

- signal to noise ratio
It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.
There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.
- Transparency
You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.
- Quality content
It’s not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It’s more curated.
- Interactions
They’re more conversational than adversarial
There are some that still give Israel the benefit of the doubt and showing that a humanitarian flotilla trying to deliver aid are kidnapped in international waters, strips away that.
Israel has, and will always be a piece of shit and definitely revel in it, but those who stand on the sidelines with their “two sides” arguments are now shown that they are morally complicit