• Dame @lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, people don’t really care about decentralisation nor federation. People want an easy experience where everyone is

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      9 months ago

      If they really understood the phrase ‘too many cooks spoil the soup’, then they’d realize the advantage of smaller online communities.

      Reddit was at its best when it had a low count but engaged userbase, and became actively worse as it grew.

      I think this is because trolling and response isn’t a 1 to 1 ratio. All it takes is 1 toxic person to make an entire subforum rancid and takes the effort of several mods to mitigate it.

      The more people you have, the more chance you will have these trolls organize, the more likely they will either overwhelm or infiltrate the mods.

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          9 months ago

          I think a better metaphor is fermentation.

          It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology.

          And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind.