It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.
There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.
Transparency
You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.
Quality content
It’s not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It’s more curated.
It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.
There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.
You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.
It’s not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It’s more curated.
They’re more conversational than adversarial