Fediverse isn’t all that great though despite all the cope, scroll through all and you see that it’s 50% news slop about how US conservatives bad that’s designed to keep you scrolling, 35% porn, 5% leftoid memes and 10% for everything else, pretty much like reddit minus the copious amount of rightoids. The culture is also pretty much the same.
Engagement and upvote hunting also does play a role, else there wouldn’t be people who make posting their day job or (as of late) bots automatically scraping popular posts from reddit to post here.
Like sure it’s decentralized, but what good does it do when it’s almost the same in content as the bad platform it denounces?
On the fediverse you can hold real conversations with people in comments. That rarely happens on Reddit.
However as the fediverse grows, even as we are seeing in this thread, it becomes increasingly impossible.
edit Wow there really are a lot of comments here. Are people botting these or are we reaching this real level of interaction? Forget about upvotes or views this is crazy.
I think it helps you can see people you agree or disagree with in a bunch of comments, you can almost get a feel for who is courteous and who is just angry.
Reddit has always been more of a anonymous feeling website for me.
have you tried different instances? piefed.social blocks nsfw/nsfl as well as ragebait political figures’ names by default.
at any rate most of the complaints people have with reddit aren’t about its content, they’re about its slimy ass leadership, powertripping mods, and AI infestation. fediverse isn’t immune to any of that but it hasn’t metastasized here at least.
Fediverse isn’t all that great though despite all the cope, scroll through all and you see that it’s 50% news slop about how US conservatives bad that’s designed to keep you scrolling, 35% porn, 5% leftoid memes and 10% for everything else, pretty much like reddit minus the copious amount of rightoids. The culture is also pretty much the same.
Engagement and upvote hunting also does play a role, else there wouldn’t be people who make posting their day job or (as of late) bots automatically scraping popular posts from reddit to post here.
Like sure it’s decentralized, but what good does it do when it’s almost the same in content as the bad platform it denounces?
On the fediverse you can hold real conversations with people in comments. That rarely happens on Reddit.
However as the fediverse grows, even as we are seeing in this thread, it becomes increasingly impossible.
edit Wow there really are a lot of comments here. Are people botting these or are we reaching this real level of interaction? Forget about upvotes or views this is crazy.
I think it helps you can see people you agree or disagree with in a bunch of comments, you can almost get a feel for who is courteous and who is just angry.
Reddit has always been more of a anonymous feeling website for me.
The problem is not the tool, it’s the people using it.
Yeah, it’s like people are addicted to doomscrolling.
have you tried different instances? piefed.social blocks nsfw/nsfl as well as ragebait political figures’ names by default.
at any rate most of the complaints people have with reddit aren’t about its content, they’re about its slimy ass leadership, powertripping mods, and AI infestation. fediverse isn’t immune to any of that but it hasn’t metastasized here at least.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind