Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with
flashmedallion
joined 1 year ago
Have to remember too that at first, reddit was a little confusing and frictional, a new forum system, took a bit to get used to. That's what bought it the time it needed to really solidify it's own identity and culture.
After a while, and a few migrations, as more and more people flood in, eventually the influx is too fast for the new people to be able to pick up on the culture. It's like Exponentially Eternal September.
It'll happen here too eventually, but fortunately the platforms structure makes it much easier to splinter using native features.
We've also already seen Beehaw defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works due to the sheer volume of users creating issues around moderation
Troubling but understandable. Beehaw is basically fediverse tumblr, they need to prioritise their own safety.
It really highlights the other main issue though in that people really want a new alternative to work so are obsessed with growth at all costs. But maximising the influx of new users is going to have negative effects on quality, culture, and community.
A bit of friction to onboarding, and a slow steady growth that allows a community to form is what's going to set this up for success
Tragic. Why aren't making low-cost wool clothing etc.?
Sure, but it's still remarkable and it does change the tenor of the overall site.
At one point a couple of years ago I peeked at /all and I'm gonna say 85% of the top posts were from subreddits that were basically themed variations of "hey look at this asshole"
That shit definitely filters into the culture, and you see it in comment threads all the time where sometimes idea of a worthwhile contribution is just tagging iamverysmart or whatever
The whole site just primed itself into getting annoyed, pissed off, or outraged about anything at the drop of a hat