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Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who's so fragile on opinions and things that they'll scream 'BAN THEM BAN THEM!'.

I've been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

And I'd stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it's the same questions I've seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they'll be hours old and some of them can be years old.

I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you're allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don't really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.

I don't know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you're dealing with 50 people at any given day.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is not elitist to reject unfunny garbage from Reddit brains

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

So you think if something is bad enough it is ok to discriminate again. Meaning you place the bar of disparaging some contend at around average value , so not at high elite value.

That can hold. It still depend on your value judgement of the content in question. Someone could think that lemmy.ml contend is "unfunny garbage".

The point of a site like this one, is that not one person is the decider. Not you or me. Users vote what is or is not funny, so that the "avergagely" funny systematically go on top. The more people they are, the more the average will mirror the real world population... I think considering the average population to not be "worthy" is pretty elitist. There are a lot of problem in such a site: Hive mind, trolling, mass vote, bot usage.... But discriminating against normal human user (even the worse one) doesn't seems to me like a solution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Uh... I am the decider of what I identify as tired unfunny memes. Nothing wrong with that!