Not true, I could set up a WordPress blog and start writing reviews. As long as it stays a niche thing I share with a couple of friends online, that “review platform” won’t be gamed or flooded by fake reviews.
My point being that closed “publishing” instances can be reliable.
Fuck, I am getting older.
I created my account during high school, now I am 25.
To be honest, I am grateful for the journey. I found Reddit when I needed it, I was spending too much time on 9gag and wanted to find something more productive to waste my time on. Reddit was, and still is, more than that.
TwoXChromosomes and gonewildstories are two subs that literally redefined my person.
I haven’t deleted my account, nor do I plan to. But, I haven’t used Reddit since my birthday on June 12th. I have been into the idea of the fediverse long before I first read about it, and I am here for the long run.
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General popularity is not a good metric IMO. If I like a community, then it shouldn’t matter if a million people like or it’s only me and my cousin. If the community likes the content, I want to see it.
It’s trust between the members of a community.
However, weighted sorting is not a solution too, upvotes counts are not linear. Maybe, quantile sort?
yes! yes! yes! I have the same problem.
My suggestion is to add a view with subscriptions ordered by the selected criterion (i.e. new/active/hot/top) and below each community there is vertical list with posts from that community sorted.
This would allow see what’s up with the communities we follow and then jump in those communities if we find anything interesting.
le me about to say fedora is a viable alternative
(remembers red hat is shitting the bed right now)
(radio silence)
I don’t know why, but this exchange felt of fucking romantic. Keep up the good work you amazing people!
While I cannot think of a better decentralization example, the lack of source code makes me worry this solution would not satisfy the open source software (OSS) criteria.