@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.

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livus 4 points 3 years ago

I dimly remember visiting reddit in the mid 2000s and it seemed to be some programmers sharing pictures of beer.

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WFH 3 points 3 years ago

I remember in 1978 when Reddit was called "did you read it?" and was a dude in his basement with a typewriter and a Ditto machine, you subscribed to the "submersible read its", he mailed you the "postages" on smelly, purple printed paper, and you could write down and mail your replies and "upward votes" and he would compile them and print them and mail them back and you could argue about the best trim level of the Ford Pinto for WEEKS.

Ah the good old days. Did cost an arm in postage stamps tho.

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Gypsyhermit123 3 points 3 years ago

That’s true about jobs and life

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blivet 2 points 3 years ago

Absolutely. The golden period is always the exact moment you discovered it, whatever it is, and as soon as you become more familiar with it and begin to see flaws, you perceive a decline.

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sunshine 4 points 3 years ago

So you're the guy who ruined it!

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ivanafterall 1 point 3 years ago

Man, complaining about the good ol' days 12 years ago...those really were the good ol' days.

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Naich 34 points 3 years ago

IT got worse as soon as I joined. Probably just a coincidence.

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chemical_cutthroat 23 points 3 years ago

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.

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wagesj45 5 points 3 years ago

Truly the worst fate. :(

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Hotdogman 3 points 3 years ago

Birds of a feather...

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bobs_monkey 1 point 3 years ago

... fly into walls cause they're all staring at each other's feathers.

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Klear 1 point 3 years ago

We're all Jackdaws on this blessed day.

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 3 years ago

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platysalty 21 points 3 years ago

I only signed up 30 mins ago and things are already in the shitter

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3rdBlueWizard 2 points 3 years ago

It's the people. We need to figure out how to have discussion forums without all the people clogging it up with conversations.

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platysalty 2 points 3 years ago

Guys, guys. I got it. How about we have a discussion forum... with only bots?

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3rdBlueWizard 1 point 3 years ago

What's a term for VR but with just text? Maybe Virtual Community? It's the wave of the future. Everyone has their own VC where they are the only living person. It's the logical endpoint of society. We all sit alone communicating with ourselves. Perfection!

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EROLoLICON 17 points 3 years ago

For those who's perplexed, there's a gigantic /s on the entire thread.

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greatwhitebuffalo41 15 points 3 years ago

I'm dying at this comment. I really hope it's referred back to years from now as the original hate lol

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PabloDiscobar 15 points 3 years ago

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.

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garrettw87 13 points 3 years ago

Lol. Good one

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ThrowawayPermanente 10 points 3 years ago

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.

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saddlebag 8 points 3 years ago

Muscle memory had me downvote. Read the post and had a chuckle then upvoted and boosted

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WhirledWhyDweeb 8 points 3 years ago

Damn Reddit refugees ruined everything.

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ada 7 points 3 years ago

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 :)

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Kierunkowy74 14 points 3 years ago

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

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Otome-chan 3 points 3 years ago

I keep seeing people talk about kbin having peertube support? how does that work exactly?

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Kierunkowy74 4 points 3 years ago

Well, it does not work now. Some PeerTube channels have been fetched as magazines, but they receive no content.

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Kierunkowy74 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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euphoriainafruit 5 points 3 years ago

It was just so much better a few days ago when I hadn't read the backlog of posts yet.

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SustainedChaos 4 points 3 years ago

Noting the url of this post. Expect plenty of reposts as the years click by.

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PixelPassport 3 points 3 years ago

I'm just waiting for a good app. I'll be back for you kbin...

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DrChickenbeer 3 points 3 years ago

@PixelPassport Artemis will be here before you know it.

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supermurs 2 points 3 years ago

Absolutely!

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artisanrox 2 points 3 years ago

In the beforetimes we had automods for the top posts. Nothing beats automod top post. I'm crying a single nostalgic tear.

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Gamers_Mate 2 points 3 years ago

@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.)

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DrChickenbeer 2 points 3 years ago

@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

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redcalcium 0 points 3 years ago

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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