this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

And this is my first comment on kbin!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Gamers_Mate
Thanks! I'm migrating from reddit and so far kbin looks like a good alternative

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There are some really great apps being created as we speak that are inspired by Apollo, etc. It's a great time to be here and we are about to be a part of an awesome journey together!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Welcome! Also, your cat is wearing a great looking tuxedo!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

We will watch your career with great interest...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Glad to have you hear! I hope you enjoy the community.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine the people who had Kbin accounts before the whole reddit debacle. They will be the true OGs of Kbin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You mean the ancients? Rumor has it that they have always been here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I heard they were created by the code itself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

They built this place and now we just use the ~~gate~~ federated system for ourselves.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We can't collapse comments on kbin yet.

If we do great big long chains of "this is the way" we're going to make a real mess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There was a tampermonkey script developed to collapse comments. Not perfect but definetly recommend.

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Eh something about habits and having a hard time dying.

: P

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And, next year, the first day of the Reddit blackout will be a massive cake day here in Kbin!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That whole week really.

I know people who made accounts one or two days beforehand because they correctly predicted that the wave of signups would cause issues. And I know people who waited till after Reddit made it clear that they weren't going to be changing their plan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Anyone anywhere now if they were still there in a few years would be considered a veteran..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I've been a member for 2 whole weeks. I'm pretty OG at this point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

troopers of the cloudflare incident 🫡

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Left kbin for a few days till that cloudflare thing was sorted out. Glad it's all running smoothly now.

I guess now I get to feel what the pioneering Redditors felt after the digg migration, and it's exciting!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I joined kbin when cloudflare was enabled and was still having lots of fun. Imagine my excitement when it actually started federating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Me too. It was mindblowing logging in expecting my usual cloudflare/errors experience and seeing all these people!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cloudflare verifier, chiming in 😅

Didn't create an account till after it was sorted out though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congrats with the veteran status 😆

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

kbin is so new that we managed to snatch the domain kbin.dk and create Denmark's first kbin instance 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm used to that. Been a veteran of Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter, LibraryThing... I'm just sad I didn't get my Mastodon veteran badge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

+1 on the mastodon point. i remember hearing about it all those years ago and being a little skeptical, but then when i finally checked it out last year it was SO good. love that place.

i saw a brilliant toot that perfectly captures how i feel about the fediverse: "I like a small indie coffee shop where the coffee is better and you can always find a seat, and it's not full of crying babies."
(source: https://infosec.exchange/@1dark1/110612880883722174)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What about us wandering Lemmings?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Today when I was browsing with my lemmy account I saw a commenter that had a cake icon, they had joined two years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmings are round and cute!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is way older. The true veterans are hiding somewhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know how you sometimes stumble acros comments on reddit with insiders or short hype from 10 years ago?

I came to peace with the fact that this will be the poop situation right now. The first kbin/lemmy insider...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

the poop situation

I remember that poop post on asklemmy, it's already achieved legendary status I think lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it survives,

I can't even post on my own magazine without errors popping up, my thread not showing until 4 to 8 hours later, and now that there's duplicates of the thread, I try to delete them, and it just gives errors...

Haven't been able to post or delete anything in days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

you could make an issue if you'd like, although i get that that is inconvenient

kbin has been working alright for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hello world!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hopefully the comment box will be towards the top by the time new users become veterans! Loving the site though wasn't expecting this much activity on the threadiverse, especially on academic subs. Feels exciting to be a part of all this. Shame didn't join during the blackouts. Oh well better late than never!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Important part is to get as many bug fixes and improvements done for the next wave, the API outage on the 1st of July.

I'm keen to get through as many PRs as possible and get new tweaks and features out to improve the experience for all the new mates that are going to migrate over

❤️🦙

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