I feel a similar way. The quality just kept going down and down to the point where I couldn’t tell what was real or not. Most just weren’t worth reading either way. Lemmy seems the same way now too. People are focusing on making “content” instead of trying to make higher quality posts.
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.
Maybe, but initially that’s what reddit was … sharing links, and only a few people commenting. It’s the discussion of those links that’s the value, and where community is formed, so it’s up to us to engage here to build it. I’ve been a member of reddit for 17 years and it took nearly a decade for it to become popular with the masses. I’ve seen many social networking sites come and go. Each is different in it’s own way, and so too will be the fediverse … it will just take time to solidify it’s own identity. It’s also got a lot of wrinkles to iron out, but I really like what I’m seeing so far though.
I feel a similar way. The quality just kept going down and down to the point where I couldn’t tell what was real or not. Most just weren’t worth reading either way. Lemmy seems the same way now too. People are focusing on making “content” instead of trying to make higher quality posts.
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.
Maybe, but initially that’s what reddit was … sharing links, and only a few people commenting. It’s the discussion of those links that’s the value, and where community is formed, so it’s up to us to engage here to build it. I’ve been a member of reddit for 17 years and it took nearly a decade for it to become popular with the masses. I’ve seen many social networking sites come and go. Each is different in it’s own way, and so too will be the fediverse … it will just take time to solidify it’s own identity. It’s also got a lot of wrinkles to iron out, but I really like what I’m seeing so far though.