to be to censor the word kill entirely, like.. sure, you don‘t want people to incite violence or talk about hurting themselves, that’s reasonable—but it ain‘t going to happen by making a word a taboo!

People just make up new words to say the same thing or use framings like "an action which ends a life" etc so hopefully if this stays small we can have actual human decisions which include context when it comes to censoring.

No 'reddit gold' equivalents, especially paid ones. It's visually displeasing and the system was abused by corporations and people with an agenda.

Live threads...

Chat feature, reddit snoo avatar crap, overdoing it with hundreds of different pointless awards, and inline gifs. (yes I know you can put in images but so far everyone is using them sparingly, and even then i think kbin's UI can handle them better than reddit did).

Karma was supposed to be- does the post fit the sub, if so upvote, if not downvote; but people use it as a meter to say they agree or disagree, like or don't like. It seemed to inspire hatred and anger. There's so much negativity towards others on Reddit. I'm not sure how to stop the antipathy but personally I don't want to see that here.

Also, cross posting from apps like tictok is bothersome. If I want to see this type of thing, I'll go there and watch.

I like how the top comment isn’t always the first one. In Reddit, It felt like if you were one of the first comments on a new post, you were most likely going to have a top comment.

Here it looks like there’s better discussion and you have to scroll through comments and get varying opinions on the topic. This can become more difficult as magazines get bigger and start to get more engagement, but right now it’s nice to see several different comments and not the same message over and over.

I am glad we have normal text formatting here.
Return, means, new line!!!
Also, it's nice to be away from so many useless unhelpful bots. If I wanted to post a Wikipedia synapses, I would have.

What I always hated:
You find a good topic, and basically ALL comments talk about something completly different.. and still get upvoted.
Maybe a thumps up for staying on topic?

profile pictures. it can lead to bias and even be used as a vehicle for propaganda.

there should at least be an option to hide them.

I hated having to go to imgur.com in a desktop tab in Chrome to upload an image, then to figure out the URL, then to swap back to the post in RiF to be able to include the image in a post. That's a 'feature' I'm glad is dead with kbin (and presumably other fediverses) - can attach an image to a reply just by clicking the icon and browsing for it.

I fucking hated profile photos when that was added.

I didn't like my post history being available for public access. For example, if I post in a sub for suicide bereavement, that information is meant for that one small community. I don't necessarily want others to be able to see it and know that personal information. The same could go for victim support, mental health, or other health related subs.

I also don't want to be followed. I know there's a way to turn it off but I learned that way late in the game.

@janWilejan The constant reposts in like 10 subreddits that all make it on /all. Some kind of filter to see if once and be done with it. Though, I think removing Karma/Rep would take care of that.

So the biggest irritation to me is, blocking.

Ostensibly, blocking is meant to halt harassment. On Reddit if somebody has you blocked, you’re barred from participating downthread of them. Harassment shouldn’t be tolerated.

But.

A lot of individuals who want to control narratives and spread misinformation use blocking people as a way to silence people that maybe correct the narrative. With sources.

Or to silence opposing viewpoints, especially when the individual in question is making an argument that doesn’t bear scrutiny.

Also it’s kind of stupid that Reddit prevents you from seeing what they say, but not the other way ‘round- considering I could always pull it into a private tab and view it logged out.

It’s reasonable to prevent a blocked individual from directly replying or interacting, but it’s not reasonable to halt all conversation I might have just because they’re “in the room”, if that makes sense.

decision to IPO which tend to treat users as items to sell

Visible Upvotes. Hear me out. Upvotes much like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter Likes tickle the reward center of our brains and trigger the dopamine response. This in turns incentivizes users behavior more towards "validation seeking" types of behavior, such as DAE/AmITheAsshole/TIL pandering to commonly held beliefs, calls outs (legitimate or questionable), trauma dumping, etc. Whether we like it or not, the mechanics of social media websites/apps influence our behavior, sometimes we are not even aware our or other's behavior is being coerced by these sites. The fewer dopamine-rewarding features that Kbin/Lemmy has, the more we can focus on the content.

Someone needs to open Kbin's settings, go to 'Psycho CEO' and set it to 'Off.'

I know it's going to happen anyways but automod. I don't need a fucking DM because I subscribed, automatic replies or any of that stupid garbage. The worst part is you can't block automod from messaging you either. Nobody uses that shit for anything actually useful, or at least those features of it.

I don't want gold coins, snoovatars, chat rooms, and any of the nonsense that they created over the past 5 years.