On the bright side, at least I have drama content to read. Maybe this thing can replace reddit... lol
Long term growth is necessary to keep any online community alive. Not necessarily accelerating growth. But if a community has less members coming in than the ones who leave over time it will eventually die, no matter what platform it's on.
From what (admittedly little) I know about the fediverse I can't see this being a good decision for Bee's long term growth. I respect their stance but I simply think there isn't enough content for small groups to sustain yet. Reddit thrives on a newsfeed style experience, if there's nothing to scroll people won't stay. The only reason I'm here is because I can scroll everything in all, which is how I found this post, for example.
I'm mainly just scrolling through the "all" section and using various tabs like active, new etc if it gets repetitive. That's how I found this thread.
Browsing for new content and communities is so much better here. Like, incredibly so. I don't know if it's just the lack of repost and karma bots or what but the quality of content is so much higher.
Rumble blew up when youtube started kicking covid disinfo off the platform. It's like parler but for videos.
Opposite for me here, all feds I've looked at are a tad slow for me and take a bit more performance. probably related to my 14 year old pc lol. old.reddit definitely worked very well on legacy tech.
Loving the community here so far though... It feels a lot more welcoming here than reddit :~)
Oh sure thing, my mistake. Thanks for the tip!