Or, just bad. There’s nothing generic about Ed Hardy. Most people elect to look generic rather than be caught dead in that mess.

I’ve never been able to read gfycat as anything but “go fuck your cat,” so that’s a thought I never knew I’d miss.

My “life being disrupted” is a tad dramatic, but it’s certainly changed my downtime scrolling habits. And there are some niche interests that I can’t participate in the discussion of anymore since deleting my Reddit account, because there’s not the user base here to support the communities. Mostly, I can’t wait until KBin isn’t just a place where the most active conversations are about Reddit. I think RedditMigration is the most populated overall magazine, and I really hope that’s not a lasting situation.

“how much does it pay? $$$” lol.

What a sad iteration of the Internet we live in. Part of me wants to roll my eyes and call that person a stupid kid. Another part of me knows it actually pays to be vigilant to shit like this, because reddit is absolutely rampant with bots and trolls. Sad that a person can’t just spread the word about something they enjoy anymore without there being some mundane - yet still somehow nefarious, ulterior motive behind it.

Got suspended for criticizing spez

You done a bad thing… you done a bad, bad, no-good thing.

What I’m about to say is going to sound like I disagree with you in spirit, but I don’t think I actually am disagreeing. Despite using reddit for a specific thing when you made this post, you also just… didn’t really give a fuck one way or the other. You could take or leave it, and for now, you chose to take it while it made sense and benefitted you.

There was a time when sites and apps (or “programs”) didn’t have so much longevity. No one really blinked when people stopped using the IM services. They just logged on while it made sense to because their friends were active, and then one day, they didn’t log in anymore. No one thought twice when Napster was overtaken by KaZaA, or when that one went away for Limewire, or any of the other host of P2P services. They used them until broadband Internet became ubiquitous, and then they went to bittorrent. MySpace went quietly into the night and was gradually replaced by Facebook. Both of those (and their predecessor, Xanga) replaced the old geocities/tripod/angelfire personal websites. From my youth, Google is the only giant that remains.

Seeing the way people act about Twitter and reddit make me realize how much the standards have changed. It doesn’t have to be a big event. This is nothing new. These things wane as they meet better, more efficient, and more user-friendly competition. This is no different. No one has to weep for it or give a concerted effort to make it change. The fedaverse options are modeled after a similar UI, it won’t be such a big adjustment if people just let it happen and stop trying to save a corporate corpse. We used to not care about preserving the familiarity of failing services, and we were all the better for it. I think everyone could benefit from taking a page out of Web 1.0’s book from time to time and inject a little more of that Wild West energy we used to be flush with. I know things can never be like that anymore - for good reason - but seriously, just stop giving a flying fuck about reddit in any capacity. It’s making less and less sense to use it, so now we have this. One day, less and less might be zero, and that’s an OK and natural progression.

Have you noticed basically no one downvotes here? The user base seems to be more accessible and emotionally mature in general so far.

I had an account from 2010, and over the course of the 2016 US presidential election is when I started noticing the shift. Society seems to have shifted in general. MeToo and BLM coincided around that time, as well.

kbin could be a bit bigger, but the collective reddit personality is downright insufferable, and I suspect it’s largely because of its size. There are just too many people with opinions as strong as they are different, and we’re often not any better off after our interactions with them.

Plus all the troll bots and fake AI posts.

It turns out, you just need to find some people who bite their lower lip when they see the whip come out.

I tried for a hot minute over COVID, and it was buggy as hell, but overall, a fun and active environment before they scrapped it.

I’ve been part of Discord for a long time, but it feels like there aren’t many general chat options, they’re all based around a thing I’m not familiar with and don’t like. And then so many servers seem to be children.

I’ll say, those chatrooms really helped get me through 2020. I found them a couple months before COVID struck and the lockdown was a lot easier with the friends I made in those chatrooms. It’s not something I think should be forced, but if it looks like the support is here, I’m making it known early on that I’m for it and would love it.

I do miss hot singles being in my area. I never met any, but it felt good knowing they were around.

You are root.