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Remember the hat thing? The one where you went around giving out hats to people and corrupting comments? That was fun. Can we do that here?

Usenet arose during a time when the people using computers actually understood how they worked and how to use them. Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.

If it’s not on a touchscreen, and not able to be done with 2 or 3 taps, then it ain’t happening.

Expanding on this, I’m worried a technological education gap is forming among the youth. Old people didnt grow up with computers, they have an excuse. Middle aged people had to deal with the computers of the 80s and 90s, and because of that, understand computing pretty well. Young people were born into a world of instant gratification and super simplified touchscreen GUI interfaces, and from talking with them, it’s clear most of them know how to get on the internet and do their thing on social media, but most of them have no clue how the nuts and bolts of it all work.

So it scrapes the page manually? I was thinking of writing a small python program myself to do that.

Going to guess you were cruising BBS, FTP, and Telnet sites? I was just an ignorant preteen coding Qbasic garbage trying to learn programming on my Dad’s PC that year. When I read back on Internet history I was a little surprised it was already so active when most people weren’t even aware of it yet.

At least now I know how Dad got all them free DOS games.

older people have seen it plenty of times already

Spot on. My journey is Usenet->various early web forums->Slashdot->Digg->Reddit, and now I’m here. Been doing this for over 25 years haha.

Imagine thinking you’re still on Reddit and acting like a dick is a normal thing to do.

FRESH MEAT

If you want to be neck deep in that bullshit, you’re more than welcome to join exploding-heads.com. Can we have ONE space online that isn’t infiltrated by assholes?

You don’t have to be a dick to others on the Internet. You can make that choice. Just because you CAN post hateful shit anonymously and not have to face real life consequences doesn’t mean you HAVE to.

Scraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That’s one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON’T start just scraping them.

I noped out of the new shit the day they released it, and gladly clicked their provided link to take me back to old.

I trust that they won’t let their political views get in the way of maintaining Lemmy itself

It’s not like anyone can’t see it and fork it if they do. It’s like complaining about the political views of the architect who designed your house. You’d be able to notice the Lenin-shaped staircase landing.

Like they grew to corporate size but are still in “pull random shit out of our asses” startup mode. They’re probably still trying to run it like it’s just a couple of college dudes. That’s the vibe I get anyway.

Ah thanks.

Why are they being called “boomer shooters”? My boomer parents didn’t want anything to do with them. The older millenials were the ones playing them. Most boomers don’t even like video games.

I tried reading the replies to gain context but it just sounds like cryptobro nonsense so i checked out

I’m an older millennial, and I don’t understand this trend lately of labeling anything slightly technical as “crypto/techbro” shit. It’s like people see the word “server” or “IP address” or some shit and just get triggered by it. WTF? Can someone explain this trend? Back in my youth we didnt mind learning new shit, you HAD to in order to make effective use of your time online. That’s how the early Internet was built. By “techie” people.

I mean, I’m not a certified mechanic and have zero interest in working on cars, but I figured out how to change my own timing belt with a youtube tutorial.

Careful mang, Kbin is under heavy development, you might break something 😂

Kbin has no app. “Installing” it to your phone just puts a link to Kbin on it. You’re looking at the web page.