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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

it's more likely for that text to be seen by others because there aren't 2.000 other commenters but maybe 20.

This specific issue is why I pivoted to mostly lurking Reddit โ€“ outside of the hobby subs, discussion of any relevance to the content posted is pretty hard to come by (like fucking askreddit??????how is that such a circlejerk of one-liners)

I have to either dig 10+ replies in to a tangentially related top-level comment, or scroll past the shit jokes and hope there's something before hitting downvoted troll bedrock. This could well be a scale issue that we'll see in time, but hopefully enough people can keep setting up and joining instances to mitigate it