I’ve checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what’s changing, but I have yet to log in.
Attempting solidarity pragmatically.
I don’t believe in imaginary property.
I’ve checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what’s changing, but I have yet to log in.
My, if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions come to find Elmo again.
Wow, I didn’t think they’d implement anything more cancerous than various site preferred paywalling. This reeks of needing some good numbers to blow out headed into the IPO.
If it’s this bad already, get ready for a circus.
I used Feedly before defaulting to reddit as sites slowly collapsed RSS functionally.
Curious to know as well, but most of the time I see a couple sites mentioned that I haven’t been impressed with their ability to sift the trade mags and studies I was in it for.
It’s a distilled version of ‘the wisdom of the crowds’. With all the dog piling that comes with reactions to things that are pointed at the wrong audience. There’s generally some people with baggage in there somewhere who will take issue, and you get downvoted.
However, what’s always interesting about these platforms is where good ideas rise, where they come from, and how controversial they are, all of which you lose with the twitter/mastodon architecture.
It may be easier to find your crowd, but how useful is that to you depends on what you use your online presence for.
From a lifetime of small message boards It’s easier to drive engagement in smaller groups. If there’s less overall exhaustion with the basics in any niche, splitting the new members is a good way to keep differentiated material. Also growing communities can end up boxing out their regulars. It might be hard to get started, but the small communities tend to be resilient at some point, they just migrate service to service.
Most of the people who moved here were especially motivated to overcome the barriers to entry to, so I’m not sure the numbers still hold.
Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.
I would have downloaded a car if I could have.
Drops in a bucket.
The sad reality is your average tax cheat will fight tooth and nail for every penny. Because even if right up to 99.9% is clawed bank, it’s all profit. Somehow it’s still hard to sell the right on having refs powerful enough to police the game.
Edit: stray word