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100% agreed. I'd been hoping for a reddit alternative to build an adequate groundswell for quite a long time before this hullabaloo exactly because the level of discussion had degraded so severely. Pretty done with people rehashing the popular responses that they knew would get upvotes the same way they had gotten upvotes the preceding million times they'd been posted whether they were relevant to the topic of the op or not. This platform can only benefit from fostering more substantive discussions.
I don't think there's a reality where some personal tending of what shows up in our feeds isn't necessary to weed out different attitudes/conventions inherent to particular communities, but the more we can avoid a descent into similar behaviors by way of activating the reward center of the brain for frivolous posting the better.
tl;dr - If I never have to read about Brawndo in a post discussing world politics again I will be happier than I probably deserve.
I created the community “Japanese Metal” https://sh.itjust.works/c/japanese_metal The problem is, it can’t be found on several other instances. I tried on Lemm.ee and Kbin.social, and both return a “not found”. What’s wrong? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
I was able to pull it up in a search and just subbed. I saw a tip here earlier to eliminate the initial "!" when searching for a mag and that worked. This was the first time I've been able to do so though after checking back every so often as functionality has been slowly improving.