Welcome to the new web. Nothing is optimal, it’s a good intro for people. The setting is there and that’s what matters.

That’s what I meant, but appreciate the clarification.

I just block the bots, I want to see what real people care enough to post.

That’s just a function of how the host server sorts posts. I am fairly sure that functionality could be implemented without the need to even fork the version.

You can go to your user setting and select new comments and do this now.

Kind of like if there was a Lemmy Star Trek server and it hosted a bunch of communities with different topics that are all related to Star Trek?

The architecture is in place to do what you’re talking about. Just needs the right people to adopt the approach over time.

I just want the communities I post in to grow. Just trying to do my part to keep people engaged and encourage others to do the same.

And I’ve never felt better.

Oh god not CoMmUnIsTs?!

Hey friendo, your post was short and there wasn’t a ton of room to read between the lines. Most people that shorthand the issues of corporate sterilized inclusivity, imo the actual issue with the writing, into the word “woke” (don’t forget the quotes!) don’t have a very nuanced or original take.

If you have a more detailed or nuanced opinion you’re likely to get less blow back.

I watch it with my kids. They love it, the cheese doesn’t bother me through their eyes.

Blessing and a curse…

Yes it was a bit of work to find niche subjects in the old days but it was all out there if you really cared. Having communities too accessible to casuals is both a blessing and a curse. Constant conversation is a great time killer but the quality of those conversations really suffers.

It is really a fine line between the two and I think federated social media could actually pull it off. Reddit has been shit for a long time and the API fallout, even though it had no direct impact on the way I used Reddit, was just the last straw. No point trying to save a dieing animal, sometimes the most difficult decision is for the best.

Niche community boards existed before Reddit, they will exist after Reddit.

I had to read it twice because I misinterpreted it the same way.

Their attitude changed towards open source because it doesn’t work!

That “it” could be interpreted either as ‘open source’ or ‘EEE’ from the previous sentence.