You both make such great points here. I’ve definitely had those times I felt like a post that’s upvoted to the front page is really an advertisement. And within thread comments it has become almost impossible to know who is genuine, a troll, or a literal bot - along with being pretty toxic for a long time.
At the same time, there are some extraordinary communities and knowledge repositories that might be difficult to replicate in the fediverse. For example, I can’t yet envisage how a highly factual community like Ask Science, or such, might work. But I love the retro feeling I’m getting here - of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts. lol.
When i was just lurking here at the start of rexit, i kept getting the feeling of finally being around real humans again. It was amazing! unfortunately it seemed to go back to reddit style copy paste link spam to generate content. One step forwards and one step backwards.
You both make such great points here. I’ve definitely had those times I felt like a post that’s upvoted to the front page is really an advertisement. And within thread comments it has become almost impossible to know who is genuine, a troll, or a literal bot - along with being pretty toxic for a long time.
At the same time, there are some extraordinary communities and knowledge repositories that might be difficult to replicate in the fediverse. For example, I can’t yet envisage how a highly factual community like Ask Science, or such, might work. But I love the retro feeling I’m getting here - of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts. lol.
When i was just lurking here at the start of rexit, i kept getting the feeling of finally being around real humans again. It was amazing! unfortunately it seemed to go back to reddit style copy paste link spam to generate content. One step forwards and one step backwards.