If fediverse ever replace reddit (or other services), the, let it call, “problematic” user will just find out and comes here.
IMHO, it appears that a certain amount of internet trolls, “creazy writers” and all that problematic stuff is even necessarly to a degree. Its a sign of a functioning online space. Just as tabloids/the yellow press in the classic press and books of questionable quality in the book market.
Sturgeon’s Law applies: 90% of everything is crap.
Reddit’s value has never been in the “average redditor” or the “popular subs”. The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if “only” 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.
All in all, this is just to say that our problem should not be about “Reddit users”. Our problem should be with Reddit management. The threadiverse is still incredibly boring. Things here are mostly meta-conversations and there is little to no original content here. The way to solve this will be by bringing more people here. A lot more.
I had been on Reddit for 10+ years and never went near the ‘popular’ subs and I always had a great experience. I also didn’t go around trying to pick fights and also just ignored anything I didn’t like, so I was able to avoid almost all negative interactions.
Edit to add: I completely agree with you, if it wasn’t clear lol
Reddit’s value has never been in the “average redditor” or the “popular subs”. The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if “only” 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.
Yeah, I don't use Reddit any longer, but it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics. If you wanted to talk about something, chances were that thousands of other people did too.
it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics.
Yeah, and this is I honestly why I stubbornly keep working on fediverser even after the protests died out, and this is why I wasn’t expecting that the mirrors on alien.top were not so bad as some people here made them out to be. The content itself wasn’t bad, most people were just angry because they never learned (or cared) about curating their feed and just browsing on their specific communities.
I typically don't encounter any communities from instances like lemmygrad here, maybe I will if I actually search for them but as it is on Kbin it's been pretty nice here.
Yeah we just got personalized instance blocking and they where defeated by most of the instances before as well, they are just unbearable and do shit that is straight up illegal in most countries.
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