Ernest said he was handing over the reigns to someone else soon. I’d like to give them a chance before I bail on Kbin. I really like Kbin.

I’m gonna give Kbin a little while longer to get its shit together, but if need be, I’ll swap to Lemmy.world in the near future.

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

https://ibb .co/GsV1znm

Some casual history promotion

!RoughRomanMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social

!HistoryDrawings@kbin.social

!HistoryRuins@kbin.social

!historyporn@lemmy.world

Miniclip - now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time…

Google could actually find you things.

The first page of searches was almost never brimming with corporate shit, but very Web 1.0 looking niche websites.

Browser based games were all the rage.

Oh God, flash animations. Albino Blacksheep. Our sense of humor was… primitive.

Fuck, webcomics too. They were big back then. And mostly shit, lmao.

Everyone had a blog. Not like modern cookie-cutter blogs, but slapdash HTML pages with unintuitive layouts and garish backgrounds and graphics. 9/10 times that’s where super obscure information was. Midi files - god, do kids even know what midi files are anymore?

There were a million fansites for every fandom. No centralization.

There was a much stronger sense of the internet being a unique place, apart from meatspace. Maybe it was just the aftermath of the dotcom bubble busting, but everything was very… open. Communal. People just… freely sharing themselves and their work.

“Cool place, like a bunch of connected forums, but avoid the .ml instances and Hexbear”

You are the premier genocide denier I’ve run into on this platform

Because I want less genocide instead of more? How curious.

Hell yeah!

I’m not into politics myself and it drives me crazy that we can’t rely on fine communities because they are on instances defederated by big instances because of their political views.

I didn’t realize genocide apologia and using admin powers to push it was such a minor concern.

Marxist-Leninists in an overwhelming majority oppose the current Russian government.

Would you like to remind me what the second largest party in Russia is, currently? And what their stance is on the current government’s actions?

That, of course, is not even getting into all of the “BUT THE WEST PROVOKED THEM” apologia for Ukrainian genocide by Western MLs.

Tankies are a no-go for me as I am Ukrainian. Even mainstream leftists, who generally have good ideas, like Yanis Varoufakis, turn into complete degenerates when it comes to NATO or Russian imperialism. And Varoufakis is just the tip of the iceberg.

Based Zizek will always be around

My experience has similarities and differences - I don’t find .ml users as a whole to be shitty, but if there’s a shitty user, chances are pretty good that they’re from .ml rather than one of the smaller instances, World, or Kbin. And they’re almost always evangelical in nature - as a former evangelical, I recognize the type. The preconception of ultimate and indisputable correctness - they’re often willing to explain and honestly discuss their views, but not acknowledge any serious possible fault or flaw in them. The scriptures are holy, after all.

They swapped the opiate of the people for some synthetic Stalinist stuff.

Are people actually that serious about defederating from Lemmy.ml?

Yes. I avoid Lemmy.ml communities like the plague, but because I don’t feel there’s intentional hostility from the community towards outsiders, unlike Grad or Hexbear, I don’t think I’m in favor. I do understand the underlying thought process. It’s difficult to ‘join hands’ with a community, however otherwise normal, which is run by genocide deniers who very clearly use their power over the community to push a narrative of genocide denial.

I do hope he eventually finds a balance that works both for him and for us. I greatly prefer Kbin, when it’s, y’know, up.

Related: I genuinely feel that ml being the official or at least de-facto flagship instance is turning people away.

I had actually considered Lemmy before The Great Reddit Exodus. Lemmy.ml turned me off from that.

Now we have Kbin (you can make it, my love!) and Lemmy.world, and I feel much better.

Yeah, I made a specific point of avoiding participation in any .ml groups for that very reason.

Tired. Tired tired tired. In pain, as always. Questioning myself over my lack of accomplishments. Flitting between self-loathing and despair.

So, you know, average start of the week.

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I’d like some niche communities to be more active, and realistically speaking that’s only going to happen with a bigger userbase.