back in my day we would have a cloudflare confirmation before every single keystroke and we liked it
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Back in my day, the kbin servers were located in a single room above a bowling alley, and below another bowling alley.
Wow...
Jesus Christ. You sound like one of my old in person support clients.
You. Went to space? You.
It’s bowling alleys all the way down!!
back in the early days of kbin....
I welcome new members, the fediverse can always use more contributors! Be polite!
Eternal September? At this time of day, at this time of year, localised entirely within the fediverse?!
Can I see it?
Actually, wait. I was on Usenet, and IRC, and Jabber...
I guess Green Day's song becomes ever more poignant on the Internet - Wake me up when September ends (hint: it does not end, it is eternal).
I miss IRC if you want the truth.
It's still out there - waiting. There's a bunch of active servers, and I have Ambassador for Pale Moon installed. I just never have cause to use it instead of Discord anymore. I think that says more about me than IRC.
yeah but my peeps gone like 20 years ago!
The problem of any social network that starts organically. If you're invested in the community and not specifically in the software, when people move on, you will too.
IRC doesn't have gif support and let's be honest. Emojis might be an optional requirement for some people, but gifs are the foundation of communication for a lot of people these days.
Ban GIFs worldwide, TBH. It is mostly spam IMO.
as someone with sight problems, I could not agree more.
GIF support, no, but I think most clients I've seen have the ability to display Unicode emoticons, which would help for 99% of the image use. As far as GIFs, I guess you'd need to build an IRC client that does the same thing as Discord - display a "preview" of a properly-coded image link. Because certainly, it's easy enough to search giphy or tenor and drop a link in chat.
I'll readily admit the low-effort ability to react with an icon is both a blessing and a curse. It's sometimes enough to drop in an icon or two as a response, saving mental bandwidth but still responding.
Is there any reason why people think this? Said more in-depth in another comment, but I think the influx happened weeks ago with possibly more people on a wider time-scale or because of some other factors.
Who would wait to join until the last day and why would they? It's not like they need to delete their old account before signing up here.
It's because very suddenly, users of RIF and Apollo are going to be locked out of Reddit, and people think they'll migrate here, rather than going to the official Reddit mobile software (as a RedReader user, I've switched over), or going to Facebook/Instagram.
I know about the situation with the apps, I'm wondering why they didn't see the writing on the wall or why they wouldn't care until now.
Because it hasn't stopped working yet.
It's a fundamental question about society: which is more prevalent, fear or laziness? They had no reason to move until their program stopped working. Now, it's not going to work anymore. But I don't believe we'll see a massive adoption wave. People are still confused about the nature of the Fediverse, and they're too scared by their ignorance to get over it and bite the bullet.
Unfortunately, those that do take the plunge will find that most Fediverse client software is in beta, or less than fully functional. Laziness will keep them away. Fear will push them to other monolithic platforms. So my thought is that it's going to drive traffic to Meta's properties for the time being, at least at this time.
I don't get it because I'm lazy but also Solidarity Forever. Also, I signed up as soon as I saw Kbin has Oauth.
That and the continuation of laziness. I don't see that person losing access and immediately moving here (when they had weeks to investigate that choice leisurely before being forced). I think you're right, other platforms that fill the void (even if in a different way) seem more likely. Ones that they already use.
People always wait until it's almost too before they act. Some even miss that point.
eyes the climate of earth nervously
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I’ve been browsing on and off on kbin while using Apollo until the end. Officially moved over today so still trying to get my head around it all.
Ugh, I need to remember to move over to kbin before commenting on this magazine. My Lemmy (sh.itjust.works) comments never show up here. No idea why, I'll lyk if I figure out.
Anyways, here's my comment:
Very good points, I think people expecting a massive wave of redditors will be disappointed. But it’s not like we need them either, we’ve already got a critical mass of quality users.
I, for one, welcome our newbie overlords!
Don't shoot until you see the white of their eyes. Or they repost and spam the place.
I welcome all newbies, so long as they are human. Dated an alien once, she was from X-R/3DY. A cold planet, just like her.
Should have dated a Klingon woman.
I see that the repost have already started on kbin.
Welcome, newbies!
Buckle up, buttercup :)
I'm new here 👋😆👋 This is my first comment on kbin. I'm migrating here from Reddit. Hope you like me 😆
Today is the last day for a lot of us there. I am using JoeyforReddit, such a wonderful Android app. I'll be sad to see it go, it's been an integral part of my every day. I hope the fediverse will fill that void for me. I also hope it blossoms - no one can take it away from us or get so greedy with it that all the users leave.
Everyone, hold the line!
Hodl ;)
You heard the man HOLD THE FUCKING LINE
Hodor!
Also, once old reddit goes tits up, thats when you will see a TON more migrations over here.
There's no way they would shut down old reddit.
Then again....
There's no way they would shut out third-party apps.
from the team kbin since it wasn't cool fvck yeah
Waiting for the 1st here they come meme. (hoping for something original instead of the standard whirlwind)
This article did not age well.
Let's see what happens.
maybe I'll eat my words later but I doubt it'll be quite as big. I think a lot of people are underestimating just how little the average person cares, or knows to care. Been through the twitter migration, the reddit migration, and in both instances it wasn't really a migration, it was more like a few people split off the main group and found a nicer home for themselves. And honestly, I think that's enough.
Average person will follow the content. Eventually. As Reddit is overwhelmed with spam, scams, and porn, while mods attempt to mitigate with non-existing tools, average person will get sick of it and wonder where their communities went. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen.
I agree with you. For those who just want a distraction from life, they're probably not going to care about the quality of the content that much - they'll just keep on doom scrolling reddit for the next dopamine hit. I'm thinking idiocracy style.
Booting us 'freeloaders' off the API affects us, but it probably doesn't affect them very much.
I could be quite wrong if course.
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