• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s always sad when you go to a community for something you like, something that’s widely popular, and see the newest post is 2 days old.

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        Especially when you’re the only one posting. At some point, it feels a little like you’re spamming the sub, even if you are the only one keeping it active.

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        Hard truth? Reddit conditioned me to NOT participate.

        Nearly time I wanted to discuss something or ask something important to me, my posts were deleted by mods. The few times posts would stay was because they were meme shitposts of easily digestible image content: scroll and move along. Any actual discussion was verboten.

        /r/mk mods were particularly awful. Fuck those guys.

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      The “mall” analogy works for Reddit because the point of it existing is to buy things there. Lemmy instances and communities only exist because people want to make space for conversation. If spaces are empty, I see that as a sign that someone, somewhere cares so much that they will happy build the space and wait for others to arrive.