Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

  • @LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
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    141 year ago

    Same man. I’m also trying to get out of my shell and contribute as well. I have thousands of reddit comments, but only a few posts in 12 years, mainly because I didn’t see the point. But here, where there are 1-2 orders of magnitude fewer users, what I have to say or post may genuinely interest somebody AND be seen by said person. If people don’t like it, that’s fine, at least it was there for them to see and not like!

    • Adam Dalliance
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      51 year ago

      @LemmyAtem @2deck

      This is it. The algorithm amplifies the popular and in doing so mutes the rest.

      Whether the algorithm is upvotes from the community times hotness or likes from the whole world times your social graph.

      It is still inevitably muting more people than it is promoting.

      People are worried today that there might not be a single place to find the one true forum, but in wanting that they are silencing the decentralized voices who can only get attention in a smaller group.

      You can’t have a sensible discussion when everyone is in the same room.