Skyrim moment, right there.
Rabbithole
joined 2 years ago
The whole internet was basically hobby projects that worked fine before big tech ate everything.
It can totally work if the community's right.
Pretty much. Made perfect sense in my head at the time.
I totally see how it would be ambiguous now though.
48k ZX Spectrum.
Treasure Island Dizzy is better than all modern gaming and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.
If you want to stop more people coming, just go and tell people on Reddit to come here.
The trick though is that when you do, give them url's for both Lemmy and Kbin. From what I saw, doing that somehow made understanding this place so difficult that 95% of people would just start shouting abuse at whoever did it and refuse to ever entertain the idea of switching. :p
I came over in the reddit migration.
I have to admit, the thought definitely occurred to me when I first joined and had a look around, that the people that were already here before would be getting swarmed by masses of redditors that may well not have the same "site-culture" as the people who were here first. I'm actually surprised that this is the first post that I've seen complaining about it.
I mean it, I was legitimately expecting a ton of pushback from the existing fedi community over this, and was really surprised when it never seemed to materialize.
For my own experiences of being here (I'm on kbin), this place has been really good-natured, with a better level of well intentioned discussion than what a lot of reddit had, so it's been a really nice experience so far. What I don't have though, is any experience of what it was like before we all invaded en-mass, so I have nothing to contrast it with. I can totally see how someone wouldn't be happy with what's happened though, the migration has to have changed the space a lot for everyone that was here before.
One thing about my personal experience of how it is here though is that when I first joined I tried to do the thing that you first do with a reddit account, you know, where you immediately un-subscribe from all default subreddits and only join things you're actually interested in (so, niche subs, etc). Found out that it isn't quite how it works, but that the subscribed feed is pretty much exactly that but baked-in as standard. I've then spent almost my whole time on the subscribed feed since (unless actively looking for new stuff).
So the quality that I've experienced here is probably more down to my personal selection of subscribed communities rather than a more holistic view of the platform as a whole. There's the caveat to everything I just said, I guess.
So yeah, I'm kinda sorry that this happened to you, and I'd also prefer if those people (I'm referring to the bad-actors and arsehole's side of things) would have just stayed where they were too, but I'm not sure what to do about it other than just blocking/unsubscribing to the communities in question, or blocking the individual accounts of bad actors. I doubt that the second is even remotely scalable though if the userbase gets significantly larger.
Age of 18 lifetimes?
Holy Bestagons!
Yep. Laughs in FOSS would have worked way better than mine.
Thanks for the other pointers too, although I really didn't need the mental image of windows update happening 60 times a second, thank you very much. :)
Well, maybe I'm just not good at memes (almost certainly the case tbh) but Microsoft are talking about windows switching to being a largely cloud based OS, hence their Windows 365 talk recently.
Which is horrible, obviously.
Laughs in KDE could have been any distro, more about not having to deal with the eventual clusterfuck that's coming towards windows users...
There it is folks, someone had to explain their fucking meme. See that, that's what a shit meme looks like. :p
Aw stop, you're making me all nostalgic. :D
Place was wild before they cleaned it up for business interests, for sure.