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

  • 1chemistdown
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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

    • Gamers_Mate
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      You had it easy in my day we had to fight Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login.

      • niktemadur
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        91 year ago

        Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login

        On Captcha?

    • Otome-chan
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      221 year ago

      yeah? well when I joined kbin, 503 errors said to check back in a few days!

      • livus
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        31 year ago

        But it would usually let you go to some other part of kbin 10 minutes later with a nice Capcha of some cat paintings…

  • gonzo0815
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    861 year ago

    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.

    • redsky
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      351 year ago

      I remember that. People would just bitch 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.

      • Xeelee
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        141 year ago

        I can call you some homophobic slur, if that will make you feel better?

        • Dufurson
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          91 year ago

          please daddy don’t threaten me with a good time UwU

    • mrnotoriousman
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      41 year ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I hate that the majority of posts on the Fediverse currently is about reddit. Like get over it

  • Pons_Aelius
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    I totally agree. The first two weeks of this month were the kbin golden age.

    It has been all downhill since then.

    • sik0fewl
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      291 year ago

      Ah, yes - the Eternal June. It still has not ended.

      No, I mean it literally has not ended. It’s only the 28th.

  • DrChickenbeerOP
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    451 year ago

    FWIW I was on Reddit for twelve years and people complained about the good old days twelve years ago.

    • somas
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      351 year 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.

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

        • WFH
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          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.

        • blivet
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          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.

    • ivanafterall
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      Man, complaining about the good ol’ days 12 years ago…those really were the good ol’ days.

  • Naich
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    341 year ago

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

  • chemical_cutthroat
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    231 year 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.

  • platysalty
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    211 year ago

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

    • @3rdBlueWizard
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      21 year ago

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

      • platysalty
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        21 year ago

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

        • @3rdBlueWizard
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          11 year 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!

  • EROLoLICON
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    171 year ago

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

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41
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    151 year ago

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

  • PabloDiscobar
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    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.

  • ThrowawayPermanente
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    101 year 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.

  • saddlebag
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    81 year ago

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

  • Ada
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    71 year 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 :)

    • Kierunkowy74
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      141 year 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

      • Otome-chan
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        31 year ago

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

        • Kierunkowy74
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          41 year ago

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