Seeing stuff about reddit being posted to 10 different technology boards, plus reddit-themed ones, then reposted further just makes this whole idea a mess. Reposts have to be consolidated into a single comment thread.

  • macallik@kbin.social
    17·
    2 years ago

    Upvoted for the convo, but disagree on the sentiment.

    If I followed 10 different subreddits on technology, I’d imagine I’d be getting a lot of the same content. I know that reddit as a whole was a shitshow when things went pear-shaped for Twitter and the early days of Elon Musk for example.

    I think that eventually, we will reach a level of content creation where people either don’t feel the need to cross post, or that you don’t need to subscribe to 10 closely-related magazines.

    • cwagner@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      I think that eventually, we will reach a level of content creation where people either don’t feel the need to cross post, or that you don’t need to subscribe to 10 closely-related magazines.

      I hope so, but there seem to be a significant amount of people who think that every instance should be their own community. I don’t quite understand what they even want federation for then, but they are very outspoken.

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        There has been no lack of outspokenness from people who want monolithic mega-groups or post deduplication. The topic gets posts with full discussions daily at this point, and people have been spilling over the fence from the other side for days on end to immediately complain that they’re seeing groups with the same name, and expressing worry that they’ll miss something interesting because they’re used to reading 10 posts from popular subreddit and assuming that’s all of value that was said on the topic that day.

        You just don’t see them as outspoken because you agree with them.