• The Grunkler@lemmy.world
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    Let’s hope more news stories mentioning Lemmy leads people to join us here. Ive been loving this place as much as I loved reddit when I first found it, and I hope more people get to experience what I am experiencing

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      The fact that we’re communicating from so many different websites blows my mind! Just a little extra thing that makes this platform even more fun for me :)

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        It really feels like I’m actually exploring the internet. And the idea that I could turn an old laptop or raspberry pi into a server, adding to the fediverse: it feels like I’m living in the future

        Is this how kids in the 90s felt when the internet was just gaining traction?

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          Yes. We could make our own little shitty website on a free server like angelfire, with a traffic ticker so we knew if anyone had been there. Mine was a stupid little parody website my friends and I set up for keeping track of acronyms and abbreviations we saw online. Didn’t realize we had something there, and could have been Urban Dictionary lol.

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            Echoing this, it’s a very similar feeling! We also had guestbooks for people to leave comments and these things called webrings that would let you explore more similar sites. I remember running a small fansite and forum. It was an interesting time.

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              Ah yes guestbooks. My first foray into actual programming (rather than just HTML) was when I wanted to add a guestbook to my silly little website, followed a tutorial, found out tutorial was borked and went looking for advice on what was going wrong (multiple things). By the time my guestbook worked properly I knew PHP(4 or 5) reasonably well.

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            Yeah I gotta say, “Webrings are back!” was not on my 2023 bingo card. But I’m not hating it by a longshot! It feels like a nice hybrid of the lil Angelfire/Geocities sites and yahoogroups/onelist. Usually fandom communities were hand in hand with those two platform elements, and I’ve missed that tight-knit community feeling.

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          Kid from 90s that grew up with the advent of the internet. It’s somewhat similar, but still very managed and controlled. Internet in the 90s was absolutely wild. Obscure corners, all sorts of content, free, open and you could spend days and days exploring it and still couldn’t enough of it. All of it was unique, driven by passions, curiosities, desires, people wanting to express themselves.

          I sort of dislike what it has become and how everything is monetized. But I suppose, this is the cost of progress and innovation in the rest of the areas of our lives.

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            Late night internet chats, dropping the A/S/L and expecting the person to reply honestly. Those were the days.

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          I think I have felt that way for one thing or another since 98.
          Internet itself blew my mind, playing age of empires with my buddy with just one phone call, then finding about mIRC, peer 2 peer, torrents, stuff i cant remember, and video games getting better graphics at ever increasing steps. I still get a little shocked when I see PS2 games listed as retro games.

          And now they are making advances way more often in quantum computing.
          I just remembered the first time I heard about a terabyte and the story that “the only place that can hold that ammount of massive storage are the vatican servers” (whatever those may be) lol.

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          Non-internet Bulletin Boards would each host message forums but would exchange packages of messages (such as QWK files) via modem so that you could communicate with others connecting to different BBSs around the world.

          Such a magical experience back then.

          Then usenet newsgroup servers did much the same, (but probably updated more frequently). The peer-to-peer aspect was transparent to the users, so it was good to have just one “place”, a newsgroup, where everyone could discuss a subject. But numbers were low enough that it wasn’t flooded with messages.

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          I completely forgot how cool the internet was outside of corporate silos. And yes, the '90s internet was slow as hell, but there were so much of it to explore.

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        This project has legs. I’ve been on Lemmy this past week but now I’m commenting from kbin. Once you start to figure everything out you really see the potential.

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      Honestly, it might not be a great thing just yet. I feel like Lemmy is struggling under the influx, it’s just not ready usability wise. When I tapped on the link to this comment section, I got a weird Latter Day Saints post until I reloaded. There’s so, so many things like that and I’m deeply worried it’s going to give people a bad impression.

      Then again…it’s not like they have anywhere else to go…

      This was always going to be a mess at first, no question, but I’m worried it will get messy to the point Lemmy starts cracking.

      It just further drives home the point that people got way to comfortable using one or two sites. We need to get into the habit of having multiple sites and alternatives again, or this is going to happen every time the “new big thing” goes to shit.

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            Yep the UI is excellent for my needs. It looks great and is easy to interact with. There are a few nooks and crannies for settings which I imagine will throw a few new users off but it appeals to my ‘learn by clicking random buttons’ nature.

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              I’ve actually been really enjoying the mobile site. I hope we’ll get an Apollo-style app one day, but the mobile site is pretty damn good for how new kbin is

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                Funny you should say that I actually literally just started a magazine which I’m beginning to fill with basic mobile UI tips for those who just want to get going: m/quickstart

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      When I first started using reddit over a decade ago it was pretty great. I didn’t really stop to think what would happen if reddit started to act more like a corporation because I was having too much fun.

      Now that time has come, and it’s time to move on to a more free (as in freedom) and open system. It’s immoral that all those years worth of human interaction (the howto’s, cat videos, porn, niche topics etc) is “owned” by a corporation.