Ask Kbin! @kbin.social DrChickenbeer @kbin.social 2y ago

Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?

I don't actually think that, but wanted to be the first to complain about it.

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Shit, I remember when I had to check the cloud flare box just to get into kbin and now all you just show up without any extra work. SMH
- You had it easy in my day we had to fight Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login.
  
  Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login
  
  On Captcha?
  
  Uphill, both ways!
  
  … and in the rain!!
- Those were difficult times
- yeah? well when I joined kbin, 503 errors said to check back in a few days!
  
  But it would usually let you go to some other part of kbin 10 minutes later with a nice Capcha of some cat paintings...
- ... UPHILL! BOTH WAYS!
- Kids these days just have everything handed to them
I miss the times where every post was about how shitty reddit is. Now it's only original content. It's really going downhill fast.
- I remember that. People would just removed and moan about how far Reddit had fallen. And how /spez ruined everything.
  
  Now we have to put up with increasingly wholesome and thoughtful content. Oh well.
  
  I can call you some homophobic slur, if that will make you feel better?
- Yeah I miss just browsing through loads of stuff I'm not interested instead of having a bunch of magazines and viewing the subscribed list.
- I hate that the majority of posts on the Fediverse currently is about reddit. Like get over it
I totally agree. The first two weeks of this month were the kbin golden age.

It has been all downhill since then.
- Ah, yes - the Eternal June. It still has not ended.
  
  No, I mean it literally has not ended. It's only the 28th.
FWIW I was on Reddit for twelve years and people complained about the good old days twelve years ago.
- @DrChickenbeer I was on Reddit 17 years ago when all the posts were about Lisp and Python programming. If you asked anyone on the site during any given era, the golden age was when they first understood what the site was about.
  
  That’s true about jobs and life
  
  I dimly remember visiting reddit in the mid 2000s and it seemed to be some programmers sharing pictures of beer.
- So you're the guy who ruined it!
- Man, complaining about the good ol' days 12 years ago...those really were the good ol' days.
IT got worse as soon as I joined. Probably just a coincidence.
When I set up this account two weeks ago, I was led to believe that my salty old.reddit using ass would find a new social utopia, but now its full of people just like me.
- Truly the worst fate. :(
- Birds of a feather...
Lol. Good one
For those who's perplexed, there's a gigantic /s on the entire thread.
I only signed up 30 mins ago and things are already in the shitter
- It's the people. We need to figure out how to have discussion forums without all the people clogging it up with conversations.
  
  Guys, guys. I got it. How about we have a discussion forum... with only bots?
I'm dying at this comment. I really hope it's referred back to years from now as the original hate lol
At the time the network was called kbin.social, it was before it was renamed ernest.online.

In the good old days we have supermods, who owned like 50 magazines, it was the far west, first one first served. it was crazy. I think I saw someone pick up interestingasfuck from the ground. He just found it there. Now he is a billionaire.
I mean, some of us did use kbin before the great reddit influx, so, it could very well be something someone has said genuinely already :)
- I still remember the times, when /kbin consisted mainly of @ernest's science links and federated Lemmy posts. When /kbin was aimed to become an all-encompassing frontpage of the Fediverse, with all content from Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Mobilizon, Friendica, Pixelfed and other fedi software to become, at a glance. When the most exciting thing was the accessibility of new Fedi content types, on the same app. Semantic Web, but determined by folksonomy and decentralised.
  
  And now, having a community? having to listen to them? being simply a Reddit replacement? Seriously? I did not consent to that! /s
  
  I keep seeing people talk about kbin having peertube support? how does that work exactly?
Muscle memory had me downvote. Read the post and had a chuckle then upvoted and boosted
Last time I was this early, it was not even called /kbin. There was only karab.in and it was (well, still it is) in Polish. A polished experience.
Damn Reddit refugees ruined everything.
Noting the url of this post. Expect plenty of reposts as the years click by.
You mean back before the normies found out about it? Definitely. I mean, I wasn't around back then but they tell me it was great.
In the beforetimes we had automods for the top posts. Nothing beats automod top post. I'm crying a single nostalgic tear.
It was just so much better a few days ago when I hadn't read the backlog of posts yet.
Absolutely!
I'm just waiting for a good app. I'll be back for you kbin...
- @PixelPassport Artemis will be here before you know it.
@DrChickenBeer I am sure future internet historians will find this interesting, for the record it says your account is 1 week old did you browse Kbin before that and if so how long?
(Today is the 28th of June 2023 for future Kbinites.)
- @Gamers_Mate I hadn't heard about it before that day. I started looking for Reddit alternatives as soon as the whole API thing happened (which I found out due to a popup in RIF). I did have a Mastodon account, but didn't really understand the Fediverse until sometime this week.
  
  @DrChickenBeer
Based on how people keep complaining on hackernews about "this forum has turned into reddit" every once in a while for the last 12 years, I suspect the same stuff will happen here.

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