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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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As a community grows in popularity, it often shifts from hosting insightful discussions to attracting memes, funny, and low-quality content. This change appeals to a larger audience interested in such content, creating a vicious cycle where valuable discussions are overshadowed and marginalized by the platform's primary demographic.

It's the pendulum swing of pretty much every community on Reddit.

  • Community starts out with a small group of users dedicated to quality content related to the topic
  • Community growth reaches a point where the most popular posts begin to trend outside of the community
  • New users join the community after seeing popular posts show up in their own feeds. Growth accelerates
  • Community becomes "popular" enough that posts regularly trend outside of the community
  • New users flood in
  • Users flood the community with low-effort content to karma farm
  • Community now sucks.

It happened to basically every big sub on Reddit once reaching a large enough size.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I guess the closest experience you can get is if you'll just block all meme communities

Idk if you can do it on Lemmy, but on MBin you can block communities (magazines)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can block communities on Lemmy in Jerboa atleast

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can block them in Lemmy without the use of an ap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Makes sense, I just mainly interface with Lemmy thru jerboa

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