• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you really suggesting that we take the low quality Reddit approach to high quality subs like /r/funny?

    I suppose this is what happens when the lowest common denominator goes down coupled with ignorance of how the lowest common denominator affects community quality.

    Communities lose their niche by catering to the lowest common denominator and become homogeneous with each other. This has been a long-standing phenomena on Reddit, one which I would expect to not be carried over to Lemmy since it’s largely a symptom of a user base that has more interest in memes, funnies, and celebrity worship than discussion and real news.

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      1 year ago

      Alright, how do you decide who is the “lowest common denominator” who shouldn’t get to have a say over what is being discussed?

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        1 year ago

        How about the people who stumble across the comm’s posts on All but aren’t subscribed? On Reddit you could also talk about the original user base from before a sub started hitting r/all but !technology@lemmy.world doesn’t really have an ‘original’ user base.

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          1 year ago

          It does sound reasonable to prioritize subscribed users when counting upvotes, to reflect the interests of that particular community.

          But I don’t think that will stop people from bringing up any news involving Twitter. The submission and initial momentum likely happens within the community itself.

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            1 year ago

            That would be cool, never thought about that. Straight up not allowing voting from All/when you’re not subbed could also be interesting as an experiment. But yeah, here plenty of people are just interested in Twitter news.

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              1 year ago

              are just interested in Twitter news.

              From the way I’m interpreting that… shouldn’t that demand for ‘just twitter news’ lead to a new community for that specifically? Like if it’s really that interesting to enough people, wouldn’t that be the better outcome?